Home Life in Colonial Days
By ALICE MORSE EARLE
Cloth. 12mo. $2.50
Boston Herald:
"A good many books have been written about the lives and customs of our ancestors of colonial times, and especially about the differences between their lives and ours and the primitive and picturesque utensils which they employed in their households. These have been partly the outcome and partly the prompting agency of the rage for antiques. Various writers have unearthed a large amount of curious lore, which is not all of equal value, though almost every hint that has come through their pages goes to recreate the atmosphere and reveal the conditions pertaining to the earliest pioneers in North America. Mrs. Alice Morse Earle has done a great deal of good work in this field. Probably it is quite within bounds to say that she possesses a larger fund of vivacious and interesting knowledge about the lives and the works, the occupations and makeshifts, the industries and enjoyments, of the Puritans and the other early colonists than any other student in this rich domain."
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph:
"Mrs. Earle, as many readers have discovered, is one of the most painstaking and agreeable of antiquarians. The present book is one of her best."
Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester:
"Touches a most fascinating phase of American history.... The story, which has been patiently gathered from many sources and historical records, is told in a graphic and charming manner, and is pictured by nearly 200 illustrations ... certainly a contribution to our history of very high value."
The Herald, Boston:
"Full of new information and description of surprisingly fresh interest ... no other single volume with which we happen to be acquainted constructs with such completeness, fairness, and suggestiveness, the atmosphere of colonial homes."
Buffalo Commercial:
"One of the handsomest books that we have received."
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STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY
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YANKEE SHIPS AND YANKEE SAILORS
TALES OF 1812
By JAMES BARNES
Illustrated by R. F. Zogbaum and C. T. Chapman.
"Mr. Barnes knows how to tell a story as well as how to write history. His style is terse and full of movement; his book one that old and young may read with zest."—Detroit Free Press.
SOUTHERN SOLDIER STORIES
By GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON
Author of "A Rebel's Recollections," etc., etc.
Illustrated by R. F. Zogbaum.
"Faithfully told stories, bearing every evidence of absolute truth.... One's pulses quicken as he becomes acquainted with the heroic deeds of those brave Americans, who were on the losing side, fighting an impossible cause; he sorrows with those who felt the tragedy of it all. It is a volume which every boy or girl, as well as every man and woman in America, may read with profitable interest."—The St. Louis Globe Democrat.
"Such capital reading that no one can fail to enjoy them."—New Orleans Picayune.
TALES OF THE ENCHANTED ISLES OF THE ATLANTIC
By THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON
Author of "Young Folks' History of the United States," "Malbone," "Cheerful Yesterdays," etc.
Illustrated by Albert Herter.
Legends with which the people of Europe were for many centuries fed in regard to the countries beyond the seas now known as America. "No national history has been less prosaic in its earlier traditions," says Colonel Higginson, who relates in a manner which shows strong sympathy and learned research, these wonderful stories which for a thousand years were told of a mysterious island in the Atlantic.
BUCCANEERS AND PIRATES OF OUR COASTS
By FRANK R. STOCKTON
Author of "Rudder Grange," etc., etc.
Illustrated by G. Varian and B. W. Clinedinst.
Stories of the rise and decline of buccaneering and piracy in our West Indian waters. Spanish exactions grew so monstrous in the seventeenth century that English, French, and Dutch combined against their excesses. The buccaneers who were the result of the combination became later pirates for private gain. Mr. Stockton's quaint humor brightens the stories of their dark deeds in characteristic style. The book is unique.
THE STORY OF OLD FORT LOUDON
A Tale of the Cherokees and the Pioneers of Tennessee, 1760
By CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK
Author of "Where the Battle Was Fought," etc., "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountain."
Illustrated by E. C. Peixotto.
A narrative of the life of the pioneers of Tennessee and their fortunes at the hands of the Cherokees in the uprising of 1760. The brilliant Tennessee landscape and the old frontier fort serve as a background to this picture of Indian craft and guile and pioneer hardships and pleasures.
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Adown a shallow stream we sent our leafy boats with swelling sail, and floating pennant of striped grass. Freighted with flowers beloved of children, the laughing pansies,—for thoughts,—we thrust them heedlessly forth with never a care whether boat or crew e'er reached a harbor.
Out into the world on the stream of the fast-hurrying century I send this paper boat—my book—laden with thoughts of children's lives. Grown careful with years, I crave for it a safe journey and sheltered harbor. Perhaps the craft may bear to some reader a memory of his own childhood, as well as stories of the children of an ancient day; a day so gray and sad as seen through the haze of centuries that the only cheerful light is found in the faces of the children.
