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Young People's History of Holland.
Houghton. 1.50
Every American should know the history of the Netherlands, the
fatherland of millions of Americans and the storehouse of
precedents in federal government from which those who made our
nation borrowed most freely. Nowhere in Europe, except in
England, can one find the origin of so much that is deepest and
best in our national life--including the highest jewel of
civilization, religious liberty--as in Holland, as John Adams and
Benjamin Franklin long ago confessed.--_Preface._
The satisfactory illustrations to this excellent book are taken from
old prints.
HART, A.B., and A.B. CHAPMAN (Editors).
How Our Grandfathers Lived.
Macmillan. .60
This volume relates chiefly to the first half of the nineteenth
century. Our grandfathers and even our fathers passed lives full
of interest and of unusual incidents: the school, the field, the
forest, the hunt, the stagecoach, and the steamboat, are already
remote from our present generation.... Special pains have been
taken to illustrate the remarkable life of the Western frontier,
now fast becoming a tradition.--_Preface._
Girls will enjoy the informal letters, describing the customs and
costumes at the English Court, as well as those of our own land.
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