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Featured Series: Makers of England
This life story of William the Conqueror, telling of his boyhood in Normandy, beset by dangers, is written with great flourish in a manner that is especially appealing to young boys. From his earliest...
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British History Core Reading Selections
I must tell you, though, that this is not a history lesson, but a story-book. There are many facts in school histories that seem to children to belong to lessons only. Some of these you will not find...
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Poem: Danegeld by Rudyard Kipling
From the ninth through the 11th centuries, Saxon England was prey to hordes of Danish pirates, or Vikings. Under Alfred the Great, the Saxons rose to the challenge, fought off the Danes, and made...
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Young Reader Favorites: Stories from Beowulf
This volume retells the wonderful story of Beowulf, hero of the great Anglo-Saxon saga, in the manner of a folktale, so it has great appeal to children of all ages. It tells the story of how Beowulf,...
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October Give-away: Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, by E. Nesbit, includes twenty romantic stories, each based on one of Shakespeare’s plays. These beautifully illustrated stories are retold in lively prose by an...
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The Hero of Trafalgar: The Story of Horatio Nelson
His object was, as ever, destruction, and complete destruction, of the enemy, no matter what loss he himself might sustain. “In cases where signals cannot be seen or clearly understood, no captain can...
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Abraham Lincoln’s Favorite History Series
“I want to thank you and your brother for Abbott’s series of Histories. I have not education enough to appreciate the profound works of voluminous historians, and if I had, I have no time to read them....
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The Massacre of a British Regiment
The battery was reached; but too late! All around it lay the dead gunners, and a goodly number of Zulus. With startling rapidity the foe had fallen upon the battery, surrounding it so that escape was...
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The Execution of an English King and American Liberties
Charles refused to plead, except before a lawful authority. “It is not my case alone,” he said; “it is the freedom and liberty of the people of England; and do you pretend what you will, I stand more...
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American Liberties from the Outside, Looking in
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness....
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