Children's book of patriotic stories: The spirit of '76

Here is a book of Patriotic Stories for children, to stand beside the similar collections of Christmas Stories and Thanksgiving Stories, which have already been welcomed by many parents, librarians, and teachers. Those seeking material appropriate to Washington’s Birthday and the Fourth of July will find here a goodly store, ready to their hands. The brief descriptive note at the head of each story will help the reader to choose one well suited to his audience. And the Table of Contents, as in the previous collections, indicates which tales will best please older, and which younger children.

The Editors hope that a book of stirring tales like these--not history, but stories such as children love, that yet ring true in spirit--will serve to help, though ever so little, the Cause of Liberty and will aid in keeping aglow in the hearts of our young people the ardent spark which inspired our forefathers--the Spirit of ’76.

Napoleon was great, I know, And Julius Cæsar, and all the rest, But they didn’t belong to us, and so I like George Washington the best.

--ANONYMOUS.