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Excerpt from Our Little Hindu CousinThe arts and crafts of the Hindus and their trades and professions are very strange and in teresting, and the young people themselves invariably grow up in the same occupations as their elders. There is no mixing of the'rac'es or castes, and members of one caste always as sociate with those of the same class.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mo...

Excerpt from Our Little Dutch CousinIt was from Holland, too, from the little port of Delfshaven, that the Pilgrim Fathers first set sail for the New World, and by this fact alone Holland and America are bound to gether by another very strong link, though this time it was of English forging.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproductio...

Excerpt from Our Little Hindu CousinThe arts and crafts of the Hindus and their trades and professions are very strange and in teresting, and the young people themselves invariably grow up in the same occupations as their elders. There is no mixing of the'rac'es or castes, and members of one caste always as sociate with those of the same class.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mo...

Excerpt from How the Dutch Came to ManhattanAs a nation of sea-farers and traders, the Dutch acquired an enviable reputation, and for them to have so successfully founded a commercial colony was but to have been expected.The history of the city of New York has been ably and exhaustively treated by many notable writers, and to them, as well as to other prolific sources, we are indebted for the verification of our facts.About the PublisherForgot...

Excerpt from How the Dutch Came to ManhattanAs a nation of sea-farers and traders, the Dutch acquired an enviable reputation, and for them to have so successfully founded a commercial colony was but to have been expected.The history of the city of New York has been ably and exhaustively treated by many notable writers, and to them, as well as to other prolific sources, we are indebted for the verification of our facts.About the PublisherForgot...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

How the Dutch Came to Manhattan is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly pu...

Excerpt from Our Little English Cousin The lives of Our Little English Cousins are not so widely different from our own in America. It is only the more ancient associa tions with which they are surrounded that changes their manners and customs. Their speech is the same and their amuse ments and tasks are to a great extent quite similar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more...

Excerpt from Our Little Scotch Cousin As with our little English cousins there is the bond of common speech, and Scotch institutions, though varied and strange in many instances, are in others very similar to those of America. Of the historic and scenic charms of Scot land much has already been written in the romances and poems of Scott and Burns, so that little American cousins may be expected to have at least a nodding acquaintance with th...

Excerpt from Bachelor Ballads: Being Certain of the Masterpieces of Verse, Wherein Is Set Forth the Sentiment Of Oxford's domes: Old Homer blind, Old Horace, rake Anacreon, by Old Tully, Plautus, Terence lie, Mort Arthur's Olden minstrelsie. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Excerpt from The American Woman Abroad Written and Profusely: Illustrated Always she is the most welcome of the throngs of self-invited guests who attend the great annual At Home which the European world holds for the Visit ing strangers, an entertainment that is becoming an all the year around function. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This b...

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Excerpt from The Quaker ColonyThe colony of William Penn thrived and pros pered solely through the efforts of the founder and the justness of the principles which he avowed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, ...

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Blanche McManus (1870-1935) was an American author. She studied in London and Paris, and returned to the U. S. in 1893 where she established a studio in Chicago. By 1895, she was authoring and illustrating a series of children⿿s books, including The True Mother Goose (1895), The Voyage of the Mayflower (1897) and How the Dutch Came to Manhattan (1897). In those same years, she was producing illustrations for other authors⿿ books, often working...