This book is the sequel to the much beloved 'little house by Boston Bay. The end of the great war of 1812 is much celebrated, although Charlotte must feel the loss of her father's apprentice Will, who has yet to return to the comforts of their dear home in Roxbury. Her older brother Lew loses his little finger to infection, and the Tucker family sadly learns that Will must lose his leg to the same disease. Through infections and hurricanes and mortal disasters alike, they posess an inner courage and faith which unites them to look for a better tomorrow, and inspires us to do the same. With a delectable spice of humor thrown in, this book is a must-read.

This was a very good book. Charlotte Tucker (Quiner) is a little girl living in the outskirts of Boston. She has many household chores to do while her older siblings go to school. She is living during the War of 1812, and it takes place a little bit after her father's striker, Will leaves to fight in the army. They miss him a lot, but the winter days are filled with many chores, so they don't have a lot of time to reflect or think. Another worry also comes to mind when Lewis (Charlotte's brother) gets an infection from a splinter. This is a pioneer family you will never forget!

"Little House by Boston Bay" and the beloved "On Tide Mill Lane" are classics of the Charlotte Years. But they are also the only books of the Charlotte books. Ms. Melissa Wiley, write more Charlottes, and not to mention the Martha Years! Notify all your Little House fans the second you can!

Truly a remarkable work and an excellent source for students and arm-chair archaeologists alike. Short on the hoped-for graphics and illustrations but long on information, the Oxford Companion proves its worth when one is looking for an appropriate overview of various archaeological topics. Just enough cross-referencing to excite one's imagination and more than enough to whet one's appetite to dig even deeper into archaeology and all that is has to teach us.

"The Oxford Companion to Archaeology" is a fitting friend to the recently published "Eyewitness to Discovery," an anthology of first-person archaeological writings, also edited by Brian Fagan.

Given the space and range of the subject matter, it seems that any kind of judgmental review would be superfluous. No topic is missed, and everything is written with a depth and clarity that one expects from a book in the Oxford Companion series. There are only two regrets. I would have liked to see illustrations, photos and maps of certain sites, but that is more wishful thinking than constructive criticism.

The other problem is that the 29 maps in the back of the book are inadequate. Some sites are listed, some are not. They lack a note indicating what time period they apply to What date does "Early China" map refer to? Or the "Late China?" The sole map of the Roman Empire shows it at its largest, but omits the date of when that was. One might as well review a dictionary.

These are just a few of the idle facts and notions gleaned from these pages:

* A long-term study of what people throw away has been going on out in Tucson, Arizona, since 1973. It has found that the average U.S. household throws away 10 to 15 percent of its edible solid food, that curbside recycling has conserved about 20 percent of landfill space since it began in 1982, and that paper takes up 40 to 50 percent of landfill space.

* Although the wheel was in use in Mesopotamia from about 4,000 B.C., it was not in the Americas, nor in Africa south of the Sahara.

* Diseases brought by European explorers may have reduced North American population, estimated at 18 million, (roughly the current population of South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina combined) by up to 80 percent.

* Silk was such a lucrative export from China that from the second century on, persons caught attempting to export the technology of silk production could be executed.

*That the Great Wall of China is not a continuous wall, but a series of walls, built and rebuilt at different times. The section outside Beijing was reconstructed recently as a tourist attraction. (This account also perpetuates the popular error that the wall is the only human product visible from the moon. Astronaut Alan Bean has written that "the only thing you can see from the moon is a beautiful sphere, mostly white (clouds), some blue (ocean), patches of yellow (deserts), and every once in a while some green vegetation.")

* Last but not least, after reading accounts of civilizations that have lasted thousands of years, only to collapse into a heap of dusty ruins and sometimes indecipherable records, it's hard to feel smug about a country with a mere 200 years of history.

The multi-disciplinary study of archaeology requires a broad database of knowlegde, and the Oxford Companion offers itself as an excellent resource. Alphabetical entries are provided in subject areas, and especially helpful is a variety of timelines and graphical data, as well as a comprehensive index. Fagan's compilation of entries from renowed social sciences in the Oxford Companion is an essential in my personal library, and is referred to consistently.

great pictures and interesting information. I enjoyed this book. It packs a lot of interesting information in a small, easy to read, book.

This book with 62 pages explains everything you need to know about Pearls. In addition to the knowledge of pearl for a consumer, this book also goes into great details in the trade of pearls. It covers the geographic sources of pearls, the competitive producers, and logical prediction of future market.
I enjoyed it a great deal.

