The Book of the SwordFOOTNOTES:Reading editionChapter navigation20 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterFOREWORD.INTRODUCTION.LIST OF AUTHORITIES.Chapter I · PREAMBLE: ON THE ORIGIN OF WEAPONS.Chapter II · MAN’S FIRST WEAPONS—THE STONE AND THE STICK. THE EARLIEST AGES OF WEAPONS. THE AGES OF WOOD, OF BONE, AND OF HORN.Chapter III · THE WEAPONS OF THE AGE OF WOOD: THE BOOMERANG AND THE SWORD OF WOOD; OF STONE, AND OF WOOD AND STONE COMBINED.Chapter IV · THE PROTO-CHALCITIC OR COPPER AGE OF WEAPONS.Chapter V · THE SECOND CHALCITIC AGE OF ALLOYS[242]—BRONZE, BRASS, ETC.: THE AXE AND THE SWORD.Chapter VI · THE PROTO-SIDERIC OR EARLY IRON AGE OF WEAPONS.Chapter VII · THE SWORD: WHAT IS IT?Chapter VIII · THE SWORD IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND IN MODERN AFRICA.Chapter IX · THE SWORD IN KHITA-LAND, PALESTINE AND CANAAN; PHŒNICIA AND CARTHAGE; JEWRY, CYPRUS, TROY, AND ETRURIA.Chapter X · THE SWORD IN BABYLONIA, ASSYRIA AND PERSIA, AND ANCIENT INDIA.Chapter XI · THE SWORD IN ANCIENT GREECE: HOMER; HESIOD AND HERODOTUS: MYCENÆ.Chapter XII · THE SWORD IN ANCIENT ROME; THE LEGION AND THE GLADIATOR.Chapter XIII · THE SWORD AMONGST THE BARBARIANS (EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE).CONCLUSION.INDEX.FOOTNOTES:Previous chapter ←INDEX.End of this editionAll chapters and sections (20)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsFOREWORD.INTRODUCTION.LIST OF AUTHORITIES.Chapters12345678910111213Other sectionsCONCLUSION.INDEX.FOOTNOTES:LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET◇← INDEX.