may prove to have its uses. Considerable discrimination is
required--as I have already hinted--in the choice of suitable
books, and, as a help in this direction, I have made out (vide
"Suggested courses of Reading" at the end of this volume) two
special lists for Boys and Girls respectively, which will, I trust,
be found useful. If, besides being of help to teachers, my
recommendations should lead in any degree to further appreciation
of the great masters of Romance, the labour (by no means
inconsiderable) expended on this little compilation will be amply
rewarded.

J. N.

January, 1902.



NOTE--the order in which the books are placed is, on the whole,
according to the periods dealt with; occasionally the grouping
decided on has prevented absolute correctness in this respect.


PRE-CHRISTIAN ERA.


SARCHEDON -- G. J. Whyte Melville
Ancient Babylon and the Assyrians
W. Thacker & Co., and Ward, Lock, & Co.

UARDA -- Georg Ebers (trans.)