Flying Sails - My Book House #8 Author:Olice Beaupre Miller Volume Eight, Flying Sails, is meant for the period when the interest of boys and girls is turning form fairy tales to real stories of real adventure, full of bold and striking actions. To meet the need for true stories at this period, we have in Flying Sails actual history tales such as "Young Midshipman David Farragut,&q... more »uot; and " A Boy on the High Seas." Stores of this type form for boys and girls the introduction to history itself. Even in the fascinating story of the "Circus Man," Phineas T. Barnum, and his journey abroad with the famous dwarf, General Tom thumb, the child meets a number of historical characters. These include Queen Victoria and The Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo and was enormously pleased with Tom Thumb when the little fellow appeared in a miniature of Napoleon's well-known uniform, posing as lost in sorrowful thought over his defeat by Wellington. Thus the child's interest in history is being aroused and he is being prepare to study it.« less