ongmans. 1.25

There is no reason why history should not be made delightful, though
it so often fails in this respect. This little book of Mrs. Mandell
Creighton's, with its good maps, and illustrations, many of them from
old prints, is truly interesting to children.

GILMAN, ARTHUR.
The Making of the American Nation.
Lothrop. .50

The term Making of the American Nation, as used in the title (p. 118)
of the present volume, is intended to mean the process by which
the loosely connected American communities outgrew their colonial
condition of social and political life, and developed into a
nation.--_Preface._

HART, A.B., and B.E. HAZARD (Editors).
Colonial Children.
Macmillan. .40

This is the first of four readers which portray the life and
conditions of our country at different periods by means of extracts
from contemporary sources, freely edited. Many illustrations are
given.

The stories are the same in substance as when they were first
told, two and three centuries ago; but their garb has been
changed without adding a detail or altering a statement of
fact.--_Introduction._

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL.
Grandfather's Chair, and Biographical Stories.
Houghton. .70

In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to
describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our
annals in such a form and style that the YOUNG may make
acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose,
while ostensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has
endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic
history.... The author, it is true, has sometimes assumed the
license of filling up the outline of history with details for
which he has none but imaginative authority, but which, he hopes,
do not violate nor give a false coloring to the
truth.--_Preface._

Grandfather's Chair records, in narrative form, New England (p. 119)
chronicles from 1620 to the War for Independence. Biographical Stories
are tales of West, Newton, Johnson, Cromwell, Franklin, and Queen
Christina, told to a little boy with defective sight. The book has a
biographical sketch, notes, and illustrations.

HEMSTREET, CHARLES.
The Story of Manhattan.
Scribner. 1.00

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