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Preface

This book is a member of a group of six volumes devised on a novel plan for making possible, through the English language, some degree of culture in certain foreign languages, ancient and modern.

The general scope and method of the group have already, in an earlier issue, been sufficiently described. The particular purpose of the present volume is fully explained in the first chapter following.

To such readers as may chance to take up this book first in order we will simply, in repetition, say that two volumes of the series are devoted to those parts of Greek literature, and Latin, respectively, which are usually studied by candidates for entrance to college. These books both commence with sketches of the geography and the history pertaining to the peoples that produced the literatures, together with a summary and characterization of the literatures themselves.

Each volume of the six is designed to be perfectly intelligible by itself alone; but the four volumes dealing with Greek and Latin letters stand in such mutual relation that each will be read with greater advantage in connection with its fellows in the scries.

It is due that grateful acknowledgment be made of debt to Bishop J. 11. ViN( ent for his Important part in

the present series of volumes. The original idea of the series was his, not the writer's.

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