Xerxes

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Makers of History

Xerxes

BY JACOB ABBOTT

WITH ENGRAVINGS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER &BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

1902

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by

HARPER &BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York.

Copyright, 1878, by JACOB ABBOTT

[Illustration: ARTABANUS AND THE GHOST]