AN ALPHABET
OF HISTORY

The Words by Wilbur D.·Nesbit
The Pictures by Ellsworth Young

Who frets about the mystery
Enshrouding all of history
On reading this will, maybe, see
We've made it plain as A, B, C.

Paul Elder and Company Publishers,
San Francisco

Table of Contents & List of Illustrations

ALEXANDER THE GREAT
BRUTUS
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
DIOGENES
EURIPIDES
FRANKLIN
GALILEI GALILEO
HIPPOCRATES
IAGO
JONSON
KIDD
LUCULLUS
METHUSELAH
NEWTON
OMAR
PEPYS
QUINTILIAN
RALEIGH
SHAKSPEARE
TELL
ULYSSES
VILLON
WATT
XANTIPPE
YVETOT
ZENOBIA

This book is a collection of 26 humorous and educational poems with accompanying illustrations about the same number of historical personages, be they actual, fictional, or mythical. The poems, although a hundred plus years old, make interesting and memorable introductions to the characters covered and would make a great teaching (and learning!) tool. All intend to be found within this site, under their appropriate nodes, beginning with "Iago,", as Othello is one of my favorite Shakespearean plays. The three to follow will be those without any writeups of any sort at the time of publication of this writeup: "Lucullus," "Yvetot," and "Zenobia." The rest will follow, in no particular order.

-- weroland

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

In their original form, the contents of this
book appeared in the Chicago Sunday Tribune,
which newspaper is hereby thanked for
the privilege of reproducing this Alphabet

Copyright, 1905
by Paul Elder and Company
San Francisco

The Tomoye Press
San Francisco

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39626

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