"Such a book is well fitted to strengthen the courage and inspiration of every woman who is learning to comprehend something of the inherent nobleness and glory of her sex."--_Hartford Daily Times._ "Wise mothers will give this volume to their daughters. Conscientious teachers will read it to their scholars."--_Interior._ FAMOUS VOYAGERS AND EXPLORERS. By SARAH K. BOLTON. With portraits of Raleigh, Sir John Franklin, Magellan, Dr. Kane, Greely, Livingstone, and others. 12mo. $1.50. OTHER VOLUMES IN PREPARATION. _For sale by all booksellers, or sent, postpaid, upon receipt of price by the publishers. Catalogues sent free upon application._ THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., NEW YORK AND BOSTON. Mrs. Sarah Knowles Bolton Comes from good New England ancestry; descended on her father's side from Henry Knowles, who came to Rhode Island from London, England, in 1635, and on her mother's side from Colonel Nathaniel Stanley, of Hartford, Conn., one of the leading men of the colony, and from Colonel William Pynchon, one of the twenty-six incorporators of Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was graduated from the Hartford Seminary, established by Catharine Beecher; published a volume of poems, and in 1860 married Charles E. Bolton, A.M., of Massachusetts, an Amherst College graduate of '65. They removed to Cleveland, O., where, besides writing for various periodicals, she did much charitable work. She was secretary of the Woman's Christian Association, and Asst. Cor. Sec. of the Nat. W. C. T. U. She has twice visited Europe, spending two years in England, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Norway, and Sweden studying literary and educational matters, and the means used by employers for the mental and moral elevation of their employees. On the latter subject she read a paper before the American Social Science Association in 1883. She was for three years one of the editors of the Boston _Congregationalist_. She prepared several small books for the Cleveland Educational Bureau, conducted gratuitously by her husband, and described by Dr. Washington Gladden in the _Century_ magazine, January, 1885. The Bureau was discontinued when Mr. Bolton gave his time to lecturing. [Illustration] Mrs. Bolton has written: How Success is Won, 1884; Poor Boys who became Famous, 1885; Girls who became Famous, 1886; Stories from Life (fiction), 1886; Social Studies in England, 1886; Famous American Authors, 1887; From Heart and Nature (poems), 1887, half the book written by her son, Charles Knowles Bolton, Harvard College, class '90; Famous American Statesmen, 1888; Some Successful Women, 1888; Famous Men of Science, 1889; Famous English Authors of the Nineteenth Century, 1890; Famous European Artists, 1890; Famous English Statesmen of Queen Victoria's Reign, 1891; Famous Types of Womanhood, 1892. Miss Frances E. Willard says of Mrs. Bolton, "She is one of the best-informed women in America, the chief woman biographer of our times."