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The Fleet of Columbus Nearing America

Historic Boyhoods

By RUPERT S. HOLLAND

Author of "The Count at Harvard," "Builders of United Italy," etc.

PHILADELPHIA
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1909, by
George W. Jacobs and Company
PublishedOctober, 1909

All rights reserved
Printed in U.S.A.

To
the dear memory
of
L.B.R.

The thanks of the author are due the Century Company for permission toreprint certain of these stories which appeared in Saint Nicholas inshorter form.

CONTENTS

• Christopher Columbus
  The Boy of Genoa
• Michael Angelo
  The Boy of the Medici Gardens
• Walter Raleigh
  The Boy of Devon
• Peter the Great
  The Boy of the Kremlin
• Frederick the Great
  The Boy of Potsdam
• George Washington
  The Boy of the Old Dominion
• Daniel Boone
  The Boy of the Frontier
• John Paul Jones
  The Boy of the Atlantic
• Mozart
  The Boy of Salzburg
• Lafayette
  The Boy of Versailles
• Horatio Nelson
  ...