. Little Lord Fauntleroy . EARLY PRINTING-PRESS. WOOL-WHEEL. SPINNING-WHEEL. SCRIBNERS BOOKS FOT{ THE YOUNG. AMONG THE •Senatorial page. His record of the memorablescenes and events which came under his ob-servation is enlivened by anecdotes of publicmen, humorous and exciting episodes at thenational capitol, and a great variety of stirringincidents; but the purpose of the book is amore serious one. It is, to exhibit by practicalexamples the constitutional relations betweenthe three departments of government, and bytouching upon every interesting feature of Con-gressional power an
. Little Lord Fauntleroy . EARLY PRINTING-PRESS. WOOL-WHEEL. SPINNING-WHEEL. SCRIBNERS BOOKS FOT{ THE YOUNG. AMONG THE •Senatorial page. His record of the memorablescenes and events which came under his ob-servation is enlivened by anecdotes of publicmen, humorous and exciting episodes at thenational capitol, and a great variety of stirringincidents; but the purpose of the book is amore serious one. It is, to exhibit by practicalexamples the constitutional relations betweenthe three departments of government, and bytouching upon every interesting feature of Con-gressional power and procedure, to place inthe possession of the reader a clear idea of themethods of this branch of our government, andto enable him to understand and criticise intel-ligently the proceedings of our national rep-resentatives. Although the book is addressedto the younger generation there are not a fewof their elders who will find much informationin it that they may be glad to gain, and bothyoung and old cannot but be delighted withMr. Altons reminiscences of one of the mostexciting periods of our history, that fo
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