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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
P. F. Collier,
1903.
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| Series: | Library for young people ;
[v. 12]. |
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Table of Contents:
- The hero as poet--Dante: Shakespeare
- Milton
- John Bunyan
- Addison
- Steele
- Burns
- Sir Walter Scott
- Nil nisi bonum [Washington Irving]--Dr. Arnold
- Audubon, the ornithologist
- Prison reform [John Howard]--The abolition of the slave-trade [William Wilberforce]--Penny postage [Sir Rowland Hill]--The introduction of gas [Murdock, Winsor, Clegg, and others]--The steam-engine and its application to locomotion by land and water [Watt, Stephenson, Fulton, and Bell]--Robert Stephenson
- The electric telegraph [Cooke, Wheatstone, and others]