This book is an easy to read, short, concise, and yet informative history of the world which has been selected and edited by V. Henry Chadwick. Mr. Chadwick has always had a life-long passion for history. It is his desire to remind today's world of the historians of the past and their works. Horne's narrative accounts of the world's history cover the period from 5867 B.C. to the beginning of the 20th century. The narratives are gathered from a 22 volume set published in 1905 entitled "The Great Events by Famous Historians." Horne's works deserve to be published, read, and enjoyed once again.