The Pageant of Greece.

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1924. XI,436p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Original red gilt stamped cloth. Cloth mottled to front fore edge and a tiny bit to front joints. Head spine a bit damaged. Front joints with two wholes. Ex libris glued to paste-down endpaer. 'I have given in my first chapter some judgement on Greek thought and literature by famous men of letters. If there is any truth in them, no one interested in the achievements of the human mind should be content to pass through life without forming some idea of what the Greek achieved, and no education can be completed which ignores Hellenism. This book is intended for those who know no Greek, but wish to form some idea of its great writers and of what they wrote. It is meant for the ordinary educated reader, as well as for pupils who will never learn the language but need not be left in total ignorance of the literature and thought of Greece (...). It consists of selections from the greatest Greek writers, with such a sketch of their lives and works as may give an idea of what they were and did. (...) I have tried, as far as possible, to piece the passages together in a continuous whole, and, further, to trace the growth of Greek literature, and indicate the historical background in which it is set.'(R.W. LIVINGSTONE in the Preface, p.V).