Greek history from Deucalion's flood to the death of Alexander, told for young pupils with the legends kept where the Greeks kept them — inside the history rather than beside it. Guerber wrote a shelf of such books for American schools and had a gift for the anecdote that fixes a name. Thermopylae, Salamis and the retreat from Syracuse are the three set pieces, and they are done plainly. Fifty-nine plates after painters from Poussin to Leighton carry the Greek world in harbour light and ideal landscape, the same ancient air the legends breathe.
