1. GENERAL WORKS. The most comprehensive and readable account is contained in Mr. Fiske's larger work, _The American Revolution_, in two volumes. The subject is best treated from the biographical point of view in Washington Irving's _Life of Washington_, vols. i.-iv. Mr. Fiske has abridged and condensed these four octavos into one stout duodecimo entitled _Washington and his Country_, Boston, Ginn & Co., 1887. Our young friends may find Frothingham's _Rise of the Republic_ rather close reading, but one can hardly name a book that will more richly reward them for their study. Green's _Historical View of the Revolution_ should be read by every one. Carrington's _Battles of the Revolution_ makes the military operations quite clear with numerous maps. Very young readers find it interesting to begin with Coffin's _Boys of Seventy-Six_, or C. H. Woodman's _Boys and Girls of the Revolution_. The social life of the time is admirably portrayed in Scudder's _Men and Manners in America One Hundred Years Ago_. See also Thornton's _Pulpit of the Revolution_. Lossing's _Field Book of the Revolution_--two royal octavos profusely illustrated--is an excellent book to browse in. Lecky's _England in the Eighteenth Century_ gives an admirable statement of England's position. 2. BIOGRAPHIES. Lodge's _George Washington_, 2 vols., Scudder's _George Washington_, Tyler's _Patrick Henry_, Tudor's _Otis_, Hosmer's _Samuel Adams_, Morse's _John Adams_, Frothingham's _Warren_, Quincy's _Josiah Quincy_, Parton's _Franklin_ and _Jefferson_, Fonblanque's _Burgoyne_, Lossing's _Schuyler_, Riedesel's _Memoirs_, Stone's _Brant_, Arnold's _Arnold_, Sargent's _André_, Kapp's _Steuben_ and _Kalb_, Greene's _Greene_, Amory's _Sullivan_, Graham's _Morgan_, Simms's _Marion_, Abbott's _Paul Jones_, John Adams's _Letters to his Wife_, Morse's _Hamilton_, Gay's _Madison_, Roosevelt's _Gouverneur Morris_, Russell's _Fox_, Albemarle's _Rockingham_, Fitzmaurice's _Shelburne_, MacKnight's _Burke_, Macaulay's essay on _Chatham_. 3. FICTION. Cooper's _Chainbearer_, Miss Sedgwick's _Linwoods_, Paulding's _Old Continental_, Mrs. Child's _Rebels_, Motley's _Morton's Hope_, Herman Melville's _Israel Potter_, Kennedy's _Horse Shoe Robinson_. There is an account of the battle of Bunker Hill in Cooper's _Lionel Lincoln_. Thompson's _Green Mountain Boys_ gives interesting descriptions of many of the events in that region. The border warfare is treated in Grace Greenwood's _Forest Tragedy_ and Hoffman's _Greyslaer_. Simms's _Partisan_ and _Mellichampe_ deal with events in South Carolina in 1780, and later events are covered in his _Scout_, _Katharine Walford_, _Woodcraft_, _Forayers_, and _Eutaw_. See also Miss Sedgwick's _Walter Thornley_, and Cooper's _Pilot_ and _Spy_, and H. C. Watson's _Camp Fires of the Revolution_. The scenes of _Paul and Persis_, by Mary E. Brush, are laid in the Mohawk Valley.