Excerpt from The Story of the Greatest Nations, And, the World's Famous Events Facing each picture is a brief description, telling its story and at the same time carrying onward the general history to the next illustration. Thus the picture descriptions form by themselves an outline account Of the world, complete, yet SO simple, SO vivid, SO emphasized by the pictures, that the merest child can follow it all with ease. Accompanying this runs the much fuller narrative Of the text, told clearly, accurately, with a careful avoidance Of technical phrases and labored explanations, yet with an earnest insistence on history's larger meanings, the lessons which it carries for us all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.