From the preface by the multi-termed Prime Minister, William Gladstone: In this work, which is mainly the produce of the two Recesses of 1867 and 1868, I have endeavoured to embody the greater part of the results at which I arrived in the ‘ Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age,’ 1858. Those results however are considerably modified in the Ethnological, and in the Mythological, portions of the inquiry. The chief source of modification in the former has been that a further prosecution of the subject with respect to the Phoenicians has brought out much more clearly and fully what I had only ventured to suspect or hint at, and gives them, if I am right, a highly influential function in forming the Greek nation. A fuller view of this element in its composition naturally acts in an important manner upon any estimate of Pelasgians and Hellenes respectively. Colour pull-out map.