Verily this Island of Manhattan is exposed to the danger of being snowed under by the showers of works scattered broadcast by her chroniclers, her eulogists, and her critics. Plentiful has been the crop...

The epic of American expansion has had many chroniclers. Romance is wedded to heroism and rich achievement crowned high endeavor. In this present volume is woven the golden thread of that romantic and...

This is one of the most important source books of American history. General Heath's memoirs, which were originally published in 1798, are of direct value to the student of the war of the Revolution, constituting...

Good to look at and pleasant to read are the sketches of old colonial times entitled "Rambles in Colonial Byways.". In them the author sets forth in pleasing style the result of his observations during...

The writer who undertakes to tell the story of Washington confronts a task the like of which is presented by none of its sister cities. The federal capital during its first hundred years of existence...

Mr . Wilson, who is widely and favorably known through his " Rambles in Colonial Byways" and similar works , describes a series of pilgrimages to all the noteworthy literary landmarks of the New England...

A collection of sea stories and folklore. Among the chapters are: The Deep-Sea Diver; An Ocean Flyer's Crew; The Man-of- Warsman; Soldiers who serve afloat; The Police of the Coast; The Ocean Pilot;...

Mr. Wilson's account of the settlement of Long Island by the Dutch and English demands more description than we can give here. The author divides his subject into thirteen chapters, of which eight are...