we excluded the mythical or semi-romantic tales of our early history. It
is as needful to a person of education to be acquainted with them, as
if they were certain facts, and we shall content ourselves with marking
what come to us on doubtful authority.



CAMEO I.

ROLF GANGER.
(900-932.)

_Kings of England_.
901. Edward the Elder.
924. Athelstan.

_Kings of France_.
898. Charles
the Simple.
923. Rudolf.

_Emperors of Germany_.
899. Ludwig IV.
912. Konrad.


If we try to look back at history nine hundred years, we shall see a
world very unlike that in which we are now moving. Midway from the birth
of our Lord to the present era, the great struggle between the new and
old had not subsided, and the great European world of civilized nations