TRUE STORIES OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

By Nathaniel Hawthorne


BIOGRAPHICAL STORIES


CONTENTS:

BENJAMIN WEST.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
OLIVER CROMWELL.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
QUEEN CHRISTINA.




BIOGRAPHICAL STORIES

This small volume and others of a similar character, from the same hand,
have not been composed without a deep sense of responsibility. The
author regards children as sacred, and would not, for the world, cast
anything into the fountain of a young heart that might imbitter and
pollute its waters. And, even in point of the reputation to be aimed
at, juvenile literature is as well worth cultivating as any other. The
writer, if he succeed in pleasing his little readers, may hope to be
remembered by them till their own old age,--a far longer period of