A Truthful Woman in Southern California

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History of the People of the United States,

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The Beginners of a Nation.

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The Transit of Civilization,

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The Household History of the United States and its People.

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Father Marquette, the Explorer of the Mississippi. By Reuben Gold Thwaites, Editor of “The Jesuit Relations,” etc.

Daniel Boone. By Reuben Gold Thwaites, Editor of “The Jesuit Relations,” “Father Marquette,” etc.

Horace Greeley. By William A. Linn, Author of “The Story of the Mormons.”

Sir William Johnson. By Augustus C. Buell, Author of “Paul Jones, Founder of the American Navy.”

Anthony Wayne. By John R. Spears.

Champlain: The Founder of New France. By Edwin Asa Dix, M.A., LL.D., Formerly Fellow in History in Princeton University; Author of “Deacon Bradbury,” “A Midsummer Drive through the Pyrenees,” etc.

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Horace Greeley.

By William A. Linn, Author of “The Story of the Mormons”; formerly Managing Editor of the New York Evening Post. Illustrated. 12 mo. Cloth, $1.00 net; postage, 10 cents additional.

It is remarkable that so little has been written about Greeley since he died; in fact, since Parton’s book appeared, just before the civil war, no one has undertaken a comprehensive life of Greeley. Greeley’s own autobiography, which he called “Recollections of a Busy Life,” has been the only later work of note to which readers could go, and that book has not been in general circulation for a great many years. Mr. Linn’s volume, therefore, should have a large public waiting to receive it. The character of Horace Greeley is studied by Mr. Linn in his editorial work. He traces his opinions as set forth in his editorial writings. In this way he shows how he “grew up” to his earnest advocacy of a protective tariff; how he became the most powerful opponent of the extension of the slave power, after looking on the subject almost with indifference in his earlier years; his curious inconsistencies during the civil war, when he was a source of constant interference with the Administration at Washington; and the circumstances that led to his selection as the Liberal candidate for President in 1872.

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The Autobiography of Joseph Le Conte.

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Professor Le Conte was widely known as a man of science, and notably as a geologist. His later years were spent at the University of California. But his early life was passed in the South; there he was born and spent his youth; there he was living when the civil war brought ruin to his home and his inherited estate. His reminiscences deal with phases of life in the South that have unfailing interest to all students of American history. His account of the war as he saw it has permanent value. He was in Georgia when Sherman marched across it. Professor Le Conte knew Agassiz, and writes charmingly of his associations with him.

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