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THE WORLDshowing theUNITED STATESand itsOutlying Possessions
Copyright, 1909, by Rand, McNally & Company.
THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS
A
Beginner's History
by
WILLIAM H. MACE
Formerly Professor of History in Syracuse University, Author of
"Method in History," "A Working Manual of American
History," "A School History of the United
States," "Lincoln: The Man of the
People," and "Washington:
A Virginia Cavalier"
Illustrated by
HOMER W. COLBY
Portraits by
JACQUES REICH, P. R. AUDIBERT,and B. F. WILLIAMSON
RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
Chicago New York London
Mace's Primary History
Copyright, 1909,
By William H. Mace
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Mace's Elementary History
Copyright, 1914,
By William H. Mace
Mace's Beginner's History
Copyright, 1914,
By William H. Mace
Copyright, 1916,
By William H. Mace
Copyright, 1921,
By William H. Mace
The Rand-McNally Press
Chicago
THE PREFACE
The material out of which the child pictures history liesall about him. When he learns to handle objects or observesmen and other beings act, he is gathering material to formimages for the stories you tell him, or those he reads. Sosupple and vigorous is the child's imagination that he can putthis store of material to use in picturing a fairy story, a legend,or a myth.
From this same source—his observation of the peopleand things about him—he gathers simple meanings and ideasof his own. He weaves these meanings and ideas, in part,into the stories he reads or is told. From the cradle to thegrave he should exercise this habit of testing the men andinstitutions he studies by a comparison with those he has seen.<