PREFACE. IT is difficult to tell the story of Carthage, because one has to tell it without sympathy, and from the standpoint of her enemies. It is a great advantage, on the other hand, that the materials are of a manageable amount, and that a fairly complete narrative may be given within a moderate compass. I have made it a rule to go to the original autharities. At the same time I have to express my obligations to several modern works, to the geographical treatises of Heeren, the histories of Grote, Arnold and Mommsen, Mr. Bosworth Smiths admirable Carthage and the Carthaginians, and the learned ancl exhaustive History of Art in Phoenicia and its Dependencies, by Messieurs Gcorges Perrot and Charles Chipiez, as translated and edited by Mr. Walter Armstrong. To this last I am indetted for most of the illustrations of this book. I have had much help also from Mr. W. V. Capes. I have not thought it necessary to discuss the critical questions which have been raised about the Duilian column. The inscription, as it at present exists, may be supposed to bear a general, though not a faithful, resemblance to the original....