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Title: The Witch of Salem
or Credulity Run Mad

Author: John R. Musick

Illustrator: Freeland A. Carter

Release Date: August 12, 2008 [EBook #26282]

Language: English

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Columbian
Historical
Novels

_By JOHN R. MUSICK_

_With Reading Courses_

Being a Complete History of the United States from the Time
of Columbus to the Present Day

ONE HUNDRED PHOTOGRAVURES, HALF-TONE PLATES, MAPS OF THE
PERIODS AND NUMEROUS PEN-AND-INK DRAWINGS, BY F. A. CARTER

THE R. H. WHITTEN COMPANY _New York_ _Los Angeles_

Copyright, 1906, by FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

_Printed in the United States of America_

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL NOVELS VOLUME VII

THE WITCH OF SALEM _or_ _Credulity Run Mad_

by

JOHN R MUSICK

_Illustrations by_ FREELAND A. CARTER

THE R. H. WHITTEN COMPANY _New York_ _Los Angeles_

Copyright, 1893, by the FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

[_Registered at Stationers' Hall, London, Eng._]

[Illustration]

_Printed in the United States_

PREFACE.

It is a difficult task to go back to ages by-gone, to divest ourselves
of what we know and are and form a clear conception of generations that
have been, of their experiences, objects, modes of life, thought and
expression. It is a task better suited to the novelist than the
historian, and even the former treads on dangerous ground in attempting
it. One of the prime objects of the Columbian Historical Novels is to
give the reader as clear an idea as possible of the common people, as
well as of the rulers of the age. The author has endeavored at the risk
of criticism to clothe the speeches of his characters in the dialect and
idioms peculiar to the age in which they lived. In the former volumes,
sentences most criticised are those taken literally as spoken or w