W. R. Carles, C.M.G.
Geographer; late British Consul at Tientsin, China

Professor Johannes Ranke
Professor of Anthropology, Physiology, and Natural History at Munich

W. S. Wallace, M. A.
University of Toronto.

Hon. Bernhard R. Wise
Scholar of Queen’s College, Oxford; Ex-Attorney-General of New South Wales

K. W. C. Davis, M.A.
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I

THE SAURIAN AGE

[FRONTISPIECE]

[FIRST GRAND DIVISION]

[MAN AND THE UNIVERSE]

PAGE

Editorial Introduction

[1]

Plan of the HISTORY

[3]

Plan of First Grand Division

[6]

A View across the Ages

[7]

Summary of World History

[60]

Chronology of 10,000 Years

[61]

Time-table of the Nations

[74]

Contemporary Figures in History

[78]

The Beginning of the Earth

[79]

Four Periods of the Earth’s Development

[89]

Geological Clock of the World’s Life

[90]

How Life became possible on Earth

[91]

Scene from the Prehistoric World

[Plate facing 96]

Beginning of Life on the Earth

[99]

How Man obtained Mastery of the Earth

[108]

[THE WORLD BEFORE HISTORY]

Prehistoric Man attacking Cave Bears

[Plate facing 114]

The Wonderful Story of Drift Man

[115]

The Appearance of Man on the Earth

[127]

Life of Man in the Stone Age

[132]

Primitive Man in the Past and Present

[145]

The Home Life of Primitive Folk

[164]

When History was dawning

[175]

[THE GREAT STEPS IN MAN’S DEVELOPMENT]

The Material Progress of Mankind

[185]

Beginnings of Commerce

[Plate facing 192]

The Higher Progress of Mankind

[203]

[BIRTH OF CIVILISATION AND GROWTH OF RACES]

Seven Wonders of Ancient Civilisation

[225]

Rise of Civilisation in Egypt

[233]

Rise of Civilisation in Mesopotamia

[259]

Rise of Civilisation in Europe

[281]

The Triumph of Race

[299]

Alphabet of the World’s Races

[311]

Little Gallery of Races

[313]

Types of the Chief Races of Mankind

[349]

Ethnological Chart of the Human Race

[352]

[MAKING OF NATIONS AND THE INFLUENCE OF NATURE]

Birth and Growth of Nations

[353]

Land and Water and Greatness of Peoples

[377]

Environment and the Life of Nations

[387]

The Size and Power of Nations

[399]

The Future History of Man

[404]

[SECOND GRAND DIVISION]

[THE FAR EAST]

Map of the Far East

[406]

Plan of the Second Grand Division

[408]

Interest and Importance of the Far East

[409]

[JAPAN]

COUNTRY AND PEOPLE

Great Dates in Japan

[416]

The Empire of the Eastern Seas

[417]

Map of Japan

[432]

Qualities of the Japanese People

[433]

LIST OF SPECIAL PLATES IN THE BOOK OF HISTORY