This famous book is a general history of the world from the beginning of things to the present, which a child as young as nine years of age can read and understand without any supplementary helps or explanations. It presents the history of mankind as a good storyteller presents his plot, so that young readers will see history as a flow of events, not a miscellaneous collection of isolated, unrelated facts. It characterizes men and their times so that they stand out sharp and clear in the memory.

In the more than twenty years since its original edition was published, this splendid work has come to be recognized as the best possible introduction to world history for young people. It has been read by many thousands of girls and boys—and their elders—in school and in the home. It is now presented in a new edition, revised throughout and with new chapters which carry the story of mankind up to the present time. These new sections are the work of E. G. Huey, who was long associated with the late Mr. Hillyer at his famous Calvert School.

From the dust jacket of the 1952 revised edition