D. APPLETON & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. 
" This work marks an eprch in the history-writing 
of this country." Si. Louis Post-Dispatch. 
COLONIAL COURT-HOUSE. 
PHILADELPHIA, 1707. 
'HE IIO USEHOLD HIS- 
TORY OF THE UNITED 
STA TES AA T D ITS PEOPLE. 
FOR YOUNG AMERICANS. By ED- 
WARD EGGLESTON. Richly illus- 
trated with 350 Drawings, 75 Maps, 
etc. Square Svo. Cloth, $2.50. 
FK OH THE PREFACE. 
The present work is meant, in the first instance, for the young- not alone 
for boys and girls, but for young men and women who Lave yet to make 
themselves familiar with the more important features of their country's 
history. By a book for the young is meant one in which the author studies to 
make his statements clear and explicit, in which curious and picturesque de- 
tails are inserted, and in which the writer does not neglect such anecdotes as 
lend the charm of a human and personal interest to the broader facts of the 
nation's story. That history is often tiresome to the young is not so much 
the fault of history as of a false method of writing by which one contrives 
to relate events without sympathy or imagination, without narrative connec- 
tion or animation. The attempt to master vague and general records of 
kiln-dried facts is certain to beget in the ordinary reader a repulsion from 
the study of history one of the very most important of all studies for its 
widening influence on general culture. 
"Fills a decided gap which has existed for 
the past twenty years in American historical 
literature. The work is admirably planned 
and executed, and will at once tiike its place as 
a standard record of the life, growth, and de- 
velopment of the nation. It is profusely and 
beautifully illustrated." Boston Transcript. 
" The book in its new dress makes a much 
finer appearance than 
before, and will be wel- 
comed by older readers 
asg'adlyasitspredeces- INDIAN'S TRAP. 
sor was greeted by girls 
anJ boys. The lavish use the publishers have made of colored 
plates, woodcuts, and photographic reproductions, gives an un- 
wonted piquancy to the printed page, catching the eye as surely 
as the text engages the miiid." New York Critic. 
v , "The author writes history as a story. It can 'never be 
less than that. The book will enlist the interest of young 
people, enlighten their understanding, and by the glow of its 
statements fix the great events of the country firmly in the 
GENERAL PUTNAM mind." San Francisco Bulletin. 
New York: D. APPLETON & CO., i, 3, & 5 Bond Street. 
