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Excerpt from Olde Cascoe: Ye Romance of Casco Bay It is with hesitant and uncertain step one betakes himself backward into days obliterate as to their living except where some tradition lingers in the semi-obscurity of some musty historical record. The once luminous high-lights of the seventeenth century have dimmed into the far-off glimmer of unfamiliar stars, hardly discernible with the unaided vision, - islands on the distant marge of unkn...

Excerpt from Homestead Highways Nature is the mother of sentiment, and to multitudes of people nothing is more charming in its reminiscent quality than the old New England country life. Away from its quiet homesteads and tree-shadowed highways, into the noisy, crowded ruts of the city, the awakened memories of its old-fashioned and simple habits, its plain fare, its open-handed hospitality, are like beautiful pictures swept clear of years of ...

Excerpt from Indian Wars of New England, Vol. 3 In Europe the war which became known in America as Queen Anne's was designated, with some degree of appropriateness, "The War of the Spanish Succession." In New England it had not attained any marked character as a cause to be maintained until the spring of that year which followed the accession of the English queen, when the depredations on the part of the French and Indians began upon the east...

Excerpt from Indian Wars of New England, Vol. 2 Western Continent. Even the mind of Columbus was tinged with the glow of a lively romance as he argued with the doctors of Salamanca. As early as the first decade of the sixteenth century St. Brandan and the Isles of the Bimini were realities to Juan Ponce de Leon, the conqueror and governor of Porto Rico, and he eagerly sought out the latter that he might restore his shattered health by bath in...

Excerpt from Prose PastoralsThe title to a book is like a door-plate it tells who may be found within, and noth ing more. T 0 know the dwellers well, one must step inside, - must eat of their salt and drink of their pottle more than once. The author can only invite his.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 hist...

Excerpt from Maine Coast Romance: Ye Romance of Olde Pemaquid There is, my dear professor, in the inscription of this volume to you, a suggestion of carrying coals to Newcastle, yet I am impelled to it in open flagrancy of all the proprieties, perhaps, for I know of no one who is likely to be more patient under adversities of this sort, or so forgiving, once you are assured of the honesty of the trespasser's sentiment. It is not a far cry to...

Excerpt from Indian Wars of New England, Vol. 1 The origin, especially, of the New England Indian is a matter wholly of conjecture. His annihilation, however, is an historic fact. It is with the finals of his savage activities, in which the Levitical concept was observed to the letter, that the author is compelled, by the historic areas to be surveyed, to be content. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rar...

Excerpt from Old York I Have inscribed the Romance of Old York - the writing of which afforded the author a deal of pleasure - to you, my good friend, in recognition of the cherished acquaintance which began in the days when the author stood at the doorway of a strenuous life, and when you, as well, had entered upon what has proven a notably successful and honorable career. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands...

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