EouGH ANDE eadt is presented to the public as the fourth volume of the Eagged Dick Series, aud, like two of its predecessors, was contributed as a serial to the Schoolmate, a popular juvenile magazine. I ts second title, Life among the New York Newsboys, describes its character and purpose. While the young hero may be regarded as a favorable example of his class, the circumstances of his lot, aggravated by the persecutions of an intemperate parent, are unfortunately too common, as any one at all familiar with th Chistory of the neglected street children in our cities will readily acknowledge. If Eough and Eeady has more virtues and fewer faults than most of his class, his history will at least teach the valuable lesson that honesty and good principles are not incompatible even with the greatest social disadvantages, and will, it is hoped, serve as an incentive and stimulus to the young people who may read it. New Tokk, Dec. 26, 1869.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org

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The scene of this story is laid in France during latter part of the Thirty Years' War---the time of Richelieu, of Mazarin and Anne of Austria.  The hero, Hector Campbell, is the orphaned son of a Scottish officer in the French Army.  Date:  1640 Location:  Europe, Germany, France Main Event:  Thirty Years' War

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... to prayer to the Khatib's sermon. When I told him I had not heard the sermon, nor seen the preacher or his camel, he demanded why, and--what else was there to do, O Prince?--I related how we had been pursued by the terrible Yellow Air; how it had overtaken me; how I fell down dying at the corner of the Kaaba, and by whom I was saved even as the life was departing. This last directed him to you. My efforts to put him ofl:' but whetted his desire. He would not be diverted or denied. He insisted--urged--threatened. At last I told him all--of your joining us with the Hajj from El Khatif--your rank and train--your marches in the rear--the hundreds of miserables you saved from the plague--of our meeting at Zaribah, your hospitality, your learning in all that pertains to the greatest of the prophets, your wisdom above the wisdom of other men. And you grew upon him as I proceeded. ' Oh, a good man truly!' ' What courage! ' ' What charity! ' ' The Prophet himself!' 'Oh, that I had been you!' 'O foolish Mirza, to suffer such a man to escape! ' With such exclamations he kept breaking up my story. It was not long until he fastened upon our meeting in the tent. He plied me to know of what we talked--what you said, and all you said. O Prince, if you did but know him; if you knew the soul possessing him, the intellectual things he has mastered, his sagacity, his art, his will, his day-dreams pursuing him in sleep, the deeds he is prepared to do, the depth and strength of his passions, his admiration for heroes, his resolve to ring the world with the greatness of his name--Oh, knew you the man as I do, were you his lover as I am, his confidant--had you, for teaching him to ride and strike with s...

The Prince of India: Or, Why Constantinople Fell (WALLACE, SUSAN E. POLYGLOT PRESS GEN. LEW AND SUSAN WALLACE SERIES.)

WALLACE, LEW

Originally published in 1887.  This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.  All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

The Fair God: Or, the Last of the 'tzins (WALLACE, SUSAN E. POLYGLOT PRESS GEN. LEW AND SUSAN WALLACE SERIES.)

Lew Wallace was first an Indiana lawyer whose leadership and talent for action won him fame in the Civil War. Brash, handsome and charismatic, he quickly rose from colonel of a volunteer regiment to major-general of a division. A popular hero in western Virginia and the capture of Fort Donelson, he later saw his military career nearly ruined at Shiloh, where a series of disastrous miscommunications delayed his division's arrival on the field. 
Embroiled in controversy, determined to return to the field, Wallace helped turn aside Confederate invasions of Kentucky and Ohio and was hailed as the savior of Cincinnati. In 1864, Abraham Lincoln made him a military governor in Maryland, where he seized an opportunity for redemption. Assembling a small Union force at an obscure railway point called Monocacy Junction, Wallace blocked Confederate General Jubal Early's path to Washington. Fighting desperately against long odds, he lost the battle but delayed Early's rebel army long enough to prevent it from seizing the capital-a sacrifice unparalleled in the history of the republic. 
Adapted from Lew Wallace: An Autobiography, published in 1906, this book offers the sights and sounds of the Civil War filtered through the memory of a keen-eyed romantic.

Smoke, Sound And Fury: The Civil War Memoirs of Major-general Lew Wallace, U. S. Volunteers

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