Four volumes of extracts from diaries and writers who lived in the epochs under consideration. A rich source of information and enjoyment, as are also the following books: _How Our Grandfathers Lived._ _Colonial Children._ _Camps and Firesides of the Revolution._ _Romance of the Civil War._ WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY. _American Revolution._ Selected from his “History of England in the Eighteenth Century.” This with Trevelyan’s “American Revolution” will give American readers the history of the conflict from a British point of view. JAMES LONGSTREET. _From Manassas to Appomattox._ To be read in conjunction with the Memoirs by Grant, Porter, Sherman, Gordon, Alexander, and other Union and Confederate generals. FRANCIS PARKMAN (1823-93). _The Oregon Trail._ _France and England in North America._ “France and England in North America” is divided into seven parts under the following titles: _Pioneers of France in the New World_; _The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century_; _La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West_; _The Old Régime in Canada_; _Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV_; _A Half Century of Conflict_; _Montcalm and Wolfe_. JAMES FORD RHODES. _History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850._ THEODORE ROOSEVELT. _American Ideals._ _The Naval War of 1812._ _The Winning of the West._ ELLEN CHURCHILL SEMPLE. _American History and Its Geographic Conditions._ GOLDWIN SMITH. _Canada and the Canadian Question._ _The United States, an Outline of Political History._ GEORGE OTTO TREVELYAN. _American Revolution._ WOODROW WILSON. _Congressional Government: a Study in American Politics._ _History of the American People._ The second work, in five volumes, covers the history of the country from the beginnings to the present time; both readable and trustworthy. GREAT BRITAIN FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626). _History of the Reign of Henry VII._ The first great piece of critical history in our language. HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE. _History of Civilization in England._ THOMAS CARLYLE (1795-1881). _Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches, with Elucidations._ EARL OF CLARENDON (1608-74). _History of the Great Rebellion._ A vivid account of the Cromwellian wars by a royalist. Interesting to read in connection with Carlyle’s “Elucidations” of the letters and speeches of Cromwell. MANDELL CREIGHTON. _Age of Elizabeth._ EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN (1823-92). _History of the Norman Conquest._ _William the Conquerer._ _Growth of the English Constitution from the Earliest Times._ JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE (1818-94). _History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Armada._ SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER. _A Student’s History of England._ _History of England from the Accession of James to the Outbreak of the Civil War._ _History of the Great Civil War._ _History of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate._