. Boys' heroes . Goethe, edited by Carrie Adelaide Cook. Those famiHar withthe writings of the great German author, and those who know lit-tle of them, will be alike interested in this collection of bestthoughts. Eloquence, pathos, romance, philosophy — a widerange of sentiment and feeling, characteristic of the life of Goethe— are revealed in these selections. The book is a worthy com-panion to the six preceding volumes of the widely-circulated Spare Minute Series — Thoughts that Breathe, Dean Stan-ley ; Cheerful Words George MacDonald; The Might ofRight, Gladstone ; True Manliness, Thos. Hug
. Boys' heroes . Goethe, edited by Carrie Adelaide Cook. Those famiHar withthe writings of the great German author, and those who know lit-tle of them, will be alike interested in this collection of bestthoughts. Eloquence, pathos, romance, philosophy — a widerange of sentiment and feeling, characteristic of the life of Goethe— are revealed in these selections. The book is a worthy com-panion to the six preceding volumes of the widely-circulated Spare Minute Series — Thoughts that Breathe, Dean Stan-ley ; Cheerful Words George MacDonald; The Might ofRight, Gladstone ; True Manliness, Thos. Hughes; LivingTruths, Charles Kingsley; Right to the Point, Doctor cloth, # LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 0 021 183 801 2. BOSTOND. LOTHROP AND COMPANY FRANKLIN AND HAWLEY STREETS the UBjuir] OF CONGRESIWASHINGTON Copyright, r886, by D. Lothrop & Company. ~3 CONTENTS. I. Hector .... Pagb. 7 II. HORATIUS COCLES 26 III. Alexander the Great 40 IV. Hannibal .... 51 V. King Arthur 69 VI. Richard the Lion Hearted 82 VII. Bayard .... 95 VIII. Robinson Crusoe in IX. Israel Putnam 127 X. General Lafayette . i37 XI. Napoleon the First . l5° XII. Ralph Allestree 164 ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. Robinson Crusoe Frontispiece Hector and Andromache.— From the Bas relief by Thorwaldsen . *5 Where stood the Dauntless Three 28 1 Alone Stood Brave Horatius 31 Alexander the Great 45 / King Arthurs Round Table 70 The Sword Excalibar . 76 Bayards Armor 99 The Young Bayard . 103 Bartholdis Statue of Lafayette 141 Napoleon the First J52 BOYS HEROES. HECTOR. BOYS are jealously exclusive in the choice oftheir heroes, and have not asked some of my younger friends why Hectorwas a boys hero, to receive these replies: Oh, becaus
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