"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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