The Life of Benjamin Franklin

The following Preface to the Life of Columbus will explain the plan of the series, of which this is the third volume:-
"There is no kind of reading more attractive than biography, and, if properly treated, there is none more instructive. It appears, therefore, to be peculiarly fitted to the purposes of education; it readily excites the curiosity and awakens the interest of the pupil, and, while it stores his mind with facts, dates and events, displays to his view the workings of the human h...