The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 16, February 25, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various
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=Evolution of Empire Series= UNITED STATES BY MARY PLATT PARMELE AUTHOR OF ="Who? When? What?" "France," "Germany," "England," Etc.= Price, Post-paid 75 Cents * * * * * _From New York Sun Editorial Dec._ 30, 1896. In too many of the little school histories there is but a tedious, bare narrative of apparently unconnected facts, and there is a profitless rigmarole of dates and names: but when the sequence of cause and effect is not obscured, and form and life are given to the actors, and the development of events and institutions is traced, the story of the United States becomes, as it should become, the most, fascinating as it is the most important of histories to Americans; and whatever in historical |
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