A Child's History of the World by V. M. Hillyer - HTML preview

This page is not for you, boys and girls.
 It is for that old man or woman—twenty,
 thirty, or forty years old, who may peek
 into this book; and is what they would
 call the

PREFACE

To give the child some idea of what has gone on in the world before he arrived;

To take him out of his little self-centered, shut-in life, which looms so large because it is so close to his eyes;

To extend his horizon, broaden his view, and open up the vista down the ages past;

To acquaint him with some of the big events and great names and fix these in time and space as a basis for detailed study in the future;

To give him a chronological file with main guides, into which he can fit in its proper place all his further historical study—

Is the purpose of this first SURVEY OF THE WORLD’S HISTORY.