Part 3 — Stories from American History

Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors

By JAMES BARNES

Tales of 1812, by the author of “Drake and his Yeomen,” “For King and Country,” etc. Illustrated by R. F. Zogbaum and Carlton T. Chapman.

Cloth, $1.50

The Wilderness Road

By H. ADDINGTON BRUCE

The central figure in this story of the early development of the Middle West is Daniel Boone, the man who blazed the famous Wilderness road. In telling his story Mr. Bruce touches on such matters as the economic and social factors influencing the movement across the mountains, and the significance of that movement with relation to the growth of revolutionary sentiment in the American colonies, etc. To be illustrated.

In preparation

The Story of the Great Lakes

By EDWARD CHANNING and MARION F. LANSING

The Professor of American History in Harvard University, author of a number of volumes on the History of the United States, has found an immense amount of romance centred about the Great Lakes, from the time of their discovery and early exploration by the French missionaries down to the present time when they play so important a part in the industrial progress of the Middle West. This book tells the story of these great inland waterways, with special reference to those picturesque aspects of history which interest the general reader. To be illustrated.

Cloth, $1.50

The Story of Old Fort Loudon

By CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK

A Tale of the Cherokees and the Pioneers of Tennessee, 1760, by the author of “The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains.” Illustrated by Ernest C. Peixotto.

Cloth, $1.50

Southern Soldier Stories

By GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON

Forty-seven stories illustrating the heroism of those brave Americans who fought on the losing side in the Civil War. Humor and pathos are found side by side in these pages, which bear evidence of absolute truth. Illustrated by R. F. Zogbaum.

Cloth, $1.50

Tales of the Enchanted Isles of the Atlantic

By THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

Legends showing that the people of Europe were for centuries fed with romances of marvellous and beautiful countries beyond the Atlantic. Besides the early Irish, Spanish, and other traditions of the Happy Islands of the West, there come to us, among others from our own race, the old stories of King Arthur and his Avalon; of St. Brandan’s Isle; of the Voyages of Erik the Viking; and of the vanishing Norumbega, so real a vision to the imaginations of Queen Elizabeth’s day. Illustrated by Albert Herter.

Cloth, $1.50

De Soto and His Men in the Land of Florida

By GRACE KING

The author of “New Orleans: The Place and the People” has collected into an entertaining volume stories of the brilliant armada which sailed westward under De Soto in 1538 to subdue the natives and bring this country under the Spanish crown. Old Spanish and Portuguese narratives are the basis of its history. Illustrated by George Gibbs.

Cloth, $1.50

The Story of the New England Whalers

By JOHN R. SPEARS

Some of the most romantic and adventurous characters in American history are dealt with in this book, in which Mr. Spears tells the story of the American whaling industry. He has given us the life stories of the men who made New Bedford, Nantucket, and Marblehead—the men to whom more than to any others was due the upbuilding of the American merchant service in the early days of the Republic. Illustrated from photographs.

Cloth, $1.50

Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coast

By FRANK R. STOCKTON

This book is an account—with efforts to sift falsifying legend and preserve the truth—of the offshoots of the early English, French, and Dutch combinations against Spanish exactions in West India waters. From the early buccaneer with a legitimate purpose came the pirate whose greed of booty was for private gain. Mr. Stockton has told wild stories of picturesque figures among both types of leaders, and his characteristic quaint turns of humor set them off entertainingly. Illustrated by G. Varian and B. W. Clinedinst.

Cloth, $1.50

PUBLISHED BY

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

64–66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

Abraham Lincoln

The Boy and the Man

By JAMES MORGAN

With Many Interesting Portraits and Other Illustrations, many of them secured for the book from Private Collections

Cloth, $1.50

You may already know the great events of Lincoln’s life, but you will still find this simple, clear, straightforward story of the early hard work, the slow study for the practice of law, the single-minded stand “for the Union,” and the brave, quiet facing of every difficulty, the most fascinating record of any human life which you have known.

The Chicago Tribune says of it editorially: “It tells the life story well. It is interesting. It is well written. It gives the significant facts one wants to know.”

The Seven Ages of Washington

By OWEN WISTER

Attractively bound, illustrated in photogravure, $2.00 net

The New York Tribune says of it: “‘The Seven Ages of Washington’ ... gives a remarkable interpretation of its subject.... It is plain that the author has been moved to the depths of him by his hero’s worth, finding in the traditionally ‘cold’ figure of Washington a type to touch the emotions as vividly as Napoleon touches them in even his most dramatic moments. He passes on his impression in a few chapters which gather up everyday traits as they come out in letters and other records. The salient events in Washington’s career, military and political, are indicated rather than dwelt upon. The object of interest is always his character; the things placed in the foreground are the episodes, great or small, which show us that character in action or point to the sources of its development.... The background, like the portrait, is handled with perfect discretion. The reader who is searching for an authoritative biography of Washington, brief, and made humanly interesting from the first page to the last, will find it here.”

PUBLISHED BY

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

64–66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK