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Title: Historic Boyhoods

Author: Rupert Sargent Holland

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HISTORIC BOYHOODS

by

RUPERT S. HOLLAND

Author of "The Count at Harvard," "Builders of United Italy," etc.

[Illustration: THE FLEET OF COLUMBUS NEARING AMERICA]

Philadelphia George W. Jacobs & Company Publishers

Copyright, 1909, by George W. Jacobs and Company
Published October, 1909
All rights reserved
Printed in U.S.A.

_To the dear memory of L.B.R._

The thanks of the author are due the Century Company for permission to
reprint certain of these stories which appeared in _Saint Nicholas_ in
shorter form.

CONTENTS

I. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
The Boy of Genoa

II. MICHAEL ANGELO
The Boy of the Medici Gardens

III. WALTER RALEIGH
The Boy of Devon

IV. PETER THE GREAT
The Boy of the Kremlin

V. FREDERICK THE GREAT
The Boy of Potsdam

VI. GEORGE WASHINGTON
The Boy of the Old Dominion

VII. DANIEL BOONE
The Boy of the Frontier

VIII. JOHN PAUL JONES
The Boy of the Atlantic

IX. MOZART
The Boy of Salzburg

X. LAFAYETTE
The