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The True Story Book
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664611567
Table of Contents
THE 'SHANNON' AND THE 'CHESAPEAKE'
CAPTAIN SNELGRAVE AND THE PIRATES
THE TALE OF ISANDHLWANA AND RORKE'S DRIFT
HOW LEIF THE LUCKY FOUND VINELAND THE GOOD
THE CHEVALIER JOHNSTONE'S ESCAPE FROM CULLODEN
THE ADVENTURES OF LORD PITSLIGO
THE ESCAPE OF CÆSAR BORGIA FROM THE CASTLE OF MEDINA DEL CAMPO
THE CONQUEST OF MONTEZUMA'S EMPIRE
The Beginning of the Expedition
The Siege and Surrender of Mexico.
ADVENTURES OF BARTHOLOMEW PORTUGUES, A PIRATE
THE RETURN OF THE FRENCH FREEBOOTERS [29]
INTRODUCTION
It is not without diffidence that the editor offers The True Story Book to children. We have now given them three fairy books, and their very kind and flattering letters to the editor prove, not only that they like the three fairy books, but that they clamour for more. What disappointment, then, to receive a volume full of adventures which actually happened to real people! There is not a dragon in the collection, nor even a giant; witches, here, play no part, and almost all the characters are grown up. On the other hand, if we have no fairies, we have princes in plenty, and a sweeter young prince than Tearlach (as far as this part of his story goes) the editor flatters himself that you shall nowhere find, not in Grimm, or Dasent, or Perrault. Still, it
