Front Matter

Preface

THIS book is intended to be used as a supplementary reading book for the fourth and fifth grades of our public schools, and for any other young people from ten to fifteen years of age. It is also designed as a collateral reading book in connection with the formal study of the numerous elementary textbooks on English history.

The authors have attempted to set forth in some detail a series of dramatic and picturesque events in English history from the earliest times to the present day. These events have been carefully compiled and rewritten from standard books and authors. The story form has been freely used, because experience in the schoolroom shows that such an arrangement usually serves to arouse a lively interest in historical reading and to stimulate a laudable ambition to read more advanced books written for young people on similar subjects.

It is suggested that teachers and others supplement the text of this book with such other historical material as may be readily obtained from school, home, or the public libraries.

July, 1912.