Boys of the Ages: Their Dreams and Their Crafts

Boys of the Ages: Their Dreams and Their Crafts by Laura Woolsey Lord Scales, 1922. There are nine stories in this book, each written from the point of view of a young boy who lives and works in a historical settler. Beginning with Meryt, the son of a canal builder in ancient Egypt, and continuing to Nathanial, an apprentice silver smith in the age of Paul Revere, the book also has stories about working boys from ancient Greek (sculpture), Ancient Rome (soldier), Molsem Arabia (scholar), Fanders(weaver), Rennaissance Italy (painter), England (sailor), and France in the age of Louis the XIV.