self.... This is a thoughtful,
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_A MERCIFUL DIVORCE_. By F. W. MAUDE. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth,
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"There have been few more searching studies of the rampant English
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"The book is curiously interesting from the startling side-light it
throws on English society of the upper grades."--_Chicago Times_.

"This work marks an epoch in the history-writing of this country."--_St.
Louis Post-Dispatch_.

_THE HOUSEHOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS PEOPLE_. FOR YOUNG
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[Illustration: COLONIAL COURT-HOUSE. PHILADELPHIA, 1707.]

_FROM 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 have 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 details 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 connection 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 take its place as a standard record of the
life, growth, and development of the nation. It is profusely and
bea