The Junior Classics, Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism

About this eBook

Editor

Patten, William, 1868-1936

Credits

Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Children's literature

Category

Text

eBook-No.

6302

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6302

Release Date

August 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A LIBRARY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS — VOLUME SEVEN
2. 2.CONTENTS — PREFACE
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS — CATHERINE DOUGLAS THRUST HER ARM THROUGH THE EMPTY STAPLES — HE SHOOK HIS CLENCHED FIST AT THE OBSTRUCTED SEA-STRAIT — "FIGHT ON!" CRIED THE MAID; "THE PLACE IS OURS" — THEN HE OFFERED A FERVENT PRAYER OF THANKS
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.HOW PHIDIAS HELPED THE IMAGE-MAKER
6. 6.THE FIGHT AT THE PASS OF THERMOPYLÆ
7. 7.THE BRAVERY OF REGULUS
8. 8.THE RABBI WHO FOUND THE DIADEM
9. 9.HOW LIVIA WON THE BROOCH
10. 10.JULIUS CÆSAR CROSSING THE RUBICON
11. 11.FEARLESS SAINT GENEVIEVE, PATRON SAINT OF PARIS
12. 12.THE BOY VIKING—OLAF II OF NORWAY
13. 13.THE BOY-HEROES OF CRECY AND POITIERS
14. 14.THE NOBLE BURGHERS OF CALAIS
15. 15.THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC, THE MAID WHO SAVED FRANCE
16. 16.HOW JOAN THE MAID TOOK LARGESS FROM THE ENGLISH
17. 17.DEATH OF JOAN THE MAID
18. 18.HOW CATHERINE DOUGLAS TRIED TO SAVE KING JAMES OF SCOTLAND
19. 19.THE BRAVE QUEEN OF HUNGARY
20. 20.A STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN
21. 21.A SEA-FIGHT IN THE TIME OF QUEEN BESS
22. 22.A BRAVE SCOTTISH CHIEF
23. 23.THE ADVENTURE OF GRIZEL COCHRANE
24. 24.THE SUNKEN TREASURE
25. 25.THE LOST EXILES OF TEXAS
26. 26.THE BOY CONQUEROR—CHARLES XII OF SWEDEN
27. 27.THE TRUE STORY OF A KIDNAPPED BOY AS TOLD BY HIMSELF
28. 28.THE PRISONER WHO WOULD NOT STAY IN PRISON
29. 29.A WHITE BOY AMONG THE INDIANS, AS TOLD BY HIMSELF
30. 30.EVANGELINE OF ACADIA
31. 31.JABEZ ROCKWELL'S POWDER-HORN — A MAN WHO COVETED WASHINGTON'S SHOES
32. 32.A FAMOUS FIGHT BETWEEN AN ENGLISH AND A FRENCH FRIGATE — THE TRICK OF AN INDIAN SPY
33. 33.THE MAN IN THE "AUGER HOLE."
34. 34.THE REMARKABLE VOYAGE OF THE BOUNTY
35. 35.THE TWO BOY HOSTAGES AT THE SIEGE OF SERINGAPATAM
36. 36.THE MAN WHO SPOILED NAPOLEON'S "DESTINY"
37. 37.A FIRE-FIGHTER'S RESCUE FROM THE FLAMES
38. 38.HOW NAPOLEON REWARDED HIS MEN
39. 39.A RESCUE FROM SHIPWRECK
40. 40.REBECCA THE DRUMMER
41. 41.THE MESSENGER
42. 42.HUMPHRY DAVY AND THE SAFETY-LAMP
43. 43.KIT CARSON'S DUEL
44. 44.THE STORY OF GRACE DARLING
45. 45.THE STRUGGLES OF CHARLES GOODYEAR
46. 46.OLD JOHNNY APPLESEED
47. 47.THE LITTLE POST-BOY
48. 48.HOW JUNE FOUND MASSA LINKUM
49. 49.THE STORY OF A FOREST FIRE

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