Letters to His Children

Theodore Roosevelt

CHAPTER I BOYHOOD AND YOUTH My grandfather on my father's side was of almost purely Dutch blood.

Theodore Roosevelt

his children during a period of more than twenty years.

Theodore Roosevelt

With an Introduction by Edward K. Eckert CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction _The Naval War of 1812_ Index ILLUSTRATIONS Captain Isaac Hul...

Theodore Roosevelt

WASHINGTON The brilliant historian of the English people [*] has written of Washington, that "no nobler figure ever stood in the fore-front of a nation's life."

Niccolò Machiavelli

by Nicolo Machiavelli Translated by W. K. Marriott Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469.

Frederick Douglass

CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI APPENDIX A PARODY PREFACE In the month of ...

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

All children, except one, grow up.

Hermann Hesse

FIRST PART To Romain Rolland, my dear friend THE SON OF THE BRAHMAN In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the sha...