an will arise who will bring the vessel safely
to port, and he shall be the hero of the ages.

AS IT EVER SHALL BE

"The more I think of the problems of our lives, the more I am persuaded
that we ought to choose Irony and Pity for our "assessors and judges"
as the ancient Egyptians called upon "the Goddess Isis and the Goddess
Nephtys" on behalf of their dead. "Irony and Pity" are both of good
counsel; the first with her "smiles" makes life agreeable; the other
sanctifies it with her tears." "The Irony which I invoke is no cruel
Deity. She mocks neither love nor beauty. She is gentle and kindly
disposed. Her mirth disarms and it is she who teaches us to laugh at
rogues and fools, whom but for her we might be so weak as to despise
and hate."

And with these wise words of a very great Frenchman I bid you farewell.
8 Barrow Street, New York. Saturday, June 26, xxi.

AN ANIMATED CHRONOLOGY, 500,000 B.C.--A.D. 1922

THE END

CONCERNING THE PICTURES

CONCERNING THE PICTURES OF THIS BOOK AND A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE
BIBLIOGRAPHY.

The day of the historical textbook without illustrations has gone.
Pictures and photographs of famous personages and equally famous
occurrences cover the pages of Breasted and Robinson and Beard. In this
volume the photographs have been omitted to make room for a series of
home-made drawings which represent ideas rather than events.

While the author lays no claim to great artistic excellence (being
possessed of a decided leaning towards drawing as a child, he was taught
to play the violin as a matter of discipline,) he prefers to make his
own maps and sketches because he knows exactly what he wants to say and
cannot possibly explain this meaning to his more proficient brethren in
the field of art. Besides, the pictures were all drawn for children and
their ideas of art are very different from those of their parents.

To all teachers the author would give this advice--let your boys and
girls draw their history after their own desire just as often as you
have a chance. You can show a class a photograph of a Greek temple or
a mediaeval castle and the class will dutifully say, "Yes, Ma'am," and
proceed to forget all about it. But make the Greek temple or the Roman
castle the centre of an event, tell the boys to make their own picture
of "the building of a temple," or "the storming of the castle," and they
will stay after school-hours to finish the job. Most children, before
t