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When I Was a Boy in Japan

Chapter 15: BOOKS FOR Young Americans.
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A series of personal sketches recounts a boyhood shaped by family rituals, village and city schooling, seasonal festivals, toys and small adventures. Vignettes describe domestic meals, traditional instruction alongside English lessons, classroom discipline, summer swims, ancestral observances, and neighborhood pastimes, while occasional anecdotes touch on trades, markets, and local fêtes. An accompanying child companion widens the narrative scope, and the chapters combine informal memoir, moral tales, and cultural detail into a portrait of everyday youthful experience illustrated with photographs and episodic scenes.

BOOKS
FOR
Young Americans.

By ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS.

THE POPULAR “TRUE STORY” SERIES.

Seven 4to volumes of from 200 to 250 pages each, profusely illustrated and attractively bound in cloth, each $1.50.

“A series which is worthy of hearty commendation. Every grown-up person who has read one of them will wish to buy the whole series for the young folks at home.”—The Christian Advocate.

This series contains:

THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, called the Admiral. Revised Edition.

THE TRUE STORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, called the Father of His Country.

THE TRUE STORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the American.

THE TRUE STORY OF U. S. GRANT, the American Soldier.

THE TRUE STORY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, the American Statesman.

THE TRUE STORY OF LAFAYETTE, the Friend of America.

THE TRUE STORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. From 1492 to 1900.

Also, recently published:

IN BLUE AND WHITE. A Story of the American Revolution. 8vo, illustrated, $1.50.

Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.,
93 FEDERAL STREETBOSTON.