There is a facility about the presentation of the subject that would seem to indicate superficiality, but actually gives the best sort of proof of mastery of his subject.
Once the reader gets under way, he will agree, I feel sure, with the statement that Durant has made ancient history very much here and now, has linked our present indissolubly with our past, has breathed new life into the skeleton outline of our school days, and infused it with the spirit of adventure which makes modern archeology a vital, dramatic subject. G Well's Outline of History produced, although the narrowing down of the subject of volume I to ""our Oriental heritage"" may scare some people off. It ought to line up the same sort of buying public that H. I venture to prophesy that - with the Simon & Schuster backing, and the sales history of The Story of Philosophy - this will hit the best seller lists in short order. A modern approach to a subject generally considered dry as dust, is this introductory volume of Will Durant's vast project.
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