Books with title Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children

"Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children" by Grace Greenwood. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Mabel Howard, my little heroine, was not exactly an English girl, though she was the daughter of English parents. She was born in India, in Calcutta, where her father, Colonel Howard, was stationed for several years with his regiment. Mabel was not, I am sorry to say, a bright and blooming little maiden, though she had a sweet, intelligent face, and very endearing ways. From her birth, she had been pale, slight, and feeble. The climate was very bad for her; and, though all possible pains were taken with her health, she did not gain strength, but grew weaker and weaker. At last, when she was about nine years of age, it was resolved to send her to England, to stay with her grandparents, who lived in London. Neither her papa nor her mamma could go with her; but Katuka, her ayah, or native nurse, a kind, faithful woman, would go and stay with her always, and a friend of Colonel Howard, an officer returning home, would take charge of them both till they should reach London.

Includes 62 stories intended primarily for use by teachers and parents of children in grades 3 and 4. The events and personalities were chosen mainly from the history of the United States as well as a few Old World stories. Industrial and social conditions are portrayed along with important moral and character building principles. Many of these short stories have been especially adapted for use in connection with the various holidays and anniversaries that fall within the school year. At the end of some of the stories are supplementary notes addressed to the teacher or parent, intended to supply additional information.

Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Grace Greenwood is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Grace Greenwood then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

About the Book The history of Europe covers the peoples inhabiting that continent from prehistory to the present. After the decline of the city-states of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire came to dominate the entire Mediterranean basin up to AD 476, which was the start of the Middle Ages. From the 14th century there was a Renaissance of knowledge in science, art and theology. At the same time the Protestant Reformation set up Protestant churches in Germany, Scandinavia and England. Post 1800, the Industrial Revolution brought prosperity to Britain and spread through Western Europe. The main European powers established colonies throughout the Americas and Africa, and parts of Asia. While wars had been a constant throughout Europe for millennia, during the 20th century, World War I and World War II resulted in tens of millions of deaths. About us Leopold Classic Library has the goal of making available to readers the classic books that have been out of print for decades. While these books may have occasional imperfections, we consider that only hand checking of every page ensures readable content without poor picture quality, blurred or missing text etc. That's why we: republish only hand checked books; that are high quality; enabling readers to see classic books in original formats; that are unlikely to have missing or blurred pages. You can search "Leopold Classic Library" in categories of your interest to find other books in our extensive collection. Happy reading!

After all, I think I had more real delight in the noble public parks and gardens of London than in palaces and cathedrals They were all wonders and novelties to me—for, to our misfortune and discredit,—we have nothing of the kind in our country. To see the poor little public squares in our towns and cities, where a few stunted trees seem huddled together, as though scared by the great red-faced houses that crowd so close upon them, one would think that we were sadly stinted and straitened for land, instead of being loosely scattered over a vast continent, many times larger than all Great Britain.

Sara Jane Lippincott (1823-1904) was an American author, better known by the pseudonym Grace Greenwood. She was born at Pompey, N. Y.. Her family moved to New Brighton, Pennsylvania, where her father was a physician, and she there attended the Greenwood Institute, a ladies' academy, from which she may have taken her pseudonym. In 1853, she married Leander K. Lippincott, but he left the country in 1876 after indictment for land fraud. Her earliest writing was poetry and children's stories, and with her husband she started the Little Pilgrim (1854), an American children's magazine. She was soon producing magazine articles and essays, and became one of the earliest regular female newspaper correspondents. In 1852 she went to Europe on assignment for the New York Times. She was an active supporter of women's rights and of the anti-slavery movement, and during the Civil War wrote articles from Washington DC in aid of the Northern cause. Her works include: Greenwood Leaves (1850), History of my Pets (1851), Merrie England (1855), Bonnie Scotland (1861), Stories of Many Lands (1867) and Queen Victoria: Her Girlhood and Womanhood (1883).