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
- [ Christopher Columbus]
The Boy of Genoa - [ Michael Angelo]
The Boy of the Medici Gardens - [ Walter Raleigh]
The Boy of Devon - [Peter the Great]
The Boy of the Kremlin - [Frederick the Great]
The Boy of Potsdam - [George Washington]
The Boy of the Old Dominion - [Daniel Boone]
The Boy of the Frontier - [John Paul Jones]
The Boy of the Atlantic - [Mozart]
The Boy of Salzburg - [ Lafayette]
The Boy of Versailles - [ Horatio Nelson]
The Boy of the Channel Fleet - [ Robert Fulton]
The Boy of the Conestoga - [ Andrew Jackson]
The Boy of the Carolinas - [Napoleon Bonaparte]
The Boy of Brienne - [ Walter Scott]
The Boy of the Canongate - [ James Fenimore Cooper]
The Boy of Otsego Hall - [ John Ericsson]
The Boy of the Göta Canal - [ Garibaldi]
The Boy of the Mediterranean - [ Abraham Lincoln]
The Boy of the American Wilderness - [ Charles Dickens]
The Boy of the London Streets - [ Otto Von Bismarck]
The Boy of Göttingen