By WASHINGTON IRVING. _Abridged by him from his larger Work. With
Portraits, Maps, &c._
This little work has become a universal school-book in America. It
contains all that is most important in the original, in a form more
condensed, and more within the reach of the general reader; while the
story is told with the same spirit and grace as in the great work. As
a book of entertainment, it will bear comparison with any biographical
sketch of the age.