[Illustration: _THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI._ Reproduced for our Members through the courtesy of The Newberry Library, Chicago This illuminated manuscript represents the work done by French monks in the early part of the fourteenth century. The border, containing as it does many grotesque figures scattered through its foliage, indicates this, as also the style of the faces in the miniature work. This is taken from one of the many "Book of Hours" and was the page used for the "Sext Hour," a full description of illuminated manuscript will be found Part IX, page 101. "COPYRIGHT BY THE DELPHIAN SOCIETY, CHICAGO"] THE WORLD'S PROGRESS WITH ILLUSTRATIVE TEXTS FROM MASTERPIECES OF EGYPTIAN, HEBREW, GREEK, LATIN, MODERN EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LITERATURE FULLY ILLUSTRATED EDITORIAL STAFF VERY REV. J. K. BRENNAN Missouri GISLE BOTHME, M.A. University of Minnesota CHAS. H. CAFFIN New York JAMES A. CRAIG, M.A., B.D., PH.D. University of Michigan MRS. SARAH PLATT DECKER Colorado ALCÉE FORTIER, D.LT. Tulane University ROSWELL FIELD Chicago BRUCE G. KINGSLEY Royal College of Organists, England D. D. LUCKENBILL, A.B., PH.D. University of Chicago KENNETH MCKENZIE, PH.D. Yale University FRANK B. MARSH, PH.D. University of Texas DR. HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE New York W. A. MERRILL, PH.D., L.H.D. University of California T. M. PARROTT, PH.D. Princeton University GRANT SHOWERMAN, PH.D. University of Wisconsin H. C. TOLMAN, PH.D., D.D. Vanderbilt University I. E. WING, M.A. Michigan VOL. I THE DELPHIAN SOCIETY COPYRIGHT 1913 BY THE DELPHIAN SOCIETY CHICAGO COMPOSITION, ELECTROTYPING, PRINTING AND BINDING BY THE W. B. CONKEY COMPANY HAMMOND, INDIANA TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I. PAGE The Delphian Course of Reading VIII Prehistoric Man; Customs and Occupations. Dawn of Civilization XIV EGYPT. Prefatory Chapter 13 CHAPTER I. Its Antiquity; Story of Joseph, Physical Geography, Prehistoric Egypt 20 CHAPTER II. Sources of Egyptian History; Herodotus' Account of Egypt 31 CHAPTER III. Pyramid Age; Early Egyptian Kings; Construction of Pyramids 37 CHAPTER IV. Age of Darkness; Middle Empire; Reigns of Amenemhet I. and III.; Description of Labyrinth 43