Lads and Lassies of Other Days (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lads and Lassies of Other Days The child is awakened through the pages of history to a love of literature, or from the pages of literature he is led into the living interest of history. The earliest teaching of history is best begun through biography and the hero tale. But children, at the age when they are entering upon the formal study of the history of their country, are entering also the period of life when fiction, romance, vivid action, and heroes and heroines of their own sort attract most powerfully. The historical novel will not suffice: its scope is too remote, its style too mature. But the cultivation of a taste which may lead to the future enjoyment of historical literature is perhaps as essential as the mere fact-presenting of history, indeed even more essential. Out of the fabric of great historical events or of well-known historical stages in the growth of our country, these little stories have been woven. They cover a period extending from the contentment of the colonies under the maternal care of England to their independence and consciousness of a separate national life. Five of the stories appeared first in the pages of the children's magazine, St. Nicholas. 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.