Excerpt from The Boy's Froissart: Being Sir John Froissart's Chronicles, Adventure Battle and Custom in England, France, Spain, Etc, , Edited for Boys With an Introduction

Perhaps no boy will deny that to find the world still reading a book which was written five hundred years ago is a very wonderful business. For the world grows, - faster than a boy, and when you remember how it is only about ten years since you were reading Jack the Giant-killer, and how you are infinitely beyond all that now, - you know, - you readily see that it must be a very manful man indeed who can make a book so strong and so all-time like as to go on giving delight through the ages, spite of prodigious revolutions in customs, in governments, and in ideas.

Now, Froissart sets the boy's mind upon manhood and the man's mind upon boyhood. In reading him the young soul sifts out for itself the splendor, the hardihood, the daring, the valor, the generosity, the boundless conflict and unhindered action, which make up the boy's early ideal of the man, while a more mature reader goes at once to his simplicity, his gayety, his passion for deeds of arms, his freedom from consciousness and from all internal debate - in short, his boyishness. Thus Froissart helps youth forward and age backward.

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