Books with title Short Stories From American History

Hero Stories From American History (1903) was written by Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball. They were also the joint authors of: Short Stories From American History (1905), The Child's Book of American History (1913), Heroic Deeds of American Sailors (1915), American History for Little Folks (1917) and Pioneers of America (1919). Albert Franklin Blaisdell (1847-1927) was the author of: Outlines for the Study of English Classics (1881), Young Folks' Physiology (1892), How to Keep Well (1893), Our Bodies and How We Live (1893), Physiology for Boys and Girls (1893), Stories of the Civil War (1893), A Practical Physiology (1897), Stories From English History (1897), The Story of American History (1900) and Life and Health (1902). Francis Kingsley Ball (1863-1942) was an American author and instructor in the Phillips Exeter Academy. His works include: A German Drill Book (1904), A German Grammar (1907), Constructive English (1923) and The Elements of Greek (1929).

The early history of England, or Britain, as it was anciently called, is involved in great obscurity. The reason of this is, that its first inhabitants, a colony from some other nation, were so much occupied in providing for the actual wants of life, as to have but very little time to spare for the purpose of preserving records of the country whence they came. They were, too, in a state of barbarism, and altogether ignorant of the arts of reading or writing. When they wished to keep a memorial of any great event, such as a victory, a treaty of peace, the death of one king, or the coronation of another, they marked the spot where the occurrence took place with a heap of stones, or set up a rough hewn pillar, and bade their children recount to their descendants the circumstance which it was intended to commemorate. An imperfect memory of certain great events was thus kept alive, and the pillar, or the heap of stones, was appealed to as a memorial, long after the people who had assisted in raising it were dead.

An excellent collection of stories pulled from the pages of history, masterfully told and beautifully illustrated.Contents include:PRINCE BLADUDTHE SLAVE OF AUVERGNEALFRED THE GREATBELA THE BLINDPRINCE EDWIN AND HIS PAGETHE WOLF TRIBUTEFUNERAL OF THE CONQUEROR; OR ANSELM FITZ-ARTHURTHE YOUNG INTERPRETER.THE LORD OF BRAMBERWILLIAM TELLTHE WIDOW OF BRUGESQUEEN MARGARET

The object of these Tales is to impart at once instruction and amusement to the youthful mind. Each of the stories is either founded upon, or connected with, some important event in History, and furnishes useful and entertaining information, as to the Manners and Customs of the peculiar era to which it relates. This is conveyed in language sufficiently simple to be adapted to the comprehension of Children at a very early age; but, at the same time, it is hoped that the Tales will be found interesting to readers at a much more advanced period of life.These Tales are by no means intended to supply the place of History. They are, on the contrary, calculated to create a taste for that style of reading, by indulging the juvenile reader with an attractive portion of its choicest flowers, arranged in the tempting form of Stories. In addition to this, every tale is rendered the vehicle for introducing some moral lesson, calculated to improve the heart, and to impress the tender mind of Childhood with a love of virtue.Such being the object of these Tales, it is to be hoped that they will be found not only essentially useful, but sufficiently attractive to the young, to supersede many of the silly and pernicious fictions which have hitherto, unfortunately, constituted too large a proportion of the books provided for the use of young people.

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