SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND FOR YOUNG PEOPLE MISS E. S. KIRKLAND AUTHOR OF A SHORT HISTORY OP FRAKCE, SIX LITTLE COOKS, DORAS HOUSEKEEPING, SPEECH AND MANNERS, ETC. You already know something of American history. For two hundred years it was closeIy connected with that of England, and it is but little more than a century since we began to have a history exclusively our own. England is our mother-country her past belongs to us as much as it does to the English, and ought to be equally interesting to us and thenm. After reading what was done and thought by our ancestors, you will understand all the better how the separation came about whch made us an independent Nation