Excerpt from Historicals for the Young Folks The time will probably never come when the school histories of America shall be so crowded With valuable records that there will not be room for a sketch of the lives of Columbus and 'washington. Still, there are many interesting biographies and incidents for which there is not space in those books for anything more than a passing notice. We are well aware that there are large historical works where all these subjects are thoroughly handled by abler pens than our own, but there are many readers who do not have access to such books. Our object has been to collect and arrange, in the form of a continuous narrative, an account of a few charac ters and events in so small a volume that it shall be within the means of all who wish to obtain more information on these topics than is given in works prepared only for study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.