History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt by Jacob Abbott, with Engravings. New York:Harper & Brothers, Publishers.1854.CONTENTSIllustration: Scene of Cleopatra’s HistoryPreface.Chapter 1. The Valley of the Nile.Illustration: Valley of the NileIllustration: Delta of the NileChapter 2. The Ptolemies.Illustration: The Birth-Day Present.Chapter 3. Alexandria.Chapter 4. Cleopatra’s Father.Illustration: Antony Crossing the Desert.Chapter 5. Accession to the Throne.Chapter 6. Cleopatra and Cæsar.Illustration: Cleopatra Entering the Palace of Cæsar.Chapter 7. The Alexandrine War.Illustration: View of Alexandria.Chapter 8. Cleopatra a Queen.Illustration: Cleopatra’s Sister in the Triumphal Procession.Chapter 9. The Battle of Philippi.Chapter 10. Cleopatra and Antony.Illustration: The Entertainments at Tarsus.Chapter 11. The Battle of Actium.Chapter 12. The End of Cleopatra.Illustration: The Raising of Antony to the Upper Window of the Tomb Preface.In selecting the subjects for the successive volumes of this series, it has been the object of the author to look for the names of those great personages whose histories constitute useful, and not merely entertaining, knowledge. There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame. This knowledge, which it seems incumbent on every one to obtain in respect to such personages as Hannibal, Alexander, Cæsar, Cleopatra, Darius, Xerxes, Alfred, William the Conqueror, Queen Elizabeth, and Mary, queen of Scots, it is the design and object of these volumes to communicate, in a faithful, and, at the same time, if possible, in an attractive manner. Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and it has been the writer’s aim to present the prominent and leading traits in their characters, and all the important events in their lives, in a bold and free manner, and yet in the plain and simple language which is so obviously required in works which aim at permanent and practical usefulness.