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Books for Young Americans
By ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS
The Popular "True Story" Series
Seven 4to volumes of from 200 to 250 pages each, profusely illustrated and attractively bound in cloth, each $1.50.
This series contains:
The True Story of Christopher Columbus, called the
Admiral. Revised edition.
The True Story of George Washington, called the Father of
His Country.
The True Story of Abraham Lincoln, the American.
The True Story of U. S. Grant, the American soldier.
The True Story of Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman.
The only popular life of the great Franklin written from a human
standpoint for the boys and girls of America.
The True Story of Lafayette, the friend of America.
This volume, the sixth in the series of "Children's Lives of Great Men,"
will appeal to all young Americans. It is an absorbing, simply told, and
stirring story of a remarkable character in American history, and is the
"whole story," from the boyhood of the great Frenchman to the close of
his long, dramatic, and romantic career.
The True Story of the United States of America. From 1492 to 1900.
This is in every sense a companion volume to the series of "Children's
Lives of Great Men." It tells the true story of the beginnings, rise,
and development of the republic of the United States. Its object is to
tell the story of the people of America. It is largely used for home and
supplementary reading, and is accepted as the most popular "story" of
the United States yet told for young people.
At all bookstores, or sent postpaid on receipt of price.
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO. . . . . BOSTON
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