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The author of Marcia's copy of "Life of Columbus" is likely an error. Heather, a GLH reader, recently emailed us and suggested this:   A very famous The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (sometimes referred to as Life of Columbus) was published by Washington Irving in 1828. John Marshall was an American who fought in the Revolutionary War and eventually served in the Supreme Court, dying in 1835 (Irving died 1859). But the interesting point is that both Marshall and Irving published multivolume works on the life of George Washington, in 1805-07 (resissued as a condensed version in '32) and 1855-59 respectively. My theory is that in jotting down the list of books that Marcia studies, Hill either wrote Columbus when she meant...

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While acknowledging my obligations to many well-known writers on Dutch history, literature, and art, I turn with especial gratitude to those kind Holland friends, who, with generous zeal, have taken many a backward glance at their country for my sake, seeing it as it looked twenty years ago, when the Brinker home stood unnoticed in sunlight and shadow. Should this simple narrative serve to give my young readers a just idea of Holland and its resources, or present true pictures of its inhabitants and their every-day life, or free them from certain current prejudices concerning that noble and enterprising people, the leading desire in writing it will have been satisfied. Should it cause even one heart to feel a deeper trust in...