The story of the greatest nations

the long version

"The story of the greatest nations, a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation, and the world's famous events told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands by Edward S. Ellis and Charles F. Horne."