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CATALOGUE OF BOOKS.

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Cook

Besant, W. Captain Cook.

N. Y., Macmillan, 1890 75c

One of the best of the " English men of action " series.

Cooper

Lounsbury, T. R. James Fenimore Cooper. (American men of letters.)

Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1895 $1.25

In every respect an admirable specimen of the difficult art of biographical writing.

Cortez

Abbott, J. History of Hernando Cortez.

N. Y., Harper & Bros., n. d. $1

The career of Cortez is one of the most wild and adventurous recorded in the annals of fact or fiction.

Crockett

Ellis, E. S. Life of Crockett.

Phila., Porter & Coates, 1894 $1.25

Born to privation, hardship and labor, trained in the severe school of experience, he exhibited true manliness, honesty and bravery in all his words and actions.

Curtis

Gary, E. George W. Curtis.

Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894 $1.25

While the treatment of Curtis as a man of letters is ample, its chief merit is that it has pictured one of the noblest characters in American public life.

Cyrus

Abbot, J. History of Cyrus the great.

N. Y., Harper & Bros., n. d. $1

A very clear and complete biography

Dewey

Barrett, J. Admiral George Dewey.

Il.N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1899 $1.25

The advantage of this volume audits value over other lives of the great admiral lie in the intimate association the author had with him.

Edwards

Allen, A. V. G. Jonathan Edwards.

Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891 $1.25

An interesting biography of this stern puritan.