Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.

The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.