The first 19 volumes are a slightly condensed translation, with additions, of the "Allgemeine weltgeschichte" by T. Flathe and others, Berlin 1885-92. Translated by James Hunter, Joseph H. Myers and others, under the supervision of John Henry Wright. cf. General pref I. Egypt and Western Asis in antiquity.--II. Central and eastern Asia in antiquity.--III. Ancient Greece.--IV. Republican Rome.--V. Imperial Rome.--VI. The great migrations.--VII. The early middle ages.--VIII. The age of Charlemagne.-- IX. The age of feudalism and theocracy.--X. The age of the renaissance.--XI. The age of reformation.--XII. The religious wars.--XIII. The age of Louis XIV.--XIV. The age of European balance power.--XV. The age of Frederick the Great.--XVI. The French revolution and the rise of Napoleon.--XVII. The Napoleonic empire.--XVIII. Restoration and revolution.--XIX. The reconstruction of Europe.--XX. Contemporary Europe, Asia, and Africa.--XXI. Colonization of the New World.--XXII. Independence of the New World.--XXIII. Modern development of the New World.--XXIV. General index