A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS PEOPLE. FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS. BY EDWARD EGGLESTON. Dr. Eggleston's new History of the United States is one of the most interesting and attractive school-books ever published. The author has used his art as a storyteller, and his experience as a writer, to make American history something living, human, and real, and therefore delightful. The illustrations have been secured from original sources, and the artists engaged upon the work include some of the most noted and expert in this country. CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Sept. 22, 1888. "Dr. Eggleston has prepared not only a new American text-book, but he has prepared it on a plan combining so many advantages that Americans many years out of school will find it delightful reading, although primarily designed for school use. There is compacted in it a narrative of our development from the earliest times to the present. Adorning and enlivening it are maps which keep pace with the story and make familiar by colors and drawings, specially contrived for episodes and epochs, all the surroundings which fasten not merely events but their full significance on the mind. These maps are to be cordially commended. The literary style of the book is worthy of its scholastic character. Edward Eggleston has long loved the function of the teacher. He has long practiced the art of writing good English. Combining that spirit and this art, he offers what will probably not be challenged as the most pleasing, the most convenient, and the most fascinating popular text yet produced upon the subject that ought to be dearest to American youth." Introduction price, $1.05. Copies for examination mailed to teachers at the introduction price. Send for specimen pages. D. APPLETON & CO., PUBLISHERS, New York, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco. |