the work as children, and, it may be added, will no doubt discover
from a fresh perusal the source of numerous bits of knowledge that
have remained stored in their minds since those early years.  Yet
to the majority of this great circle of readers and students the
name Bulfinch in itself has no significance. 

Thomas Bulfinch was a native of Boston, Mass., where he was born
in 1796.  His boyhood was spent in that city, and he prepared for
college in the Boston schools.  He finished his scholastic training
at Harvard College, and after taking his degree was for a period a
teacher in his home city.  For a long time later in life he was
employed as an accountant in the Boston Merchants' Bank.  His
leisure time he used for further pursuit of the classical studies
which he had begun at Harvard, and his chief pleasure in life lay
in writing out the results of his reading, in simple, condensed
form for young or busy readers.  The plan he followed in this work,
to give it the greatest possible usefulness, is set forth in the
Author's Preface. 

"Age of Fable," First Edition, 1855; "The Age of Chivalry," 1858;