"If we had the making of the English Educational Code for Elementary Schools, we should insert a regulation that all boys and girls should spend two whole years on these four books, and on nothing else."--_=Bradford Observer=_. "The books are graded with remarkable skill."--_=Glasgow Herald.=_ ="Absolutely the best set of all the history readers that have hitherto been published."--=_=The Guardian.=_ THE STORY OF THE WORLD. FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. (In Five Books.) By M. B. SYNGE. _With Coloured Frontispieces and numerous Illustrations by E. M. Synge, A.R.E., and Maps._ BOOK I. ON THE SHORES OF THE GREAT SEA. 1s. 4d. Colonial Edition, 1s. 6d. The Home of Abraham--Into Africa--Joseph in Egypt--The Children of Israel--The First Merchant Fleet--Hiram, King of Tyre--King Solomon's Fleet--The Story of Carthage--The Story of the Argonauts--The Siege of Troy--The Adventures of Ulysses--The Dawn of History--The Fall of Tyre--The Rise of Carthage--Hanno's Adventures--The Battle of Marathon--King Ahasuerus--How Leonidas kept the Pass--Some Greek Colonies--Athens--The Death of Socrates--The Story of Romulus and Remus--How Horatius kept the Bridge--Coriolanus--Alexander the Great--King of Macedonia--The Conquest of India--Alexander's City--The Roman Fleet--The Adventures of Hannibal--The End of Carthage--The Triumph of Rome--Julius Cæsar--The Flight of Pompey--The Death of Cæsar. BOOK II. THE DISCOVERY OF NEW WORLDS. 1s. 6d. The Roman World--The Tragedy of Nero--The Great Fire in Rome--The Destruction of Pompeii--Marcus Aurelius--Christians to the Lions--A New Rome--The Armies of the North--King Arthur and his Knights--How the Northmen conquered England--The First Crusade--Frederick Barbarossa--The Third Crusade--The Days of Chivalry--Queen of the Adriatic--The Story of Marco Polo--Dante's Great Poem--The Maid of Orleans--Prince Henry, the Sailor--The Invention of Printing--Vasco da Gama's Great Voyage--Golden Goa--Christopher Columbus--The Last of the Moors--Discovery of the New World--Columbus in Chains--Discovery of the Pacific--Magellan's Straits--Montezuma--Siege and Fall of Mexico--Conquest of Peru--A Great Awakening. BOOK III. THE AWAKENING OF EUROPE. 1s. 6d. Colonial Edition, 1s. 9d.