Among other accounts
there is a description of Mosby's guerillas, and the tunnel escape
from Libby Prison is told by one of the Union officers who got away
and was retaken.
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. (p. 202)
Autobiography.
Houghton. .60
Notwithstanding its brevity, this autobiography has doubtless been a
greater incentive to ambitious boys than any other. It is perhaps
worth noting that a prominent Japanese merchant of Boston, when a boy
in his native land, after reading the book, determined to seek his
fortune in Franklin's country, and testifies to it as one of the chief
factors in his successful career. This useful edition contains a
sketch of the great man's life from the point where his own writing
ends, drawn chiefly from his letters. There are notes and a
chronological historical table.
HART, A.B., and ELIZABETH STEVENS (Editors).
The Romance of the Civil War.
Macmillan. .60
This fourth volume of Source Readers attempts to put before
teachers and children the actualities of the Civil War period. It
contains something of the spirit of North and South at the
beginning of the war, and much about the life of the soldier and
the citizen while it was going on, with some of the battle smoke
and dust.
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