Historic Boys

Complete and unabridged, with 33 full-page plates by Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt and Jasper Francis Cropsey. Boys who became historic figures shown at the age of their readers: Marcus Aurelius, Brian of Munster, Olaf of Norway, William of Normandy, Harry of Monmouth, Louis XIV, Charles XII of Sweden and a Dutch patroon of New York. Elbridge Brooks wrote a shelf of such books for Americ...