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Bible Stories and Religious Classics
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Title: Bible Stories and Religious Classics
Author: Philip P. Wells
Release Date: December 4, 2003 [EBook #10380]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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BIBLE STORIES AND RELIGIOUS CLASSICS
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANSON PHELPS STOKES, JR.
ILLUSTRATED BY BEATRICE STEVENS
1903
INTRODUCTION
There never was a time when the demand for books for young people was so great as it is to-day or when so much was being done to meet the demand. "Children's Counter," "Boys' Books," are signs which, especially at the Christmas season, attract the eye in every large book shop. Tales of adventure, manuals about various branches of nature study, historical romances, lives of heroes--in fact, almost every kind of book--is to be found in abundance, beautifully illustrated, attractively bound, well printed, all designed and written especially for the youth of our land. It is indeed an encouraging sign. It means that the child of to-day is being introduced to the world's best in literature and science and history and art in simple and gradual ways.
In the Middle Ages stories of