1. Of the countries of Western Europe, it is France that has the greatest number of human fossils. 2. It is no doubt to this quality that the great popularity of this collection is due. 3. It was only through treachery that the Turks had taken Antioch in 1085. 4. It was during the reign of the same Emperor that the Bulgars, who inlater days played so important a part in Byzantine history, first established themselves in the Balkans. 5. Schools flourished in monasteries connected with York, Yarrow and Whitby, and it is to these that the literature about to be described owes its origin. 6. But, after all, it is not by means of any tricks or devices that, the remarkable effect of Milton's verse is produced: that surely is due to the genius of the author whose mind and soul were full of music and harmony. 7. All the extensions of human control over external nature have been due to improvement in tools. For it is mainly with the aid of tools that men can act upon and alter the material world around them. 8. In 1681 John Dryden wrote his four celebrated Satyres, which brought him into still greater prominence in society and at Court.It is largely on these that his fame as a poet now rests.