A brief handbook of American authors

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About the Book Books that are Consumer Guides provide advice to potential customers about the relative merits of alternative brands of goods and services. Titles include: A Guide to the Choice of Books for Students & General Readers, and Clark's Boston Blue Book. Private Address and Carriage Directory and Ladies' Visiting and Shopping Guide for Boston. Also in this Book Books that are Almanac are annual publications that list out a calendar of events for the coming year, including religious festivals, planting dates, tide times etc. Annual Reports are books that present the activities of corporations, government bodies, or private associations for the previous year. Titles in this eclectic collection include: Chi Phi Year Book, 1902, Official Proceedings of the National Democratic Convention, Held at Baltimore, July 9, 1872, Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Year Book of the New York Southern Society, for the Year 1913-14, Year-Book of the Royal Society of London, 1901, The Almanacs of Roger Sherman, 1750-1761, Proceedings of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, and Public Schools of the City of Chicago: Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Education for the Year Ending June 23, 1899. And in this Book Books on the Study and Teaching of History analyze the profession that discovers, researches and compiles documentary and other evidence relating to past events in order to understand historical processes. Teachers of history use a range of techniques to impart the knowledge of historical research to students of the subject.