Description:  This volume was written by the author in answer to the requests of hundreds of children for more stories like the ones they had enjoyed in Fifty Famous Stories Retold. This volume includes stories of historical events, scientific discoveries, and legendary heroes. The richer vocabulary and more complicated plot elements in these stories gradually accustom children to following a longer narrative.

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1. Columbus and the Egg
2. "Upon a Peak in Darien"—First Story 
3. "Upon a Peak in Darien"—Second Story 
4. The Fountain of Youth 
5. "Eureka!" 
6. Galileo and the Lamps 
7. Sir Isaac Newton and the Apple 
8. The First Printer 
9. John Gutenberg and the Voices 
10. James Watt and the Teakettle 
11. Dr. Johnson and His Father 
12. Webster and the Woodchuck 
13. Friar Bacon and the Brazen Head 
14. "As Rich as Crœsus" 
15. The Gordian Knot 

16. Why Alexander Wept
17. King Richard and Blondel 
18. King John and Prince Arthur 
19. King John and the Magna Charta 
20. Frederick Barbarossa 
21. The Man in the Iron Mask 
22. The Fall of Troy 
23. Penelope's Web 
24. How Rome Was Founded 
25. How Decius Mus Saved Rome 
26. "Delenda est Carthago" 
27. Hannibal, the Hero of Carthage 
28. Crossing the Rubicon 
29. The White-headed Zal 
30. Peter Klaus the Goatherd

Stories from the History of Rome

by Mrs. Beesly