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Excerpt from A Brief World History This volume has been plannedct-o furnish a brief survey of World History from the beginning down to the end of the year 1933. The needs of secondary schools and the lay reader have been steadily kept in mind. Details have been sacrificed for the sake of keeping the main movements con stantly in view. Each chapter is headed by an analysis of topics and the Index is rather full. The Study Helps at) the end offer abundant collateral reading. The publishers have been generous with maps and plans. It has been the aim to employ a simple and straightforward style. Grateful acknowledgments are due to Professor C. T. Currelly, Director of/the Royal Ontario Museum of Archae ology, who has generously furnished photo-graphs and also made numerous suggestions concerning the influence of arts and crafts upon the course of history; for example, the con tribution made by the introduction o-f chinaware to public health, pages 250 and 471. Professor G. A. Cornish, of the Ontario College of Education, very kindly loaned photo graphs from his magnificent collection. Mr. W. D. Gregory called my attention to the passage quoted from John Bright, page 610. Professor Walter N. Sage, of the University of British Columbia, was good enough to read the whole work in manuscript and make invaluable corrections and criti cisms. My son, Norman J. Dewitt, m.a., has assisted in various ways. It remains to express my appreciation of the unfailing courtesy of the president and staff of The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, and also their associated house, The Macmillan Company of New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.