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Title: From Canal Boy to President
Or The Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield
Author: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Release Date: February 7, 2005 [EBook #14964]
Language: English
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[Illustration: JAMES A. GARFIELD,
AT THE AGE OF 16.
_Copied by permission of_ J.F. RYDER, _Cleveland, G._]
FROM
CANAL BOY TO PRESIDENT,
OR THE
BOYHOOD AND MANHOOD
OF
JAMES A. GARFIELD.
BY
HORATIO ALGER, JR.,
AUTHOR OF RAGGED DICK; LUCK AND PLUCK; TATTERED TOM, ETC.
_ILLUSTRATED_.
NEW YORK
AMERICAN PUBLISHERS CORPORATION
310-318 SIXTH AVENUE
1881
TO
HARRY AND JAMES GARFIELD
WHOSE PRIVATE SORROW
IS THE PUBLIC GRIEF,
THIS MEMORIAL OF THEIR ILLUSTRIOUS FATHER
Is inscribed
WITH THE WARMEST SYMPATHY.
GENERAL PREFACE.
The present series of volumes has been undertaken with the view of
supplying the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous,
manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration. The
writings of Charles Dickens have been selected as the basis of the
scheme, on account of the well-known excellence of his portrayal of
children, and the interests connected with children--qualities which
have given his volumes their strongest hold on the hearts of parents.
These delineations having thus received the approval of readers of
mature age, it seemed a worthy effort to make the young also
participants in the enjoyment of these classic fictions, to introduce
the children of real life to these beautiful children of the
imagination.
With this view, the career of Little Nell and her Grandfather, Oliver,
Little Paul, Florence Dombey, Smike, and the Child-Wife, have been
detached from the large mass of matter with which they were originally
connected, and presented, in the author's own language, to a new class
of readers, to whom the little volumes will we doubt not, be as
attract
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