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Excerpt from Historical and Biographical Narratives This volume of historical and biographical stories is offered to young readers as a stepping-stone to history. The subjects treated are those named in the syllabus for the first half of the fifth school year, in the course of study prescribed for the elementary schools of the city of New York. Although the work has been prepared to meet the needs especially of teachers and pupils in the New York schools, yet the author confidently hopes that it will prove to be equally valuable elsewhere, and will serve its purpose well as an easy and helpful introduction to the broad field of general history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.