BY THE SAME AUTHOR. THE DAWN OF HISTORY. An Introduction to Pre-historic Study. 12mo =$1.25= OUTLINES OF PRIMITIVE BELIEF among the Indo-European Races. Crown 8vo. =2.50= THE DAWN OF HISTORY: _AN INTRODUCTION TO_ PRE-HISTORIC STUDY. EDITED BY C. F. KEARY, M.A., F.S.A. NEW EDITION. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS. 1902 THE CAXTON PRESS NEW YORK. PREFACE. The present edition of the _Dawn of History_ is a considerable enlargement upon the former one, as may be judged from the fact that the former, including the Appendix, contained only 231 pages, whereas the present edition contains 357. These enlargements have chiefly affected the first four chapters with the ninth and tenth, and, generally speaking, the chapters for which the editor is wholly responsible. He felt himself quite incapable of improving chapters eight, eleven, and thirteen, which can hardly fail to be recognized as the best in the volume; and, unhappily, the hand which wrote them--that of Annie Keary--is no longer able to revise or alter. Some slight corrections therefore have been made, in accordance with the advance of these branches of study during recent years, but nothing more. No more were needed, for (in the case of the chapters on writing, for example) further research has only tended to establish more firmly the conclusions here accepted. The chapters on early social life (vi., vii.), again, did not seem to the editor to require more than slight corrections. In the chapters dealing with religion and mythology, it was not to be expected that the writers could avoid treading upon controversial ground; but as almost every proposition upon these matters is disputed by some one, it was not possible to adopt the plan of putting forward only those facts and theories which may be considered as established. Some disputed points are discussed in the Appendix. Even on the subject of language the views of one (small) school of philologists had to be relegated in like manner to the Appendix.