A POPULAR SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, IN WHICH ARE INSERTED AS PART OF THE NARRATIVE SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF EMINENT AMERICAN TO WHICH ARE ADDED The Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States, with Copious Notes. FULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS, PORTRAITS, AND VIEWS BY JOHN J. ANDERSON, PH.D., Author of a "Grammar School History of the United States," a "Manual of General 20851 A Junior Class History of the United States. Dlustrated with hundreds of portraits, views, maps, etc. 272 pages. 16mo. A Grammar School History of the United States. Annotated; and illustrated with numerous portraits and views, and with more than forty maps, many of which are colored. 340 pp. 16mo. A Pictorial School History of the United States. Fully illustrated with maps, portraits, vignettes, etc. 420 pp. 12mo. A Popular School History of the United States, in which are inserted as a part of the narrative selections from the writings of eminent American historians and other American writers of note. Fully illustrated with maps, colored and plain; portraits, views, etc. 356 pp. 12mo. A Manual of General History. nlustrated with numerous engravings and with beautifully colored maps showing the changes in the political divisions of the world, and giving the location of important places. 488 pp. 12mo.. A School History of England. Illustrated with numerous engravings and with colored maps showing the geographical changes in the country at aifferent periods. 332 pp. 12mo. A School History of France. Illustrated with numerons en gravings, colored and uncolored maps. 373 pp. 12mo. A History of Rome. Amply illustrated with maps, plans, and engravings. 543 pp. By R. F. LEIGHTON, Ph.D. (Lips.). A School History of Greece. In preparation. Anderson's Bloss's Ancient History. Illustrated with engravings, colored maps, and a chart. 445 pp. 12mo. The Historical Reader, embracing selections in prose and verse from standard writers of Ancient and Modern History; with a Vocabulary of Difficult Words, and Biographical and Geographical Indexes. 514 pp. 12mo. The United States Reader, embracing selections from emirent American historians, orators, statesmen, and poets, with explanatory observations. no'es, etc. Arranged so as to form a Class-manual of United States History. Illustrated with colored historical maps. 414 pp. 12mo. CLARK & MAYNARD, Publishers, 771 Broadway, New York. Copyright, 1879, by J. ANDERSON. PREFACE. A TEXT-BOOK upon the history of our country so compiled as to be a pleasant reading-book, with enough variety to give it all the interest properly belonging to a reading-book, and, at the same time, contain all the United States history that is required for ordinary school purposes, has long been desired by many teachers. It has been the aim of the author of this work to meet this want. He has realized, however, that to undertake the preparation of the work without outside assistance would surely end in failure, for no such undertaking could possibly have within itself the elements of variety so necessary in a school reader. But variety, merely as such, is of no special importance. It is that variety which not only elevates, but cultivates and ennobles the mind of the pupil-a variety only to be obtained by selecting from the writings that have met the approval of men of judgment and scholarship. The plan carried out in this volume, it is believed, fully accomplishes this object. The works of all the American writers who have distinguished themselves in the domain of historic authorship, have been diligently consulted; and, as far as seemed possible consistently with the size and scope of the undertaking in hand, these authors have been made to contribute to the contents of the volume. It may, therefore, be said to be the work of many-fifty or more—of our est writers, past as well as present; and, in addition to its merits as a continuous historical narrative, it may be regarded as a text-book for young students in American literature. To know something of Bancroft, Palfrey, Prescott, Motle, Haw |