Stories of Many Lands
New York: United States Book Company, 1891. New edition. Hardcover. (1891). Revised and enlarged. Small octavo (6" x 8"), mustard gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. 340pp. Illustrated in black and white by J. H. Boston. Some soil particularly rear board. Former owners' names on front endpaper, one in ink and one in pencil. Good +. Item #16698
"If in this volume I have chosen to tell you some stories about titled people of foreign lands, it is that you may not be so set up by your privileges as little citizens and citizenesses of the great republic, as not to feel kindly and humanly toward even little Lords and Ladies, who, being the slaves of pomp, etiquette, and fine clothes, know nothing about freedom and equality, and good, jolly times; who have no Star-Spangled Banner, and no Fourth of July, and no Thanksgiving, and who have scarcely ever heard of george Washington and General Grant"
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