The National Alumni
COPYRIGHT, 1905,
By THE NATIONAL ALUMNI
CONTENTS
VOLUME I
[General Introduction]
[An Outline Narrative of the Great Events]
CHARLES F. HORNE
[Dawn of Civilization (B.C. 5867)]
G.C.C. MASPERO
[Compilation of the Earliest Code (B.C. 2250)]
HAMMURABI
[Theseus Founds Athens (B.C. 1235)]
PLUTARCH
[The Formation of the Castes in India (B.C. 1200)]
GUSTAVE LE BON
W.W. HUNTER
[Fall of Troy (B.C. 1184)]
GEORGE GROTE
[Accession of Solomon]
[Building of the Temple at Jerusalem (B.C. 1017)]
HENRY HART MILMAN
[Rise and Fall of Assyria]
[Destruction of Nineveh (B.C. 789)]
F. LENORMANT AND E. CHEVALLIER
[The Foundation of Rome (B.C. 753)]
BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR
[Prince Jimmu Founds Japan's Capital (B.C. 660)]
SIR EDWARD REED
THE "NEHONGI"
[The Foundation of Buddhism (B.C. 623)]
THOMAS W. RHYS-DAVIDS
[Pythian Games at Delphi (B.C. 585)]
GEORGE GROTE
[Solon's Early Greek Legislation (B.C. 594)]
GEORGE GROTE
[Conquests of Cyrus the Great (B.C. 550)]
GEORGE GROTE
[Rise of Confucius, the Chinese Sage (B.C. 550)]
R.K. DOUGLAS
[Rome Established as a Republic]
[Institution of Tribunes (B.C. 510-494)]
HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL
[The Battle of Marathon (B.C. 490)]
SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY
[Invasion of Greece by Persians under Xerxes]
[Defence of Thermopylæ (B.C. 480)]
HERODOTUS
[Universal Chronology (B.C. 5867-451)]
JOHN RUDD
[The Rosetta Stone]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME I
[Sphinx, with Great and Second Pyramids of Gizeh (page 12)]
[From an original photograph.]
[The Rosetta Stone, and Description]
[Facsimile of original in the British Museum.]
[Painting by Jacques L. David.]