The Ancient World

A review of the history of the earlier ages will probably not be unacceptable to the readers of the present day. The subject is an interesting one, and can never cease to be instructive. We are all more or less anxious to know who those ancient nations were who lived and flourished when Europe was covered with forests and sprinkled over with savages; how they were connected with each other; in what characteristic peculiarities they agreed, and in what they differed; what were their several pursuits, and what their respective and relative attainments.