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HE HOUSEHOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS PEOPLE. FOR YOUNG AMERICANS. By EDWARD EGGLESTON. Richly illustrated with 350 Drawings, 75 Maps, etc. Square 8vo. Cloth, $2.50.

FROM THE PREFACE.

The present work is meant, in the first instance, for the young- not alone for boys and girls, but for young men and women who have yet to make themselves familiar with the more important features of their country's history. By a book for the young is meant one in which the author studies to make his statements clear and explicit, in which curious and picturesque details are inserted, and in which the writer does not neglect such anecdotes as lend the charm of a human and personal interest to the broader facts of the nation's story. That history is often tiresome to the young is not so much the fault of history as of a false method of writing by which one contrives to relate events without sympathy or imagination, without narrative connection or animation. The attempt to master vague and general records of kiln-dried facts is certain to beget in the ordinary reader a repulsion from the study of history-one of the very most important of all studies for its widening influence on general culture.

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THAN ALLEN. The Robin Hood of Vermont.
By HENRY HALL. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.

The aim of the author has been to depict Allen's personality, and to throw some new light upon the character of one who has been often violently assailed. Allen's own letters have been freely drawn upon. The mass of material which has been examined has included matter not utilized before, and the result is an impartial and careful picture of Allen's associations, and habits of thought and action, which, it is believed, can not be neglected by Americans interested in the history of their own country.

"A spirited account of a forcible and influential character in our colonial and Revolutionary history. Ethan Allen certainly was a picturesque figure in his day, and his checkered career would afford a good foundation for a sensational novel."-Congregationalist.

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"Ethan Allen was not a polished drawing-room knight or a pious churchman. He swore terribly, and he was looked upon as a dangerous atheist. But no one now thinks of the manners or the piety of the man who, with eighty-three men, entered Fort Ticonderoga and summoned the British commander of the garrison to surrender."-Philadelphia Bulletin.

"A brief, sketchy, lively, entertaining biography of one of the most remarkable men in our early national history. -Chicago Times.

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HE PRIVATE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM MACLAY, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, 17891791. With Portrait from Original Miniature. Edited by EDGAR S. MACLAY, A. M. Large 8vo. Cloth, $2.25. "In Mr. Maclay's time sessions of the Senate were held with closed doors, and the authentic records we have of its proceedings are meager. As Mr. Maclay's journal is concerned almost wholly with the proceedings of this body, its value as a record becomes very great. Students of the period must henceforth include it among their valuable sources of original information. The circumstances in which it was written give it peculiar value. Mr. Maclay wrote while his knowledge was still fresh and clear."-New York Times.

"So meager are the official reports of the doings of the first Congress after the adoption of the Constitution, that Mr. Maclay's journal must always be of great historical value. While Senator, he recorded in his journal each evening the proceedings of the day, and these records, many of them voluminous, give the book its value."-New York Herald.

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN: The True Story of a Great

LIFE. By WILLIAM H. HERNDON and JESSE W. WEik. With numerous Illustrations. New and revised edition, with an introduction by HORACE WHITE. In two volumes.

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This is probably the most intimate life of Linccin ever written. The book, by Lincoln's law-partner, William H. Herndon, and his friend Jesse W. Weik, shows us Lincoln the man. It is a true picture of his surroundings and influences and acts. It is not an attempt to construct a political history, with Lincoln often in the background, nor is it an effort to apotheosize the American who stands first in our history next to Washington. The writers knew Lincoln intimately. Their book is the result of unreserved association. There is no attempt to portray the man as other than he really was, and on this account their frank testimony must be accepted, and their biography must take permanent rank as the best and most illuminating study of Lincoln's character and personality. Their story, simply told, relieved by characteristic anecdotes, and vivid with local color, will be found a fascinating work.

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"Among the books which ought most emphatically to have been written must be classed 'Herndon's Lincoln.'"-Chicago Inter-Ocean.

"The author has his own notion of what a biography should be, and it is simple enough. The story should tell all, plainly and even bluntly. Mr. Herndon is naturally a very direct writer, and he has been industrious in gathering material. Whether an incident happened before or behind the scenes, is all the same to him. He gives it without artifice or apology. He describes the life of his friend Lincoln just as he saw it."-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

"A remarkable piece of literary achievement-remarkable alike for its fidelity to facts, its fullness of details, its constructive skill, and its literary charm."-New York Times.

"It will always remain the authentic life of Abraham Lincoln."-Chicago Herald. "The book is a valuable depository of anecdotes, innumerable and characteristic. It has every claim to the proud boast of being the 'true story of a great life.'”—Phila. delphia Ledger.

"Will be accepted as the best biography yet written of the great President.”Chicago Inter-Ocean.

"Mr. White claims that, as a portraiture of the man Lincoln, Mr. Herndon's work 'will never be surpassed.' Certainly it has never been equaled yet, and this new edision is all that could be desired."-New York Observer.

"The three portraits of Lincoln are the best that exist; and not the least characeristic of these, the Lincoln of the Douglas debates, has never before been engraved. Herndon's narrative gives, as nothing else is likely to give, the material from which we may form a true picture of the man from infancy to maturity."-The Nation.

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A Series of Brief

Biographies of Illustrious Americans. Edited by General JAMES GRANT WILSON. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.50 per volume. This series forms one of the most notable collections of books that has

been published for many years. The success it has met with since the first volume was issued, and the widespread attention it has attracted, indicate that it has satisfactorily fulfilled its purpose, viz., to provide in a popular form and moderate compass the records of the lives of men who have been conspicuously eminent in the great conflicts that established American independence and maintained our national integrity and unity. Each biography has been written by an author especially well qualified for the task, and the result is not only a series of fascinating stories of the lives and deeds of great men, but a rich mine of valuable information for the student of American history and biography.

The volumes of this series thus far issued, all of which have received the highest commendation from authoritative journals, are:

ADMIRAL FARRAGUT. By Captain A. T. MAHAN, U. S. N. GENERAL TAYLOR. By General O. O. Howard, U. S. A. GENERAL JACKSON. By JAMES PARTON.

GENERAL GREENE. By Captain FRANCIS V. GREENE, U. S. A. GENERAL J. E. JOHNSTON. BY ROBERT M. HUGHES, of Va. GENERAL THOMAS. BY HENRY COPPÉE, LL. D. GENERAL SCOTT. By General MARCUS J. WRIGHT. GENERAL WASHINGTON. By Gen. BRADLEY T. JOHNSON.

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General Hancock. By General FRANCIS A. WALKER.
General Sherman. By General MANNING F. FORCE.

General Grant. By General JAMES GRANT WILSON.

Admiral Porter. By JAMES F. SOLEY, late Assistant Sec. of Navy. General Lee. By General FITZHUGH LEE.

General Sheridan. By General HENRY E. DAVIES.

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