LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| Life in the Early Palæozoic | 11 |
| Time-chart from Earliest Life to 40,000,000 Years Ago | 14 |
| Life in the Later Palæozoic Age | 19 |
| Australian Lung Fish | 26 |
| Some Reptiles of the Late Palæozoic Age | 27 |
| Astronomical Variations Affecting Climate | 33 |
| Some Mesozoic Reptiles | 40 |
| Later Mesozoic Reptiles | 42 |
| Pterodactyls and Archæopteryx | 45 |
| Hesperornis | 48 |
| Some Oligocene Mammals | 53 |
| Miocene Mammals | 58 |
| Time-diagram of the Glacial Ages | 60 |
| Early Pleistocene Animals, Contemporary with Earliest Man | 64 |
| The Sub-Man Pithecanthropus | 65 |
| The Riddle of the Piltdown Sub-Man | 71 |
| Map of Europe 50,000 Years Ago | 77 |
| Neanderthal Man | 78 |
| Early Stone Implements | 81 |
| Australia and the Western Pacific in the Glacial Age | 82 |
| Cro-magnon Man | 87 |
| Europe and Western Asia in the Later Palæolithic Age | 89 |
| Reindeer Age Articles | 90 |
| A Reindeer Age Masterpiece | 93 |
| Reindeer Age Engravings and Carvings | 94 |
| Diagram of the Estimated Duration of the True Human Periods | 97 |
| Neolithic Implements | 107 |
| Restoration of a Lake Dwelling | 111 |
| Pottery from Lake Dwellings | 112 |
| Hut Urns | 115 |
| A Menhir of the Neolithic Period | 128 |
| Bronze Age Implements | 132 |
| Diagram Showing the Duration of the Neolithic Period | 133 |
| Heads of Australoid Types | 139 |
| Bushwoman | 141 |
| Negro Types | 142 |
| Mongolian Types | 143 |
| Caucasian Types | 144 |
| Map of Europe, Asia, Africa 15,000 Years Ago | 145 |
| The Swastika | 147 |
| Relationship of Human Races (Diagrammatic Summary) | 149 |
| Possible Development of Languages | 155 |
| Racial Types (after Champollion) | 163 |
| Combat between Menelaus and Hector | 176 |
| Archaic Horses and Chariots | 178 |
| The Cradle of Western Civilization | 185 |
| Sumerian Warriors in Phalanx | 189 |
| Assyrian Warrior (temp. Sargon II) | 193 |
| Time-chart 6000 B.C. to A.D. | 196 |
| The Cradle of Chinese Civilization (Map) | 202 |
| Boats on Nile about 2500 B.C. | 211 |
| Egyptian Ship on Red Sea, 1250 B.C. | 212 |
| Ã?gean Civilization (Map) | 214 |
| A Votary of the Snake Goddess | 215 |
| American Indian Picture-Writing | 225 |
| Egyptian Gods—Set, Anubis, Typhon, Bes | 236 |
| Egyptian Gods—Thoth-lunus, Hathor, Chnemu | 239 |
| An Assyrian King and His Chief Minister | 243 |
| Pharaoh Chephren | 248 |
| Pharaoh Rameses III as Osiris (Sarcophagus relief) | 249 |
| Pharaoh Akhnaton | 251 |
| Egyptian Peasants (Pyramid Age) | 257 |
| Brawl among Egyptian Boatmen (Pyramid Age) | 260 |
| Egyptian Social Types (From Tombs) | 261 |
| The Land of the Hebrews | 280 |
| Aryan-speaking Peoples 1000-500 B.C. (Map) | 301 |
| Hellenic Races 1000-800 B.C. (Map) | 302 |
| Greek Sea Fight, 550 B.C. | 303 |
| Rowers in an Athenian Warship, 400 B.C. | 306 |
| Scythian Types | 319 |
| Median and Second Babylonian Empires (in Nebuchadnezzarâ?Ts Reign) | 321 |
| The Empire of Darius | 329 |
| Wars of the Greeks and Persians (Map) | 333 |
| Athenian Foot-soldier | 334 |
| Persian Body-guard (from Frieze at Susa) | 338 |
| The World According to Herodotus | 341 |
| Athene of the Parthenon | 348 |
| Philip of Macedon | 368 |
| Growth of Macedonia under Philip | 371 |
| Macedonian Warrior (bas-relief from Pella) | 373 |
| Campaigns of Alexander the Great | 381 |
| Alexander the Great | 389 |
| Break-up of Alexanderâ?Ts Empire | 393 |
| Seleucus I | 395 |
| Later State of Alexanderâ?Ts Empire | 398 |
| The World According to Eratosthenes, 200 B.C. | 405 |
| The Known World, about 250 B.C. | 406 |
| Isis and Horus | 413 |
| Serapis | 414 |
| The Rise of Buddhism | 419 |
| Hariti | 428 |
| Chinese Image of Kuan-yin | 429 |
| The Spread of Buddhism | 432 |
| Indian Gods—Vishnu, Brahma, Siva | 437 |
| Indian Gods—Krishna, Kali, Ganesa | 439 |
