Where'er a single slave doth pine,
Where'er one man may help another--
Thank God for such a birthright, brother--
That spot of earth is thine and mine!
There is the true man's birthplace grand,
His is a world-wide fatherland!
LOWELL.
BOLTON, S.E. (K).
Lives of Girls Who Became Famous.
Crowell. 1.50
The achievements of nineteen women of note are briefly recounted.
Among the number are Harriet Beecher Stowe, Maria Mitchell, Madame de
Stael, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Florence Nightingale. An
encouraging book for ambitious girls.
CHURCH, A.J.
Stories of the East from Herodotus.
Dodd. 1.00
The Father of History tells us of Croesus, his war with and defeat by
the Persians; of Cyrus and his triumphs; of certain kings of Egypt and
the manners of the people; of Cambyses and the Persian conquest; of
the False Smerdis; and of Darius, lord of all Asia.
DRAKE, F.S.
Indian History for Young Folks.
Harper. 3.00
This standard work gives a general account of the North American (p. 173)
Indian, and of our various wars with the different tribes to recent
times. There are maps and many illustrations.
GRIFFIS, W.E.
Young People's History of Holland.
Houghton. 1.50
Every American should know the history of the Netherlands, the
fatherland of millions of Americans and the storehouse of
precedents in federal government from which those who made our
nation borrowed most freely. Nowhere in Europe, except in
England, can one find the origin of so much that is deepest and
best in our national life--including the highest jewel of
civilization, religious liberty--as in Holland, as John Adams and
Benjamin Franklin long ago confessed.--_Preface._
The satisfactory illustrations to this excellent book are taken from
old prints.
HART, A.B., and A.B. CHAPMAN (Editors).
How Our Grandfathers Lived.
Macmillan. .60
This volume relates chiefly to the first half of the nineteenth
century. Our grandfathers and even our fathers passed lives full
of interest and of unusual incidents: the school, the field, the
forest, the hunt, the stagecoach, and the steamboat, are already
remote from our present generation.... Special pains have been
taken to illustrate the remarkable life of the Western frontier,
now fast becoming a tradition.--_Preface._
Girls will enjoy the informal letters, describing the customs and
costumes at the English Court, as well as those of our own land.
HIGGINSON, T.W. (p. 174)
Young Folks' History of the United States.
Longmans. 1.00
There are many histories of our country to choose from, but none is
more satisfactory for young people than this, with its choice language
and interesting style. It contains maps and numerous illustrations.
It will be noticed that less space than usual is given, in these
pages, to the events of war, and more to the affairs of peace.
This course has been deliberately pursued.... Times of peace, the
proverb says, have few historians; but this may be more the fault
of the historians than of the times.--_Preface._
KIEFFER, H.M.
The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy.
Houghton. 1.50
The author was drummer-boy during the Civil War in the 150th
regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, and he tells his own
experiences in camp and on the battlefield from the time of his
enlistment to the "muster-out."
CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH.
LANIER, SIDNEY (Editor).
The Boy's Froissart.
Scribner. 2.00
These tales, which retain to a considerable extent the archaic style
of the original, will interest only the exceptional boy or girl.
PARTON, JAMES.
Captains of Industry.
Houghton. Two volumes. 2.50
The careers of successful business men who had aims beyond mere (p. 175)
money-getting. Among those told of are Elihu Burritt, Henry
Bessemer, Sir William Phips, and Ezra Cornell.
SCOTT, WALTER.
Tales of a Grandfather.
Edited by Edwin Ginn.
Ginn. .40
This well-known book gives the history of Scotland from the earliest
period to the close of the reign of James V.
The present work has been slightly abridged by the omission of
detailed descriptions of some of the more barbarous cruelties of
those times and other unimportant matter. The story unimpaired
has been given in Scott's own language.--_Preface._
SCUDDER, H.E.
George Washington.
Houghton. .75
A reliable conservative biography. It is not only a historical
portrait, but a picture of eighteenth-century colonial life in
Virginia.
THE SHIP OF STATE, BY THOSE AT THE HELM.
Ginn. .40
Twelve articles describing the life and duties of the servants of the
nation. Among the subjects included are The Presidency, by Roosevelt;
The Life of a Senator, by Lodge; How Jack Lives, by Long; Good Manners
and Diplomacy, by Day; The American Post Office, by Wilson.
TAPPAN, E.M. (p. 176)
In the Days of Queen Victoria.
Lothrop. 1.00
The celebrated reign of the good queen is faithfully portrayed.
Queen, as true to womanhood as Queenhood,
Glorying in the glories of her people,
Sorrowing with the sorrows of the lowest!
. . . . . . . . . .
Henry's fifty years are all in shadow,
Gray with distance Edward's fifty summers,
Ev'n her Grandsire's fifty half forgotten.
TENNYSON.
WHITE, J.S. (Editor).
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch.
Putnam. 1.75
Plutarch wrote a hundred books and was never dull. Most of these
have been lost, but the portions which remain have found, with
the exception of Holy Writ, more readers through eighteen
centuries than the works of any other writer of ancient
times.--_Introduction._
If any substitute for a full translation is desired, this abridgment
will serve. It is illustrated.
WRIGHT, H.C.
Children's Stories of the Great Scientists.
Scribner. 1.25
Miss Wright's language is picturesque and interesting. These sixteen
chapters on the famous scientists from Galileo to Darwin and Huxley
will fascinate intelligent children.
ZIMMERN, ALICE.
Greek History for Young Readers.
Longmans. 1.00
A simple, scholarly history; the English excellent. There are maps (p. 177)
and many uncommonly good illustrations.