CHAPTER I. Britain

II. The Camps of the Legions III. The Barbarian at the Walls IV. The Division of the Empire V. The Barbarian breaking through VI. How Britain became England VII. The Passing of the Barbarian VIII. The Pope IX. How England became Christian X. The Saracens XI. The Franks and the Feudal System XII. How the People Lived XIII. How the People Lived--_continued_ XIV. The Settlements Of The Sea-Rovers XV. The Crusades XVI. The Slavs in Eastern Europe XVII. Normans and Angevins XVIII. The Strength and the Weakness of Rome XIX. The Moslems in Spain XX. The Plantagenets in France and England XXI. England, France, and Burgundy XXII. The Teuton and the Slav XXIII. The Turks in Europe XXIV. The New Dawn Index

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Hadrian's Wall To-Day .... _Frontispiece_ Stonehenge The Iron Crown of the Lombards Rome and St. Peter's Whitby Abbey Charlemagne's Sword Canterbury An Anglo-Saxon Mansion An Anglo-Saxon Dinner Party A Viking Ship Norman Gateway A Crusader A Knight Templar A Norman Household A Joust between Knights Cœur-de-Lion's Prison Knight in Chain Armour The Giralda, Seville Byzantine Architecture Gothic Architecture Constantinople Genoa Columbus Ship of Columbus' Time

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