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BRILLIANT EXAMPLES FOR AMERICAN YOUTH.

"Authentic, Instructive and Entertaining."

LIVES OF

MODERN AMERICAN HEROES.

FOR BOYS AND YOUNG MEN.

BY THE POPULAR BIOGRAPHER,

REV. P. C. HEADLEY.

I.

THE HERO BOY.

Being the Life and Deeds of Lieut.-General Ulysses S. Grant,

THE PATRIOT AND HERO.

Tracing his career from Boyhood to Manhood, from the Schoolhouse to the Battle Field and Victory. 1 vol., 16mo, fancy cloth, 340 pages and nine illustrations. Price $1.50.

Extract from a letter received from General Grant's Father. REV. P. C. HEADLEY:

DEAR SIR-I have read over carefully the Hero Boy, written by yourself. It it correct and well written, with direct reference to doing justice to all parties. Yours, most truly,

NOTICES OF THE PRESS.

J. R. GRANT.

Of all children's books we doubt if any class exercise so direct an influence as the lives of eminent men; to emulate their example is often the first ambition of the young in the career which native genius indicates. Hence, it is of no small importance what exemplars are put into the hands of children. One of the most attractive and authentic of these contemporary biographies for the young, is the "Hero Boy," or the "Life of Gen. Grant," by Rev. P. C. Headley. It is a handsome duodecimo, written with spirit, well illustrated, and handsomely bound. It will prove a taking book for boys.-N. Y. Evening Post.

This volume is the first of a series for boys, entitled "The Young American's Library of Modern Heroes." It is full of entertaining incidents of Gen. Grant's