s a better and more general historical education, and all orders
will receive their immediate attention.

AN HISTORICAL READING LIST FOR CHILDREN

"Don't stop (I say) to explain that Hebe was (for once) the legitimate
daughter of Zeus and, as such, had the privilege to draw wine for the
Gods. Don't even stop, just yet, to explain who the Gods were. Don't
discourse on amber, otherwise ambergris; don't explain that 'gris'
in this connection doesn't mean 'grease'; don't trace it through
the Arabic into Noah's Ark; don't prove its electrical properties
by tearing up paper into little bits and attracting them with
the mouth-piece of your pipe rubbed on your sleeve. Don't insist
philologically that when every shepherd 'tells his tale' he is not
relating an anecdote but simply keeping 'tally' of his flock. Just go
on reading, as well as you can, and be sure that when the children get
the thrill of the story, for which you wait, they will be asking more
questions, and pertinent ones, than you are able to answer."--("On the
Art of Reading for Children," by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.)

The Days Before History

"How the Present Came From the Past," by Margaret E. Wells, Volume I.

How earliest man learned to make tools and build homes, and the
stories he told about the fire-makers, the sun and the frost. A simple,
illustrated account of these things for children. "The Story of Ab," by
Stanley Waterloo.

A romantic tale of the time of the cave-man. (A much simplified edition
of this for little children is "Ab, the Cave Man" adapted by William
Lewis Nida.) "Industrial and Social History Series," by Katharine E.
Dopp.

"The Tree Dwellers--The Age of Fear"

"The Early Cave-Men--The Age of Combat"

"The Later Cave-Men--The Age of the Chase"

"The Early Sea People--First Steps in the Conquest of the Waters"

"The Tent-Dwellers--The Early Fishing Men"

Very simple stories of the way in which man learned how to make pottery,
how to weave and spin, and how to conquer land and sea.

"Ancient Man," written and drawn and done into colour by Hendrik
Willem van Loon.

The beginning of civilisations pictured and written in a new and
fascinating fashion, with story maps showing exactly what happened in
all parts of the world. A book for children of all ages.

The Dawn of History

"The Civilisation of the Ancient Egyptians," by A. Bothwell Gosse.

"No country possesses so many wonders, and has such a number of wor