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 Their Endeavors, Their Achievements, and Their Times. By E. S. Brooks. 29 full-page illustrations. Beautifully printed and bound

has been written with a twofold purpose: to increase the interest of young readers in historical study, and to show that, even from the earliest ages, manliness and self-reliance have been the chief groundwork of character, and that opportunities for action exist to-day with the boys and girls of this nineteenth century, even as they did ages ago with young Marcus in the forum of Rome, or with young Harry of Monmouth striving for victory on the bloody field of Shrewsbury.

The tales include: Marcus of Rome, the boy magistrate of sixteen (A.D. 137); Brian of Munster, the boy chieftain, (A.D. 948); Olaf of Norway, the boy viking (A.D. 1010); William of Normandy, the boy knight of twelve (A.D. 1040); Baldwin of Jerusalem, the boy crusader (A.D. 1147); Frederick of Hohenstaufen, the sad little beggar prince (A.D. 1207); Harry of Monmouth, the brilliant boy general of seventeen (A.D. 3402); Giovanni of Florence, the boy cardinal (A.D. 1490); Ixtlil of Tezcuco, the fierce young captain (A.D. 1515); Louis of Bourbon, the headstrong boy king (A.D. 1651); Charles of Sweden, the boy conqueror (A.D. 1699); Van Rensselaer of Rensselaerswyck, the patriotic boy patroon (A.D. 1777).