THIS little volume is an experiment, but it is an experiment which I may say has already succeeded.

Its object is to show that clear, accurate, and scientific views of history, or indeed of any subject, may be easily given to children from the very first.

In truth the more rigidly accurate and scien- tific a statement is, the more easy it is for a child to take it in.

The difficulty does not lie with the child, who has simply to learn, but with the teacher who often has to un- learn.

A child finds no difficulty in attaching a correct and definite meaning to a word from the first time of his using it ; the difficulty lies wholly with the teacher, who has often been used to a confused and unscientific way of using words, which he finds it hard to leave off.