Norman Hapgood's biographies
Illustrated with portraits, fac similes, etc.
Abraham Lincoln—The Man of the People
Library edition, half leather, $2.00
"A Life of Lincoln that has never been surpassed in vividness, compactness and lifelike reality,"—Chicago Tribune.
"Perhaps the best short biography that has yet appeared."—Review of Reviews.
"Its depth, its clearness, its comprehensiveness, seem to me to mark the author as a genuine critic of the broader and the higher school."—Justin McCarthy.
George Washington
Half leather, $1.75 net; by mail, $1.90
"Mr. Hapgood may have done more brilliant or more entertaining work in other fields but we doubt if any of his previous work will take its place in permanent literature so certainly as this study of Washington."—Daily Eagle.
"Mr. Norman Hapgood's 'George Washington' is characterized by an unusual amount of judicious quotation, and also by many pages of graphic narrative and description. It has not been customary heretofore, in brief biographies of eminent men, to put the reader so closely in touch with the sources of history. In this case, however, the method adopted by Mr. Hapgood has not only greatly enhanced the historical value of his work, but has at the same time added to its intrinsic interest."—Review of Reviews.
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Mr. Owen Wister's sketch of
The Seven Ages of Washington
Boards, leather back in box cover, $2.00 net; by mail, $2.11
With nine illustrations in photogravure
"A bright, enjoyable book, brimfull of individuality, containing one of the truest sketches of Washington ever written,"—Record-Herald, Chicago.
"The essence of the whole book is character, and it is as a study of character that it possesses unique value.... It would be a good thing for high school and college students if this study of Washington were made a required text-book in the course of American history. Certainly the young Americans of our day would get from it a far more correct idea of Washington's life, character and influence than from any of the standard biographies or histories."—San Francisco Chronicle.
"The value of the book consists largely in its placing of Washington in the right perspective. Mr. Wister's portrait of him is all of a piece.
"The background, like the portrait, is handled with perfect discretion. The reader who is searching for an authoritative biography of Washington, brief, and made humanly interesting from the first page to the last, will find it here."—From a column review of the book in The New York Tribune, Nov. 23, 1907.
"Mr. Wister has succeeded in revealing a new Washington—a Washington who becomes a wholly lovable man without losing any of his dignity."—Boston Herald.
"In Mr. Wister's hands the Father of his Country is no frozen god. He steps out of the block of ice into which, as the author so well indicates, he was put for safekeeping after death. The book emphasizes the man side of Washington's character. The hero is in the background, and the result is a warm and very convincing picture which it is good to have."—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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Theodore Roosevelt
The Boy and the Man
By JAMES MORGAN
Cloth, illustrated, gilt tops, $1.50
"It does not pretend to be an analysis of the individual, and it was not written with the intention of advocating or criticising his political policies. It was meant to be a simple, straightforward, yet complete biography of the most interesting personality of our day. Its aim is to present a life of action by portraying the varied dramatic scenes in the career of a man who still has the enthusiasm of a boy, and whose energy and faith have illustrated before the world the spirit of Young America."—From the Author's Foreword.
"The book can go into home or school, north or south, without the possibility of offence.... It is especially tonic for high school youth and college young men. I doubt if any book has been written that will do as much for students as will this story of a real life.... Buy it, read it, and tell others to read it."—Journal of Education.
"In point of style the work is a masterpiece of vivid, forceful, sinewy, Anglo-Saxon. The story never halts, one is never irritated by floridity and gush."—Boston Traveler.
"Whether or not a reader believes in Mr. Roosevelt's policies, we doubt if he can fail, after reading Mr. Morgan's book, to be a better American."—Sacred Heart Review.
"It is a book which boys will delight to read, and which they cannot read without feeling the potent charm of what is wholesomest, manliest, worthiest, in man or boy."—Chicago Tribune.
"The book is as readable as a novel and the story it tells is packed with inspiration for American boys."—Hamilton Wright Mabie.
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"Unquestionably the Final Edition" of
The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin
Special limited edition, $30.00 net.
Eversley edition, $15.00 net.
"The volume closes with a copy of Franklin's will and a series of remarkably complete indexes, rendering the contents of all the volumes easily accessible from several different points of view. The whole work bears evidences of painstaking care and devotion to the task for its own sake. It is incomparably the best and most complete edition of Franklin's writings in existence, containing all that is worth preserving, while in arrangement, editorial treatment, and mechanical workmanship it leaves nothing to be desired. The set is certain to have an irresistible attraction for admirers of Franklin and for lovers of well-made books."—Record-Herald, Chicago.
"'Franklin's writings are his best biography.' To few has it been given to tell their own story so frankly and so fully, and with shrewd wisdom and such unfailing humor. We have already, on several occasions, described this excellent edition of Franklin, the fullest, the most accurate that we have ever had."—Churchman.
"Some interesting notes regarding the twenty rare Franklin portraits that have appeared in these volumes are given in the preface to Volume X. The most interesting portrait is the one appearing as the final volume frontispiece, a photogravure of the painting that originally belonged to Franklin, which was taken from his home in Philadelphia during the British occupation, and after the lapse of 130 years was presented to the United States by Earl Gray. It was painted in London in 1759 by Benjamin Wilson, and is now in the White House at Washington."—Boston Transcript.
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