Transcriber’s Notes Italic text is enclosed in _underscores_; boldface is enclosed in =equals signs=. The original book did not have a Table of Contents. Transcriber added one to this eBook by copying the Chapter names from the text. Additional notes will be found near the end of this eBook. ☞ _Slips for Librarians to paste on Catalogue Cards._ N.B.--Take out carefully, leaving about a quarter of an inch at the back. To do otherwise would, in some cases, release other leaves. =ALDEN, WILLIAM L.= CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1440–1506). The First American Citizen (By Adoption). By William L. Alden. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1881. 16mo, pp. 287. (Lives of American Worthies). =COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER=, (1440–1506). The First American Citizen (By Adoption). By William L. Alden. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1881. 16mo, pp. 287. (Lives of American Worthies). =HISTORY.= CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1440–1506). The First American Citizen (By Adoption). By William L. Alden. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1881. 16mo, pp. 287. (Lives of American Worthies). _LIVES OF AMERICAN WORTHIES._ Under the above title, Messrs. HENRY HOLT & CO. are contributing one more biographical series to the number with which the reading world is being so abundantly favored. That there may be something in the method of this series not altogether identical with that of its numerous predecessors, contemporaries and promised successors, will perhaps be suspected from the list of subjects and authors thus far selected: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, (1440–1506), By W. L. ALDEN, (_of the New York Times_), _Author of “The Moral Pirates,” etc._ CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH, (1579–1631), By CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, _Author of “My Summer in a Garden,” etc._ WILLIAM PENN, (1644–1715), By ROBERT J. BURDETTE, _of the Burlington Hawkeye_. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, (1706–1790), By GEORGE WASHINGTON, (1732–1799), By JOHN HABBERTON, _Author of “Helen’s Babies,” etc._ THOMAS JEFFERSON, (1743–1826), By ANDREW JACKSON, (1767–1845), By GEORGE T. LANIGAN, _Author of “Fables out of the World._” If the names of the authors awaken a suspicion that there may be something humorous in the books, it should be known that despite anything of that kind, the truth of history is adhered to with most uncompromising rigidity--perhaps, in some cases, a little too uncompromising, or compromising: that depends on the point of view. Recent announcements make it proper to state that this series was begun several years before the date of this prospectus, and that the first volume published--Mr. Charles Dudley Warner’s Life of Captain John Smith, was in type in the Spring of the current year. _New York_, November, 1881. _LIVES OF AMERICAN WORTHIES_ CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1440–1506)