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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.) Egypt--Rameses Sesostris Sampson
Low & Co.
ZOROASTER -- F. Marion Crawford Zoroaster, the Persian Religious
Reformer Macmillan & Co.
AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS -- Georg Ebers (trans.) Egypt--Amasis
and Cambyses, 6th Century B. C. Sampson Low & Co.
THE FALL OF ATHENS -- A. J. Church Peloponnesian War Seeley &
Co.
A YOUNG MACEDONIAN -- A. J. Church Alexander the Great
Seeley & Co.
SALAMMBO -- Gustave Flaubert (trans.) Rome versus Carthage G. P.
Putnam's Sons, and Grant Richards
THE LION'S BROOD -- Duffield Osborne Rome versus Carthage W.
Heinemann
LORDS OF THE WORLD -- A. J. Church Rome versus Carthage.
Blackie & Son
THE SISTERS -- Georg Ehers (trans.) Egypt--Ptolemy Philometer, and
Euergetes Sampson Low & Co.
THE HAMMER -- A. J. Church and R. Seeley Maccabaean Times
Seeley & Co.
DEBORAH -- J. M. Ludlow Maccabaean Times J. Nisbet & Co.
HELON'S PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM -- F. Strauss (trans.)
Judaism in the Century preceding Christ J. Mawman, London, 1824
PRUSIAS -- Ernst Eckstein (trans.) The Slave Revolt under Spartacus.

Trubner & Co.
TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO -- A. J. Church Rome--Spartacus
and Mithridates Blackie & Son
WOE TO THE CONQUERED -- Alfred Clark Roman Life, B. C.
73-71 Sampson Low & Co.
A FRIEND OF CAESAR -- W. S. Davis Pompey and Caesar
Macmillan & Co.
CLEOPATRA -- Georg Ebers (trans.) Latter Years of Cleopatra.
Sampson Low & Co.

FIRST CENTURY A.D.
NEAERA -- John W. Graham Rome under Tiberius (A. D. 26)
Macmillan & Co.
PHILOCHRISTUS -- Anonymous Memoirs of a Disciple of Christ
Macmillan & Co.
BEN HUR -- Lew Wallace Rome in the time of Christ Harper &
Brothers, and others
TARRY THOU TILL I COME (Salathiel) -- G. Croly Judaism and
Christianity (the early struggle) Funk & Wagnalls Co.
AS OTHERS SAW HIM -- Anonymous Early Christianity (A. D. 54)
W. Heinemann
BERIC THE BRITON -- G. A. Henty Roman Invasion of Britain
Blackie & Son
ONESIMUS-- Anonymous Memoirs of a Disciple of Paul Macmillan
& Co.

QUO VADIS? -- H. Sienkiewicz (trans.) Rome in the time of Nero J.
M. Dent & Co.
NERO -- Ernst Eckstein (trans.) Rome in the time of Nero Trubner &
Co.
THE BURNING OF ROME -- A. J. Church Rome in the time of Nero
Seeley & Co.
ACTE -- Hugh Westbury Rome in the time of Nero Bentley
DARKNESS AND DAWN -- Dean Farrar Persecutions under Nero
Longmans, Green, & Co.
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII -- Lytton Time of Vespasian Geo.
Routledge & Sons
THE GLADIATORS -- G. J. Whyte Melville Fall of Jerusalem W.
Thacker & Co. and Ward, Lock, & Co.
DOMITIA -- S. Baring-Gould Time of Domitian Methuen & Co.
MASTERS OF THE WORLD -- Mary A. M. Hoppus Time of
Domitian Bentley, 1888
QUINTUS CLAUDIUS -- Ernst Eckstein (trans.) Time of Domitian W.
S. Gottsberger

SECOND CENTURY.
VALERIUS -- J. G. Lockhart Time of Trajan (Rome) W. Blackwood &
Sons
TO THE LIONS -- A. J. Church Christians and the Younger Pliny
Seeley & Co.
ANTINOUS -- George Taylor (trans.) Time of Hadrian William S.

Gottsberger, New York, 1882
MARIUS THE EPICUREAN -- W. Pater Time of Marcus Aurelius
Macmillan & Co.

THIRD CENTURY.
PER ASPERA -- Georg Ebers (trans.) Alexandria in time of Emperor
Caracalla Sampson Low & Co.
PERPETUA -- S. Baring-Gould Nimes--beginning of Third Century
Isbister & Co.
THE CAMP ON THE SEVERN -- A. D. Crake Persecution in Britain
Mowbray & Co.
THE VILLA OF CLAUDIUS -- E. L. Cutts Roman occupation of
Britain Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
CALLISTA -- J. H. Newman North Africa persecutions Longmans,
Green, & Co.
*THE EPICUREAN -- Thomas Moore Worship of Isis (Egypt)
Downey & Co.
* This tale, it must be admitted, is given a place mainly on account of
its literary interest; as a historical romance it has been very severely
criticised.
AURELIAN -- W. Ware Rome--late Third Century Warne & Co.
THE LAST DAYS AND FALL OF PALMYRA (ZENOBIA) -- W.
Ware Zenobia and Longinus Cassell & Co. ("Red Library," 1890)

FOURTH CENTURY.

HOMO SUM -- Georg Ebers (trans.) Christians in Arabia Sampson
Low & Co.
*OUR FOREFATHERS (Die Ahnen) -- Gustav Freytag (trans.)
Germany A. D. 357 Asher & Co., 1873
* The collective title of a series in which the history of a family is made
to illustrate successive stages of German Civilisation. The English
translation does not extend beyond the first two stories, dealing with
the years 357 and 724 respectively; the remaining four stories
(published by Hirzel of Leipsic, 1874-80) depict German life in 1226,
1519, 1647, and 1805.
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