PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.

CONTENTS.

EGYPT.

CHAPTER I. THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE.

CHAPTER II. THE ANTIQUITY OF THE CIVILISATION IN THE VALLEY OF THE NILE.

CHAPTER III. THE RELIGION OF THE EGYPTIANS.

CHAPTER IV. THE KINGDOM OF MEMPHIS.

CHAPTER V. THE HYKSOS AND THE RESTORATION OF THE EGYPTIAN KINGDOM.

CHAPTER VI. THE HOUSE OF RAMSES.

CHAPTER VII. THE MONUMENTS OF THE HOUSE OF RAMSES.

CHAPTER VIII. LIFE AND MANNERS OF THE EGYPTIANS.

THE SEMITIC NATIONS.

CHAPTER I. THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF BABYLON.

CHAPTER II. THE RELIGION AND SCIENCE OF THE CHALDAEANS.

CHAPTER III. THE ART AND TRADE OF BABYLONIA.

CHAPTER IV. THE ARABS.

CHAPTER V. THE CANAANITES.

CHAPTER VI. THE RELIGIOUS RITES OF THE CANAANITES.

CHAPTER VII. THE ORIGIN AND DESCENT OF THE HEBREWS.

CHAPTER VIII. THE HEBREWS IN EGYPT.

CHAPTER IX. THE LIBERATION OF THE HEBREWS.

CHAPTER X. THE HEBREWS IN THE DESERT.

CHAPTER XI. THE HEBREW INVASION OF CANAAN.

CHAPTER XII. THE NATIONS OF ASIA MINOR.

THE HISTORY OF ROME, From the Earliest Time to the Period of its Decline. BY THEODOR MOMMSEN.

THE HISTORY OF GREECE. From the German of Professor Ernst Curtius. BY A. W. WARD, M.A.

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