Books with author Augusta Huiell Seaman

Jacqueline of the Carrier Pigeons, by Augusta Huiell SeamanINTRODUCTIONFAIR LEYDENI am glad that Mrs. Seaman has written this story. Americans cannot know Leyden too well, for no city in Europe so worthily deserves the name of Alma Mater. Here, after giving the world an inspiring example of heroism, modern liberty had her chosen home. The siege, so finely pictured in this story, took place about midway in time between two great events—the march of Alva the Spaniard and his terrible army of "Black Beards" into the Netherlands, and the Union of Utrecht, by which the seven states formed the Dutch Republic.This new nation was based on the federal compact of a written constitution, under the red and white striped flag, in which each stripe represented a state. Under that flag, which we borrowed in 1775 and still keep, though we have added stars, universal common school education of all the children, in public schools sustained by taxation, and freedom of religion for all, was the rule. Leyden won her victory seven years before the Dutch Declaration of Independence in July, 1581. As our own Benjamin Franklin declared, "In love of liberty and bravery in the defense of it, she (the Dutch Republic) has been our great example."With freedom won, as so graphically portrayed in this story, Leyden enlarged her bounds and welcomed to residence and citizenship three companies of people who became pioneers of our American life. Like the carrier-pigeons, they brought something with them. To our nation, they gave some of the noblest principles of the seven Dutch United States to help in making those thirteen of July 4, 1776, and the constitutional commonwealth of 1787, formed by "the people of the United States of America."First of all, to victorious Leyden, came the Walloons, or refugees from Belgium, to gather strength before sailing in the good ship New Netherland, in 1623, to lay the foundations of the Empire State. Then followed the Pilgrim Fathers of New England. Many of the young and strong who sailed in the Speedwell and Mayflower were born in Leyden and spoke and wrote Dutch. The old folks, who could not cross the Atlantic, remained in Leyden until they died and some were buried in St. Pancras and St. Peter's Church. In this city, also, dwelt the Huguenots, in large numbers, many of whom came to America to add their gifts and graces to enrich our nation. Last, but not least, besides educating in her university hundreds of colonial Americans, including two sons of John Adams, one of whom, John Quincy Adams became president of the United States, Leyden in 1782, led in the movement to recognize us as an independent country. Then the Dutch lent us four millions of dollars, which paid off our starving Continentals. Principal and interest, repaid in 1808, amounting to fourteen millions, were used to develop six thousand square miles of Western New York, when New Amsterdam (later called Buffalo) was laid out, and whence came two of our presidents, Fillmore and Cleveland.A most delightful romance is this of Mrs. Seaman. True to facts and exact in coloring, it is all the better for being the straightforward narrative of a real boy and a genuine girl. Gysbert Cornellisen's cooking pot, once smoking with savory Spanish stew or hodge-podge, is still to be seen in the Stedelyk (city) Museum, which every American ought to visit when in Leyden. It is in the old Laken Hal (or cloth Hall). From the turreted battlements of Hengist Hill (Den Burg) we may still look out over the country. If in Leyden on October 3, one will see Thanksgiving Day celebrated, as I know it was, most gaily, in 1909, in a most delightfully Dutch way, when the brides of the year are in evidence. In Belfry Lane, where Jacqueline lived, was the later home of the Pilgrim Fathers.

Sixteen year old Leslie Crane has come to the New Jersey shore as a companion to ailing Aunt Marcia, whose doctor has sent her there for a some quiet rest and recuperation. While the beach is lovely in October, Leslie quickly finds herself getting lonely with no one her own age to talk to. Then when suddenly a metal box, decorated with an elaborately carved dragon, is dug up by Leslie’s dog near a supposedly unoccupied cottage does she end up in the midst of a puzzling mystery centered around the closed up bungalow next door. CONTENTS I The Night of the Storm II Found on the Beach III The Mysterious Casket IV In the Sand V An Exploring Party VI Leslie Makes Some Deductions VII A New Development VIII The Clue of the Green Bead IX Aunt Sally Adds to the Mystification X At Dawn XI An Unexpected Visitor XII The Curious Behavior of Ted XIII A Trap is Set XIV The Man with the Limp XV Out of the Hurricane XVI Rags to the Rescue XVII Eileen Explains XVIII The Dragon Gives Up the Secret XIX The Biggest Surprise of All

This e-book edition comes with 4 books, more than 20 illustrations and an active table of contents. This edition is illustrated and carefully crafted for Kindle Readers.1. The Boarded-Up House2. The Dragon's Secret3. The Slipper Point Mystery4. When A Cobbler Ruled A KingAuthor: Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879 – June 5, 1950) was an American author of children's literature.

The Girl Next DoorBy Augusta Huiell SeamanAuthor Of "The Sapphire Signet," "The Boarded-Up House," Etc.Illustrated By C. M. Relyea------------------------------------------------------------------------CONTENTSIMarcia's SecretIIThe Face Behind the ShutterIIIThe Gate OpensIVThe Backward GlanceVThe Handkerchief in the WindowVICecily Reveals HerselfVIISurprises All AroundVIIIAt the End of the StringIXFor the Sake of CecilyXThe Filigree BraceletXIThe Lifted VeilXIIMiss Benedict SpeaksXIIIVia WirelessXIVThe Writing on the BraceletsXVPuzzling it OutXVIOne Mystery ExplainedXVIIMajor Goodrich AssistsXVIIIThe Major has a Further InspirationXIXThe UnexpectedXXAunt Minerva Takes CommandXXISix Months Later

Inside a crumbling mansion, a hidden stairway leads to a locked room that holds a message from the past. Best friends Joyce and Cynthia have always been fascinated by the huge Colonial with a pair of round windows resembling eyes. When Goliath the cat disappears inside the boarded-up house, the girls follow, uncovering the key to a very old secret.Readers who love the Nancy Drew adventures will cherish this tale of two teenage sleuths and their exciting investigation of a mystery that dates back to the Civil War. The first book in Augusta Huiell Seaman's sought-after series, The Boarded-Up House offers intriguing glimpses of American life from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Marcia tells her friend Janet that the nearby house that always looks shuttered, dark and vacant is not so. There are people living in there. They learn that a young girl their age, Cicely Marlowe, lives there with an older woman who wears a veil over her face, Miss Benedict. They find out that Cicely does not know why, when her mother dies, she was sent to live with Mrs. Benedict. She was never told. Mrs. Benedict insists the girl stay in most all the time and never allows her to look out the windows or talk to girls her age. Marcia and Janet want to unravel this mystery.