Ex-German Ambassador to China and Minister in Japan Francis H. Skrine Traveller and Explorer; late of the Indian Civil Service Holland Thompson, Ph. D. The College of the City of New York. Dr. Archdall Reid, F.R.S.E. Author of “The Principles of Heredity” Arthur Diósy Founder of the Japan Society; Author of “The New Far East” Dr. K. G. Brandis Director of the University Libraries at Jena Thomas Hodgkin, D.C.L. Author of “A Political History of England” Professor Joseph Kohler Professor of Jurisprudence at Berlin University Angus Hamilton Traveller and Correspondent in the Far East; Author of “Afghanistan” J. G. D. Campbell, M.A. Late Educational Adviser to the Government of Siam W. R. Carles, C.M.G. Geographer; late British Consul at Tientsin, China Professor Johannes Ranke Professor of Anthropology, Physiology, and Natural History at Munich W. S. Wallace, M. A. University of Toronto. Hon. Bernhard R. Wise Scholar of Queen’s College, Oxford; Ex-Attorney-General of New South Wales K. W. C. Davis, M.A. Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford CONTENTS OF VOLUME I THE SAURIAN AGE FRONTISPIECE FIRST GRAND DIVISION MAN AND THE UNIVERSE PAGE Editorial Introduction 1 Plan of the HISTORY 3 Plan of First Grand Division 6 A View across the Ages 7 Summary of World History 60 Chronology of 10,000 Years 61 Time-table of the Nations 74 Contemporary Figures in History 78 The Beginning of the Earth 79 Four Periods of the Earth’s Development 89 Geological Clock of the World’s Life 90 How Life became possible on Earth 91 Scene from the Prehistoric World Plate facing 96 Beginning of Life on the Earth 99 How Man obtained Mastery of the Earth 108 THE WORLD BEFORE HISTORY Prehistoric Man attacking Cave Bears Plate facing 114 The Wonderful Story of Drift Man 115 The Appearance of Man on the Earth 127 Life of Man in the Stone Age 132 Primitive Man in the Past and Present 145 The Home Life of Primitive Folk 164 When History was dawning 175 THE GREAT STEPS IN MAN’S DEVELOPMENT