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Title: Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8

Author: Charles H. Sylvester

Release Date: February 6, 2008 [EBook #24532]

Language: English

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[Illustration: PROSPERO AND MIRANDA
_The Tempest_]

Journeys
Through Bookland

A NEW AND ORIGINAL
PLAN FOR READING APPLIED TO THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
FOR CHILDREN

_BY_
CHARLES H. SYLVESTER
_Author of English and American Literature_

VOLUME EIGHT
_New Edition_

[Illustration]

Chicago
BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1922
BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY

CONTENTS

PAGE
RINGROSE AND HIS BUCCANEERS 1
DAVID CROCKETT 29
DAVID CROCKETT IN THE CREEK WAR 37
AMERICA _Samuel Francis Smith_ 60
THE RETREAT OF CORTES _William H. Prescott_ 63
BATTLE OF IVRY _Thomas Babington Macaulay_ 76
THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE 81
MARCO BOZZARIS _Fitz-Greene Halleck_ 90
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM _Edgar Allan Poe_ 95
PERE MARQUETTE _Jared Sparks_ 121
THE FALL OF THE ALAMO