I sing of heroes and of kings,
In mighty numbers mighty things.
COWLEY.
BROOKS, E.S.
The Century Book for Young Americans.
Century. 1.50
Issued under the auspices of the National Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution, this volume gives an account of the visit of (p. 115)
a party of young people to Washington, where they learned much of
interest regarding our government and the workings of its different
departments. There are many illustrations.
"For Mr. Dunlop had said to his brother: 'Take them, first, to
the centre of things, Tom. Go to Washington. Let them see why our
government was made, how it was made, and how it is run.'"
Much regret has been felt from the fact that there has been no
book published heretofore in which the principles contended for
in the American Revolution, and a description of the institutions
of the Government, have been set forth in a sufficiently
interesting form to make the study attractive to children....
This work has now been produced, and it is presented in a form
which commends itself highly to the Society, and has received its
cordial approval.
HORACE PORTER.
BROOKS, E.S.
The Century Book of Famous Americans.
Century. 1.50
This companion to The Century Book for Young Americans, issued under
the auspices of the National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, gives a description of the pilgrimage of the same young
people to historic homes. It is fully illustrated.
BROOKS, E.S.
The True Story of Benjamin Franklin.
Lothrop. 1.50
As one who had a hand in shaping the destinies and securing the
independence of his native land, by word and pen, by brain (p. 116)
and hand, it is most fitting that the story of his life should
be retold for young Americans.--_Preface._
The volume contains many pictures.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to
learn.--_Poor Richard's Almanac._
BROOKS, E.S.
The True Story of Lafayette.
Lothrop. 1.50
The whole life of Lafayette was a long struggle for
constitutional liberty, the freedom he had seen America secure
and which he so ardently desired for France.--_Preface._
Mr. Brooks's account emphasizes the great Frenchman's disinterested
services to our country at a time of dire need. Many illustrations add
to the book's value.
CHENOWETH, C. (V.D.).
Stories of the Saints.
Houghton. 1.25
"And as those of us who are men and women look with reverent and
smiling interest upon the outgrown garments, and books, and toys,
of our childhood, even so I think must Christendom ever look upon
these outgrown beliefs of an earlier day. There is not one of the
stories we can yet afford to lose. For we find, as we arrange the
allegory and romance, and the real, historic bits, in a way to
suit our wiser time, that the lessons they hold are as true for
us as they were for the childlike people who cherished them a
thousand years ago."
The lives and legends of Saint George, Saint Denis, Saint Nicholas,
Saint Elizabeth, and others less well known in the great brotherhood
of all lands, are told with dignity and simplicity. The (p. 117)
illustrations are taken from old pictures.
COFFIN, C.C.
The Boys of '76.
Harper. 2.00
In this volume an attempt has been made to give a concise, plain,
and authentic narrative of the principal battles of the
Revolution as witnessed by those who took part in
them.--_Preface._
A companion to Old Times in the Colonies, with maps and many pictures.
COFFIN, C.C.
Old Times in the Colonies.
Harper. 2.00
Mr. Coffin's writings are full of reliable historical information,
interestingly told. This, the first of a series, takes us from the
discovery of San Salvador to the surrender of Montreal to General
Amherst, in 1760. There are maps and many illustrations.
CREIGHTON, L.H. (V.G.).
A First History of France.
Longmans. 1.25
There is no reason why history should not be made delightful, though
it so often fails in this respect. This little book of Mrs. Mandell
Creighton's, with its good maps, and illustrations, many of them from
old prints, is truly interesting to children.
GILMAN, ARTHUR.
The Making of the American Nation.
Lothrop. .50
The term Making of the American Nation, as used in the title (p. 118)
of the present volume, is intended to mean the process by which
the loosely connected American communities outgrew their colonial
condition of social and political life, and developed into a
nation.--_Preface._
HART, A.B., and B.E. HAZARD (Editors).
Colonial Children.
Macmillan. .40
This is the first of four readers which portray the life and
conditions of our country at different periods by means of extracts
from contemporary sources, freely edited. Many illustrations are
given.
The stories are the same in substance as when they were first
told, two and three centuries ago; but their garb has been
changed without adding a detail or altering a statement of
fact.--_Introduction._
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL.
Grandfather's Chair, and Biographical Stories.
Houghton. .70
In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to
describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our
annals in such a form and style that the YOUNG may make
acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose,
while ostensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has
endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic
history.... The author, it is true, has sometimes assumed the
license of filling up the outline of history with details for
which he has none but imaginative authority, but which, he hopes,
do not violate nor give a false coloring to the
truth.--_Preface._
Grandfather's Chair records, in narrative form, New England (p. 119)
chronicles from 1620 to the War for Independence. Biographical Stories
are tales of West, Newton, Johnson, Cromwell, Franklin, and Queen
Christina, told to a little boy with defective sight. The book has a
biographical sketch, notes, and illustrations.
HEMSTREET, CHARLES.
The Story of Manhattan.
Scribner. 1.00
Here the history of New York City is told as a story, in few
words. The effort has been to make it accurate and interesting.
The illustrations are largely from old prints and wood
engravings. Few dates are used. Instead, a Table of Events has
been added which can readily be referred to. The Index to
Chapters also gives the years in which the story of each chapter
occurs.--_Preface._
HILL, C.T.
Fighting a Fire.
Century. 1.50
An interesting account of the methods used in extinguishing fires and
the thrilling experiences of the firemen in the city of New York,
which will enthrall boys.
McMASTER, J.B.
A Primary History of the United States.
American Book. .60
This book has been written in the belief that a primary history
of the United States should be short, as interesting as possible,
and well illustrated.... The illustrations are historically
authentic.--_Preface._
PRICE, L.L. (p. 120)
Wandering Heroes.
Silver. .50
The deeds of great men belonging to different
nomadic peoples are recounted. We are told
about Abraham, Moses, Prince Siddartha, Clovis,
Attila, Godwin, and Knut.
TAPPAN, E.M.
In the Days of Alfred the Great.
Lothrop. 1.00
As stated in the preface, this narrative of the life of the famous
king is the result of a thoughtful study of his character and an
earnest effort to be as accurate as the scantiness of material and the
thousand years' interval would permit.
I have sought to live my life worthily.
ALFRED THE GREAT.
TAPPAN, E.M.
In the Days of Queen Elizabeth.
Lothrop. 1.00
Of all the sovereigns that have worn the crown of England, Queen
Elizabeth is the most puzzling, the most fascinating, the most
blindly praised, and the most unjustly blamed.... At a distance
of three hundred years it is not easy to balance these claims to
censure and to admiration, but at least no one should forget that
the little white hand of which she was so vain guided the ship of
state with most consummate skill in its perilous passage through
the troubled waters of the latter half of the sixteenth
century.--_Preface._
The book is illustrated from well-known paintings.
TAPPAN, E.M. (p. 121)
In the Days of William the Conqueror.
Lothrop. 1.00
The story of William the Conqueror is the story of the man who
for more than a quarter of a century was the most prominent
personage of Western Europe.... Whatever in the character of the
Conqueror the twentieth century may find worthy of blame or of
praise, no student of his life will deny that his faults were
those of his time, that his virtues were his own.--_Preface._