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Contributors, and Editorial Revisers.
- Prof. Adolf Erman, University of Berlin.
- Prof. Joseph Halévy, College of France.
- Prof. Thomas K. Cheyne, Oxford University.
- Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, University of Michigan.
- Prof. David H. Müller, University of Vienna.
- Prof. Alfred Rambaud, University of Paris.
- Capt. F. Brinkley, Tokio.
- Prof. Eduard Meyer, University of Berlin.
- Dr. James T. Shotwell, Columbia University.
- Prof. Theodor Nöldeke, University of Strasburg.
- Prof. Albert B. Hart, Harvard University.
- Dr. Paul Brönnle, Royal Asiatic Society.
- Dr. James Gairdner, C.B., London.
- Prof. Ulrich von Wilamowitz Möllendorff, University of Berlin.
- Prof. H. Marczali, University of Budapest.
- Dr. G. W. Botsford, Columbia University.
- Prof. Julius Wellhausen, University of Göttingen.
- Prof. Franz R. von Krones, University of Graz.
- Prof. Wilhelm Soltau, Zabern University.
- Prof. R. W. Rogers, Drew Theological Seminary.
- Prof. A. Vambéry, University of Budapest.
- Prof. Otto Hirschfeld, University of Berlin.
- Dr. Frederick Robertson Jones, Bryn Mawr College.
- Baron Bernardo di San Severino Quaranta, London.
- Dr. John P. Peters, New York.
- Prof. Adolph Harnack, University of Berlin.
- Dr. S. Rappoport, School of Oriental Languages, Paris.
- Prof. Hermann Diels, University of Berlin.
- Prof. C. W. C. Oman, Oxford University.
- Prof. W. L. Fleming, University of West Virginia.
- Prof. I. Goldziher, University of Vienna.
- Prof. R. Koser, University of Berlin.
KEY TO THE AUTHORITIES.
The Historians’ History of the World is in one sense of the word a compilation, but it is a compilation of unique character. The main bulk of the work is made up of direct quotations from authorities, cited with scrupulous exactness; but so novel is our method of handling this material that the casual reader might scan chapter after chapter without suspecting that the whole is not the work of a single writer. Yet every quotation, whatever its length, is explicitly credited to its source, and the reader who wishes to know the names of the authors and works quoted may constantly satisfy his curiosity without the slightest difficulty. The key to identification of authorities is found in the unobtrusive reference letters (called by the printer “superior letters”), such as b, c, d, which are scattered through the text. These reference letters refer in each case to a “Brief Reference-List” at the end of the book, where, chapter by chapter, author and work are named. Should any work be quoted more than once in a chapter, the same reference letter is used to identify that work in each case.