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Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I

Author: Various

Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge
Francis W. Halsey

Release Date: May 1, 2009 [EBook #28653]

Language: English

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[Illustration: EMERSON, IRVING, COOPER, HAWTHORNE]

THE BEST

of the

WORLD'S CLASSICS

RESTRICTED TO PROSE

HENRY CABOT LODGE

Editor-in-Chief

FRANCIS W. HALSEY

Associate Editor

With an Introduction, Biographical and
Explanatory Notes, etc.

IN TEN VOLUMES

Vol. IX

AMERICA--I

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

NEW YORK AND LONDON

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

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The Best of the World's Classics

VOL. IX

AMERICA--I

1579-1891

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CONTENTS

VOL. IX--AMERICA--I

_Page_

JOHN SMITH--(Born in 1579, died in 1631.)
His Story of Pocahontas.
(From the "General History of Virginia") 3

WILLIAM BRADFORD--(Born in 1590, died in 1657.)
The Pilgrims Land and Meet the Indians.
(From the "History of Plymouth") 11

SAMUEL SEWALL--(Born in 1652, died in 1730.)
How He Courted Madam Winthrop.
(From his "Diary")