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carry on unbroken the chain of history-they are unconnected links which the childish mind does not unite. The more voluminous works are generally written in terms too abstruse for a very youthful comprehension, and contain circumstantial accounts of many events, always unnecessary, and often improper for children to be acquainted with. In the hope of, in some measure, supplying this deficiency to the children under the writer's own superintendence, she was induced to put the following pages together, and the possibility that what has been found useful to a few may become more extensively beneficial, prompts her to submit them to the public eye.

CHAPTER VII.

From the expulsion of the Gauls by Camillus to the

retreat of Pyrrhus from Italy

CHAPTER VIII.

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From the commencement to the termination of the

first Punic War

CHAPTER IX.

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From the termination of the first Punic War to the
capture of Syracuse by Marcellus

CHAPTER X.

.. 120

From the consulship of Scipio to the destruction of

Carthage

CHAPTER XI.

130

From the death of the Gracchi to the death of Sylla.. 139

CHAPTER XII.

From the rise of Pompey to the crossing the Rubicon

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THE RUBICON.

CHAPTER I.

"MAMMA," said Philip Stratton, looking up with a puzzled, anxious countenance, as his mother entered the room, where he was sitting with his sister, seemingly engaged in studying a map of Italy, which, with several thick volumes, lay upon a table before them. "Mamma, I hope you are coming to sit here, as I am very much in want of your assistance."

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"I am very willing to give you my assistance, my dear boy," replied Mrs. Stratton, "but it must be at another time, for your papa is now ready to hear your Latin lessons."

"Then Anne, as I must be off," said Philip, jumping up, "will you tell mamma all our diffi

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