"The words used are simple, and considerable information is given about the countries in a pleasant way. Excellent maps line the covers, and the histories are brightly and accurately illustrated."--_Springfield Republican._ "We know of no other books which treat the same subjects in such a way as to interest a juvenile audience."--_Philadelphia Telegraph._ "The broad pages, printed in very large, open type, the beautiful and appropriate illustrations, make these books the best, on _historical subjects_, in the language."--_New England Journal of Education._ "They are profusely and well illustrated, with brilliantly illuminated covers, and are strongly bound, as books which are certain to be as largely read as these should be."-_New York Mail and Express._ GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, 9 LAFAYETTE PLACE, NEW YORK. * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: As the reader will have noted, words that are more than one syllable are hyphenated. Frequently the printer made an mistake and forgot to hyphenate all or part of a word. This has been corrected where found. Obvious punctuation errors have been repaired. Some times high priest was hyphenated and sometimes it was two words. This was retained. Page 78, "Ja-cob" changed to "Jo-seph" (And Jo-seph went to Do-than) Page 100, "se" changed to "sent" (food that God had sent) Page 109, "the the" changed to "the" (do the king's will) Page 164, "plead" changed to "pled" (Da-vid pled so hard) Page 178, "wo-men" changed to "wo-man" (I and this wo-man live in) Page 342, "Ce-ser" changed to "Ce-sar" (please the Ce-sar of Rome)