Popular Biographies.
18 volumes, 12mo, cloth, 1.50.
Take these four:
- Oliver Wendell Holmes. By E. E. Brown.
- James Russell Lowell. By E. E. Brown.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. By W. S. Kennedy.
- John Greenleaf Whittier. By W. S. Kennedy.
To review their lives and work and catch the spirit of both in 300 or 400 pages of easy type is to give the bones of biography; which is all nine tenths of us have the time to read; and the other tenth are glad of the bones before they come to the more elaborate whole.
The other fourteen:
- Charles XII, King of Sweden. By M. de Voltaire.
- Charles Dickens. By P. A. Hanaford.
- Benjamin Franklin. By Jeremiah Chaplin.
- Horace Greeley. By William Cornell.
- James A. Garfield. By E. E. Brown.
- Ulysses S. Grant. By E. E. Brown.
- Amos Lawrence. By William R. Lawrence.
- Abraham Lincoln. By P. A. Hanaford.
- David Livingstone. By John S. Roberts.
- Lord Nelson. By Robert Southey.
- Israel Putnam. By I. N. Tarbox.
- George Peabody. By P. A. Hanaford.
- Charles Sumner. By J. and J. D. Chaplin.
- Bayard Taylor. By Russel H. Conwell.
- Daniel Webster. By Joseph Banvard.
- Henry Wilson. By Elias Nason.
Young Folks’ Stories of Foreign Lands.
Edited by Pansy. First and second series, 4to, boards, each .75.
Sketches, tales and pictures on Old-World subjects.