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The child's book of true stories.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tarbox, Increase N. (Increase Niles), 1815-1888, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Biography.
- Courage--Juvenile literature.
- Courage.
- Heroes--Juvenile literature.
- Heroes.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : Leavitt and Allen, 1854.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Story of the two Mohawks
- Admiral Keppel and the Dey
- Death of Colonel Gardiner
- The careless father
- The bravery of Lord Nelson
- Heroic action of Kerserho
- Story of Francis the First
- The adopted child
- Story of Henry the Fifth
- Heroism of Dacheux
- The good son
- The humane islanders
- A duel prevented
- A Mandan cemetery
- Perseverance rewarded [about Bernard Palissy, painter of glass].
- Notes:
- Written by Increase N. Tarbox.
- Illustrations signed: DCH [Dewitt C. Hitchcock].
- A collection of very brief stories about historical figures and ordinary men, which extoll such virtues as courage, heroism, and justice.
- Pages of illustrations printed on one side only.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 905310466
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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