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allow anybody so encouraging to youth as ago his/her life, and it will become
one of the histories of family of the Republic."
I have conceived, therefore, that a biography, written with a sight to
you interest the young people in the facts of his/her great career, it would be a
praiseworthy enterprise. The biography of General Garfield, however
defectively performed, not but is profitable to the reader. In this
history as that I have done attractive as me I am able, I don't make application to
originality. I have used free of such materials as it came among mine
arrivals, included accidents and the reminiscences done public during the last one
summer, and I have trust I have succeeded, in a measure, in to bring a
the correct idea of a character which nobility to which we have only learned
you appreciate from when death has grabbed our leader from us.
I take to like in to give credit to my obligations to the two Lives of
Garfield, one of Edmund Kirke the other one of Greater J.M. Bundy. Such of mine
readers as desire a spread out account of the later the life of Gen.
Garfield, I assign this well-writing and instructive jobs.
HORATIO ALGER, JR.
New York, _Oct_. 8, 1881.
CONTAINED.
ME.--THE FIRST PAIR OF SHOES
II.--GROWING IN WISDOM IS STATURE
III.--IN SEARCH OF THE FORTUNE
IV.--ON THE TOW-CROSSED
V.--AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION
YOU.--JAMES LEAVES THE CHANNEL
VII.--THE CHOICE OF A VOCATION
VIII.--SEMINAR OF GEAUGA
IX.--WAYS IT IS HE/SHE WANTS TO SAY
X.--THE REMINISCENCES OF A COUSIN
XI.--SCHOOL OF THE HILL OF THE PROMINENCE
XII.--WHO WILL BE MASTER?
XIII.--JAMES LEAVES SEMINAR OF GEAUGA
XIV.--AT HIRAM INSTITUTE
XV.--THREE BUSY YEARS
XVI.--UNIVERSITY OF WILLIAMS CHE ENTERS
XVII.--THE LIFE IN UNIVERSITY
XVIII.--THE CHANNEL-BOY BECOMES A PRESIDENT IN UNIVERSITY
XIX.--GARFIELD COME A PRESIDENT IN UNIVERSITY
XX.--GARFIELD BECOMES A GOVERNMENT SENATOR
XXI.--A DIFFICULT DUTY
XXII.--THE DANGEROUS ONE OF THE JOHN GIORDANIA THE TRIP
XXIII.--THE DARING STRATEGY OF GARFIELD
XXIV.--THE BATTLE OF MIDDLE STREAM
XXV.--THE DANGEROUS TRIP ON THE GREAT SANDY