IN BLACK AND WHITE. The First Invasion of Britain by Julius Cæsar, The Invasion of the Emperor Claudius, The Emperor Hadrian visiting a Pottery in Britain, Columba preaching, A Great Viking, The Death of Harold, Hereward yielding to William, “God Wills It!” The First Prince of Wales, The Battle of Bannockburn, The Morning of Agincourt, The Coronation of Charles the Seventh at Rheims, Joan of Arc storming the “Bulwark” (Orleans), Death of Warwick, Richard the Third at the Battle of Bosworth, Trial of Queen Catherine, Henry the Eighth, At Sea. “Farewell, France!” Escape of Mary Queen of Scots from Loch Leven Castle, Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury Fort, The Boyhood of Sir Walter Raleigh, Cromwell at Marston Moor, Jane Lane helping Prince Charles to escape, Rescued from the Plague, London, 1665, The Arrest of Alice Lisle, Bonnie Prince Charlie, After Culloden: Royalist Soldiers searching for Jacobite Fugitives, Clive at Bay, Death of Wolfe, Queen Victoria in her Coronation Robes, Queen Victoria at St. Paul’s, Edward the Seventh, [Illustration] Chapter I. BRITAIN BEFORE THE ROMAN CONQUEST. THE PHŒNICIANS. “_The bond of commerce was designed_ _To associate all the branches of mankind;_ _And if a boundless plenty be the robe,_ _Trade is the golden girdle of the globe._” THE procession advances. Who, you ask, are these swarthy, Jewish-looking men leading the way? They are Phœnicians, the first visitors from civilized shores to our island. These restless wanderers are keen traders, who have sped their barks from distant Tyre or Carthage in quest of merchandise. One of them, urging his ship northward towards this fabled happy land of the western ocean, has sighted through the clearing mists the distant line of an unknown shore. He has landed and come into touch with the natives. Spreading out his tempting treasures of purple cloth, glittering trinkets, and gleaming glass to the astonished gaze of the Britons, he has begun to barter his wares for the native products of the isle.