A Mother's List of Books for Children

by Gertrude Weld Arnold

Seawell, M.E.

Paul Jones.
Appleton. 1.00

Although this story is professedly and confessedly a romance, history has been consulted at every point. Log-books, journals, and biographies, have been searched, especially the logs, journals, and letters, of Paul Jones himself. Much relating to him has been left out, but nothing of consequence has been put in that is not historically true. The language ascribed to him is, whenever possible, that used by him at the time, or afterward, in his letters and journals.--Introduction.

For Captain Paul Jones ever loved close fighting.

Franklin.

Seawell, M.E.

Twelve Naval Captains.
Scribner. 1.25

Brief accounts of the lives of some famous American commanders, many of them of the period from 1798 to 1815. Preble, Decatur, Somers, and Lawrence, are among the number. The book contains portraits.