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This is the first of four readers which portray the life and
conditions of our country at different periods by means of extracts
from contemporary sources, freely edited. Many illustrations are
given.
The stories are the same in substance as when they were first
told, two and three centuries ago; but their garb has been
changed without adding a detail or altering a statement of
fact.--_Introduction._
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL.
Grandfather's Chair, and Biographical Stories.
Houghton. .70
In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to
describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our
annals in such a form and style that the YOUNG may make
acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose,
while ostensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has
endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic
history.... The author, it is true, has sometimes assumed the
license of filling up the outline of history with details for
which he has none but imaginative authority, but which, he hopes,
do not violate nor give a false coloring to the
truth.--_Preface._
Grandfather's Chair records, in narrative form, New England (p.
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