| The Western Mediterranean, 800-600 B.C. | 446 |
| Early Latium | 447 |
| Burning the Dead: Etruscan Ceremony | 449 |
| Statuette of a Gaul | 450 |
| Roman Power after the Samnite Wars | 451 |
| Samnite Warriors | 452 |
| Italy after 275 B.C. | 453 |
| Roman Coin Celebrating the Victory over Pyrrhus | 455 |
| Mercury | 457 |
| Carthaginian Coins | 468 |
| Roman As | 471 |
| Rome and its Alliances, 150 B.C. | 481 |
| Gladiators | 489 |
| Roman Power, 50 B.C. | 506 |
| Julius Cæsar | 512 |
| Roman Empire at Death of Augustus | 518 |
| Roman Empire in Time of Trajan | 524 |
| Asia and Europe: Life of the Period (Map) | 544 |
| Central Asia, 200-100 B.C. | 547 |
| Tracks of Migrating and Raiding Peoples, 1-700 A.D. | 555 |
| Eastern Roman Empire | 561 |
| Constantinople (Maps to show value of its position) | 563 |
| Galilee | 571 |
| Map of Europe, 500 A.D. | 608 |
| The Eastern Empire and the Sassanids | 620 |
| Asia Minor, Syria, and Mesopotamia | 622 |
| Ephthalite Coin | 629 |
| Chinese Empire, Tang Dynasty | 633 |
| Yuan Chwangâ?Ts Route from China to India | 643 |
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON
By H. G. Wells
1901
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| I. | MR. BEDFORD MEETS MR. CAVOR AT LYMPNE | 1 |
| II. | THE FIRST MAKING OF CAVORITE | 28 |
| III. | THE BUILDING OF THE SPHERE | 41 |
| IV. | INSIDE THE SPHERE | 54 |
| V. | THE JOURNEY TO THE MOON | 61 |
| VI. | THE LANDING ON THE MOON | 70 |
| VII. | SUNRISE ON THE MOON | 77 |
| VIII. | A LUNAR MORNING | 85 |
| IX. | PROSPECTING BEGINS | 92 |
| X. | LOST MEN IN THE MOON | 107 |
| XI. | THE MOONCALF PASTURES | 115 |
| XII. | THE SELENITE'S FACE | 132 |
| XIII. | MR. CAVOR MAKES SOME SUGGESTIONS | 140 |
| XIV. | EXPERIMENTS IN INTERCOURSE | 152 |
| XV. | THE GIDDY BRIDGE | 161 |
| XVI. | POINTS OF VIEW | 178 |
| XVII. | THE FIGHT IN THE CAVE OF THE MOON BUTCHERS | 191 |
| XVIII. | IN THE SUNLIGHT | 207 |
| XIX. | MR. BEDFORD ALONE | 221 |
| XX. | MR. BEDFORD IN INFINITE SPACE | 238 |
| XXI. | MR. BEDFORD AT LITTLESTONE | 249 |
| XXII. | THE ASTONISHING COMMUNICATION OF MR. JULIUS WENDIGEE | 271 |
| XXIII. | AN ABSTRACT OF THE SIX MESSAGES FIRST RECEIVED FROM MR. CAVOR | 277 |
| XXIV. | THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SELENITES | 289 |
| XXV. | THE GRAND LUNAR | 316 |
| XXVI. | THE LAST MESSAGE CAVOR SENT TO THE EARTH | 340 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| "I was progressing in great Leaps and Bounds" | Frontispiece | |
| "He gesticulated with his Hands and Arms" | To face page | 6 |
| "I looked back at his receding Figure" | "" | 11 |
| "I sat across the Edge of the Manhole and looked down into the Black Interior" | "" | 54 |
| "We watched intensely" | "" | 87 |
| "I realised my Leap had been too Violent" | "" | 101 |
| "Insects," murmured Cavor, "Insects" | "" | 130 |
| "There the Thing was, looking at Us" | "" | 137 |
| "Bedford," he whispered, "there's a sort of Light in front of Us" | "" | 177 |
| "The nearer I struggled, the more awfully remote it seemed" | "" | 236 |
| "They carried Him into Darkness" | "" | 292 |
| The Grand Lunar | "" | 322 |
THE FUTURE IN AMERICA
A SEARCH AFTER REALITIES
By H.G. Wells
1906
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | The Prophetic Habit of Mind | 1 |
| II. | Material Progress | 21 |
| III. | New York | 35 |
| IV. | Growth Invincible | 49 |
| V. | The Economic Process | 68 |
| VI. | Some Aspects of American Wealth | 88 |
| VII. | Certain Workers | 104 |
| VIII. | Corruption | 116 |
| IX. | The Immigrant | 133 |
| X. | State-Blindness | 152 |
| XI. | Two Studies in Disappointment | 167 |
| XII. | The Tragedy of Color | 185 |
| XIII. | The Mind of a Modern State | 203 |
| XIV. | Culture | 223 |
| XV. | At Washington | 236 |
| The Envoy | 254 |
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