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Title: Royal Children of English History

Author: E. Nesbit

Illustrator: Frances Brundage
M. Bowley

Release Date: October 4, 2009 [EBook #30167]

Language: English

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[Illustration: ALFRED THE GREAT LEARNING TO READ.]

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Royal Children of English History,

by E. Nesbit

Illustrated by
Frances Brundage
and M. Bowley.

RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS, LTD.
London, Paris, New York

Publishers
to the QUEEN.

No. 2091.

Black & White Drawings & Letterpress printed in England

Contents

Page
Alfred the Great 5
Prince Arthur 12
Henry the Third 20
The First Prince of Wales 27
Edward the Black Prince 35
Henry the Fifth and the Baby King 42

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[Illustration: ROYAL CHILDREN OF ENGLISH HISTORY

Alfred the Great.]

WHEN I was very, very little, I hated history more than all my other
lessons put together, because I had to learn it out of a horrid little
book, called somebody's "Outlines of English History"; and it seemed to
be all the names of the kings and the dates of battles, and, believing
it to be nothing else, I hated it accordingly.

I hope you do not think anything so foolish, because, really, history is
a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our
England years ago; and the things that are happening here and now, and
that are put in the newspapers, will be history for little children one
of these days.

The people in those old times were the