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Begins with July, 1890, of American

its Twenty-fourth Volume.

The Best Historical Monthly in the World.

HIS is the only magazine devoted entirely to history, and the

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THE STORY

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EDITED BY ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS.

Issued in handsome 8vo volumes, at $1.50, and profusely illustrated.

This admirable series forms a new departure in historical literature in so far as it seeks to present in vivid and popular setting the main facts in the real " 'Story" of every State in the American Union. The design of the series is to detach the records of the several States from the domain of prosaic historical record, and to infuse into the narratives a life and vigor that shall interest all Americans-young and old-in the romance, the daring, the persistent and practical endeavor that developed the various Commonwealths into one great and free Republic.

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THE FOLLOWING VOLUMES HAVE ALREADY APPEARED :

THE STORY OF NEW YORK. By ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS.

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The story of New York is an initial volume of a series which Mr. Brooks is to edit, and it would be difficult to find an author better equipped for beginning such a series or editing it."-Detroit Free Press.

THE STORY OF OHIO. By ALEXANDER BLACK.

“One of the warm, lively, picturesque narrations, lighted up with bits of personal, human interest, and clear glimpses of a people's every-day life, which will closely interest the general reader.”—Chicago Times.

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THE STORY OF VERMONT. By JOHN L. HEATON.

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THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER.

8vo, illustrated, $2.50. (Nearly ready.)

By ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS.

This book seeks to weld into a consecutive narrative the deeds and progress of the fighting men of America from the earliest days to the present time. Mound-builders and Indians, Spanish conquistadores and colonial volunteers, minute men and continentals, the defenders of 1812, the men of the Mexican War and the “Boys of '61" find their appropriate place. The result is an entertaining and connected narrative, spiced with anecdote, lighted up with deeds of heroism, and so mixing statistic with story as to give a picturesque but practical record of the doings of the American soldier both in war and peace.

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By ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS.

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REFERENCES.

PROF. EDWARD E. SALISBURY, New Haven, Conn.
DR. JAMES K. THACHER, New Haven, Conn.

REV. WM. T. SABINE, 960 Madison Ave., New York.

REV. BENJAMIN W. BÁCON, Lyme, Conn.

MR. CHAS. H. LUDINGTON, 276 Madison Ave., New York. MRS. MARTHA J. LAMB, "Magazine of American History," 743 Broadway, New York.

MISS HELENE HESSE, 36 West 21st Street, New York.
MR. E. S. LANE, 745 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill.

MR. DANIEL R. NOYES, St. Paul, Minn.

JUDGE JOHN H. BOALT, San Francisco, Cal.

MISS ALICE E. FREEMAN, Ph.D., Pres. of Wellesley College.
MISS K. E. COMAN, Ph.B., Prof. of History, Wellesley College.
REV. A. F. NEWTON, Marlboro, Mass.

MR. SAMUEL BOWLES, Springfield, Mass.

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