Excerpt from Recreations in Ancient Fields
In preparing these recreations no effort has been made to exhaust any subject by entering into minute details; nor for the sake of completeness to furnish a bare catalogue of names, dates, and bald statistics.
An exhaustive treatise upon any topic usually exhausts the reader's patience, while a long list of names and numbers is likely to be no more fascinating and profitable for general reading than would be a common city directory.
"That which interests is remembered," was a favorite saying of the great teacher, Horace Mann. Bearing this truth in mind, the author of the following chapters has endeavored to seize and dwell upon a few salient facts and features in different countries, and to talk about some of the celebrated characters of antiquity long enough to produce an impression upon the memory and to kindle a desire for farther investigation. The work is now submitted to the public with the hope that it may find a welcome among intelligent readers.
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