A boy’s experiences in the Western army during the Civil War. Almost every incident of this story is a real experience.
Captains Courageous. By Rudyard Kipling.
The story of a boy who fell overboard from an Atlantic liner and was rescued by the crew of a fishing schooner. His experiences changed him from a spoiled boy to a manly one.
Cattle Ranch to College. By Russell Doubleday.
A true story of life in the cattle country of Dakota.
Chronicles of Aescendune, The. By A. D. Crake.
1. Edwy the Fair; or, The First Chronicle of Aescendune. A tale of the days of Saint Dunstan. 2. Alfgar the Dane; or, The Second Chronicle of Aescendune. A tale of the Days of Edmund Ironside. 3. Rival Heirs, The; or, The Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune. A tale of the Norman Conquest.
A very excellent series of books dealing with the history of England under the Saxon kings. The struggle between the English and the Danish invaders—a struggle intensified by religious bitterness, and by the sanguinary nature of the Danish creed—is graphically pictured. And after the Danish and the English elements were consolidated, and the Danes converted to Christianity, there came another alloy of foreign blood through the Norman Conquest, the period which completes these chronicles.
Comrades of the Trails. By G. E. Theodore Roberts.
The story of a courageous English lad, Dick Ramsey, who, after the death of his father, crosses the seas and takes up the life of a hunter and trapper in the Canadian forests. There he has many adventures and hairbreadth escapes.