A BRIEF HISTORY OF ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL, AND WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR MONUMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, F42 8665 Edue T608, 90, &io Harvard University, TRANSFERRED TO MAI 1921 BARNES BRIEF HISTORY SERIES. 12MO. ILLUSTRATED. BY JOEL DORMAN STEELE AND ESTHER B. STEELE. BARNES BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, BARNES BRIEF HISTORY OF FRANCE, FOR THE USE BARNES BRIEF HISTORY OF GREECE, WITH SELECT .75 BARNES BRIEF HISTORY OF ROME, WITH SELECT $1.00 BARNES BRIEF HISTORY OF ANCIENT PEOPLES, $1.00 BARNES BRIEF HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND $1.00 THE HE plan of the Barnes Brief History Series has been thoroughly tested in the books already issued, and their extended use and approval are evidence of its general excellence. In this work the political history, which occupies most if not all of the ordinary school-text, is condensed to the salient and essential facts, in order to give room for some account of the literature, religion, architecture, character, and habits of the different nations. Surely, it is as important to know something about Plato as all about Cæsar; to learn how the ancients wrote their books as how they fought their battles; and to study the virtues of the old Germans and the dawn of our own customs in English home-life, as to trace the petty squabbles of Alexander's successors or the intricacies of the Wars of the Roses. The general divisions on "Civilization" and "Manners and Customs" were prepared by MRS. J. DORMAN STEELE. The chapters on "Manners and Customs" and "Scenes in Real Life" represent the people of history as men and women subject to the same wants, hopes, and fears as ourselves, and so bring the distant past near to us. The "Scenes," which are intended only for reading, are the result of a careful study of the monuments in foreign museums, of the ruins themselves, and of the latest authorities on the do |