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“Especially valuable is his knack for penetrating without offence into the more intimate life of the farmers, lumbermen, and villagers, so that we get much that is practically first-hand material for the study of the average social life of the great valley.”

+Nation. 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 360w.

“Mr. Johnson is a voluminous writer, but he has written no book of more interest to Americans than this one.” Cyrus C. Adams.

+N. Y. Times. 11: 841. D. 8, ’06. 340w.

“The book is eminently readable.”

+Outlook. 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 200w.
+R. of Rs. 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 80w.

Johnson, Eleanor H. Boys’ life of Capt. John Smith. (Young people’s ser.). †75c. Crowell.

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Dedicated to all American boys who are interested in the beginnings of their country, this sketch follows as nearly as possible the explorer’s own words. And to give more of the man’s personality to the volume, some of his letters are appended.