1887. Contents: Once Upon a Time; How the Shepherds Began the City; How Corinth Gave Rome a New Dynasty; The Rise of the Commons; How a Proud King Fell; The Roman Runnymede; How the Heroes Fought for a Hundred Years; A Blast from Beyond the North Wind; How the Republic Overcame Its Neighbors; An African Sirocco; The New Pushes the Old-Wars and Conquests; A Futile Effort at Reform; Social and Civil Wars; The Master-Spirits of This Age; Progress of the Great Pompey; How the Triumvirs Came to Untimely Ends; How the Republic Became an Empire; Some Manners and Customs of the Roman People; The Roman Reading and Writing; and The Roman Republicans Serious and Gay.