How long is it since Columbus discovered America? What is said about the celebration of that discovery? What is said about one of the great seals of the United States? What does the unfinished pyramid stand for? What does it show us? What is said of the men whose lives we have read in this book? Is anything left for us to do? A SHORT LIST OF BOOKS OF REFERENCE (_For the Use of Teachers._) This brief list is arranged alphabetically. It consists, with a few exceptions, of small, one-volume biographies; all of which are believed to be of acknowledged merit. A much fuller reference list will be found in the appendix to the author's larger work, entitled _The Leading Facts of American History_. Balboa: Irving's Companions of Columbus, and Winsor's America, Vol. II. Baltimore, Lord: William H. Browne's Lords Baltimore;[3] G. W. Burnap's Baltimore.[1] Boone, Daniel: C. B. Hartley's Boone (including Boone's autobiography); J. M. Peck's Boone;[1] and see the excellent sketch of Boone's life in Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West, Vol. I. Cabot (John and Sebastian): J. F. Nicholls's Cabot; C. Hayward's Cabot.[1] Clark, George Rogers: see Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West, Vol. II. Columbus: Irving's Columbus, abridged edition; Charles K. Adams's Columbus;[3] Edward Everett Hale's Columbus. De Leon: Irving's Companions of Columbus, and Winsor's America, Vol. II. De Soto: see Winsor's America, Vol. II. Franklin, Benjamin: D. H. Montgomery's Franklin (autobiography and continuation of life);[2] John T. Morse's Franklin.[7] Fulton, Robert: J. Renwick's Fulton;[1] R. H. Thurston's Fulton;[3] Thos. W. Knox's Fulton.[4] Gray, Robert: see H. H. Bancroft's Pacific States, Vol. XXII. Harrison, William Henry: H. Montgomery's Harrison; S. J. Burr's Harrison. Houston, Sam: Henry Bruce's Houston;[3] C. E. Lester's Houston. Hudson, Henry: H. R. Cleveland's Hudson.[1] Jackson, Andrew: James Parton's Jackson; W. G. Sumner's Jackson.[7] Jefferson, Thomas: James Schouler's Jefferson;[3] John T. Morse, Jr.'s Jefferson.[7] Lincoln, Abraham: Carl Schurz's Lincoln; Isaac N. Arnold's Lincoln; Noah Brooks's Lincoln;[4] J. G. Holland's Lincoln; F. B. Carpenter's Six Months at the White House with Lincoln. Morse, Samuel F. B.: S. I. Prime's Morse; Denslow and Parke's Morse (Cassell). Oglethorpe, James Edward: Bruce's Oglethorpe;[3] W. B. O. Peabody's Oglethorpe.[1] Penn, William: G. E. Ellis's Penn;[1] W. H. Dixon's Penn; J. Stoughton's Penn. Philip, King: H. M. Dexter's edition of Church's King Philip's War (2 vols.); Richard Markham's King Philip's War. NOTE.--The story of Colonel Goffe's appearance at Hadley during the Indian attack on that town rests on tradition. Some authorities reject it; but Bryant and Gay say (History of the United States, II., 410): "There is no reason for doubting its essential truth."