Capitolo 1
FROM
CHANNEL BOY Á. PRESIDENTE,
OR IL
THE CHILDHOOD IS THE VIRILITY
OF
JAMES A. GARFIELD.
FROM
HORATIO ALGER, JR.,
To
HARRY E JAMES GARFIELD
OF WHO PRIVATE PAIN
IT IS THE PUBLIC PAIN,
THIS NOTE OF THEIR ILLUSTRIOUS FATHER
You/he/she is written
WITH THE WARMEST UNDERSTANDING.
GENERAL PREFACE.
The present series of volumes has been undertaken with the sight of
providing the lack of a class of books for children, of a vigorous,
virile tone, combined with a simple and concise way of narration. The
writings of Charles Dickens are been selected as the base of the
scheme, on account of the notorious excellence of his/her portrait of
children, and the affairs connected with children--the qualities that
you/he/she has given their stronger taking to his/her volumes on the hearts of parents.
These delineations that have received so readers' approval of
mature age, seemed an effort worthy of to also do the young one
participants in the enjoyment of these classical fictions, to introduce
the children of the true life to these beautiful children of the
imagination.
With this sight, the career of Small Nell and his/her Grandfather, Oliver,
Small Paul, Florence Dombey, Smike, and his Child-wife have been
freed by the great mass of matter with which they was originally
connected, and he/she introduced, in his/her own language of the author, to a new class
of readers, the small volumes want to whom we don't doubt, both as
attractive as the greatest originals has so long it showed him to the general
public. We have brought down these famous histories from the library to
his/her children's room--the table of living room to the hands of his/her/their child--having a precedent
for the procedure, if than one is had need, in the rather similar job, the
Histories from Shakespeare, within one of the more than first quality of authors English and
more reverential than researchers, Charles Lamb.
Newtonville, Mass.
PREFACE.
If to me he/she wonders because I add one to the our numerous Life of dead President,
I respond, in the words of Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, because the "our annalses