Historical Books **** **** for Young People
Young Folks’ History of the United States
By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Illustrated. $1.50.
The story of our country in the most reliable and interesting form. As a story-book it easily leads all other American history stories in interest, while as a text-book for the study of history it is universally admitted to be the best.
Young Folks’ Book of American Explorers
“It is not a history told in the third person, nor an historical novel for young folks, where the author supposes the chief characters to have thought and said such and such things under such and such circumstances; but it is the genuine description given by the persons who experienced the things they described in letters written home.”
—Montpelier Journal.
The Nation in a Nutshell
By George Makepeace Towle, author of “Heroes of History,” “Young Folks’ History of England,” “Young Folks’ History of Ireland,” etc. Price 50 cents.
“To tell the story of a nation like ours in a nutshell, requires a peculiar faculty for selecting, condensing, and philosophizing. The brevity with which he relates the principal events in American history, does not detract from the charming interest of the narrative style.”
—Public Opinion.
Young People’s History of England
By George Makepeace Towle. Cloth, illustrated. $1.50.
“The whole narrative is made interesting and attractive—in every way what a book of this kind should be in its clearness of statement, freshness of style, and its telling of the right ways.”
—Critic.
Handbook of English History
Based on “Lectures on English History,” by the late M. J. Guest, and brought down to the year 1880. With a Supplementary Chapter on the English Literature of the 19th Century. By F. H. Underwood, LL.D. With Maps, Chronological Table, etc. $1.50.
“It approaches nearer perfection than anything in the line we have seen. It is succinct, accurate, and delightful.”
—Hartford Evening Post.
Young People’s History of Ireland
By George Makepeace Towle, author of “Young People’s History of England,” “Young Folks’ Heroes of History,” etc. With an introduction by John Boyle O’Reilly. Cloth, illustrated. $1.50.
“The history is like a novel, increasing in interest to the very end, and terminating at the most interesting period of the whole; and the reader lays down the book a moment in enthusiastic admiration for a people who have endured so much, and yet have retained so many admirable characteristics.”
—N.Y. World.