I don't know what impressed me more, the spectacular photography or the effortless and fascinating way Fred Ward helped me understand pearls. He takes the mystery out of buying pearls. I will not buy pearls again without reviewing this book.

This book was good but it was too short. I would like
to a book in each series (Martha, Charlotte, etc.) writen
about each family from the mother's point of view.

This gives the reader an idea of how nice Roxbury, MA once
was. It sure isn't nice like that now!

This book was very good to read if you have read Little House by Boston Bay and On Tide Mill Lane. I would reccomend reading those books first. If you enjoy them I reccoment the Martha and Caroline and Laura and Rose Years as well.

If you loved Laura Ingalls Wilders' account of her life on the prairie, then you need to read all of these books, too. Written by various different authors, the books tell the stories of Laura's mother(Caroline), grandmother (Charlotte), and great-grandmother (Martha, who grew up in Scotland). This particular novel is a continuation of the story of Charlotte. Like the original Little House books, these books give a picture of the lives of girls growing up in earlier times than our own, and you get very caught up in all of it. There is also a series which tells of Laura's daughter Rose and her life. Read them all and get your kids (girls will especially like them) to read them, too!

How many mothers have their own mothers nearby to encourage and assist during the child-rearing years? Not many, and getting fewer all the time.

This gift booklet provides a little of that inter-generational wisdom we all need through its touching anecdotes and warm honesty. Adelsperger and Hayse have done a great job of providing two different points of view while maintaining a consistent voice. The timeline of the book covers four generations, but the reader comes away with a sense of how the real issues--love, family, faith--stay the same through every era. There's no preaching here to scare off the unchurched. Rather, there's a window into how a Christian family views (and "does") motherhood through the generations.

Women of all ages will find something to connect with and learn from in this delightful book. It would be the perfect table favor at a mother-daughter tea.

Charlotte and Karen have woven together a precious look at mother love through the generations and seasons of life. In sharing their own history, these insightful ladies provide encouragement to any woman fortunate enough to be called Mommy.

Warm, pocket and purse size book of family values through four generations. The reader sees that mothers do make a difference in time spent with children. Any time is quality time and setting a good example is part of being a mother. Whether it is showing compassion for others or putting affectionate notes in a child's lunch bag, love is endless and ever-expanding. Though the world may change, prayer is a constant. "Through the Generations" is readable and reinforced with Scripture quotes and anecdotes. Inspirational and family-oriented.

I found this book while traveling abroad this summer - since coming back to the States it has been impossible to find anything by Charlotte Bingham. Please take the time to read this story - you will find it enchanting! Also wonderful is Debutantes by Charlotte Bingham.

I found this book at a local flea market we had over the summer. To say the least it's now becomming one of the best books i've read. I'm 3/4 of the way through the book and can hardly put it down:) Charlotte Bingham does a great job with Cassie, Joel, Jo, and Mattie.

Horse racing with a heroine and a love story all rolled into one:) A Champion Horse who's kidnapped and then gelded. The main character Cassie - A woman in a mans world (horse racing) who's threatened when she keeps her home bred horse in training and then has it kidnapped only to find it gelded and her hopes crushed. Joel - an artist who falls in love with Cassie and helps her uncover the mystery surrounding The Nightengale's kidnapping. He ends up helping his father put an end to his life and ends up in prison for it.

I'm not gonna tell ya anymore:) you've gotta read the book!:) trust me you won't want to set it down:)

This is one of my most favorite books. I have read it over and over again and never tire of it. The book takes you through the life of a young girl, from childhood until she is an old woman. She faces many obstacles in her life, and several tragedies, and she perseveres and overcomes them. The book is set in New York and later, in Ireland. I don't want to write much more about the story itself - I just have to say that women should read this. I just love it. I had my mom read it, and she also loved it.

I thought this book would be like a invite to fairy land. but i was very disapointed. dont botherbuying this book.

I came upon this book by accident. I'd been searching for antique childrens' book illustrations when - lo and behold! - this flew into my lap.

The paintings are exquisite and quite astonishing, considering they were rendered in an emotionally stifled period. There is plenty of whimsy here, but more of the fantastic. Some of the artists were said to have gone on opium binges in order to render the capricious fairy world on canvas. Regardless of how they did it, they set the stage for a new set of ideals: secret places, strange creatures, wings, fangs, claws....

For a glimpse of the featured works in this collection, check out www.artmagick.com. Then, read works like 'Midsummer Night's Dream' to get the full effect!

This is a serious art book about the Victorian passion for fairy art. It includes information about fairy plays, musicals and most importantly the prominent painters of the day. I found the paintings very beautiful and the writing by Jeremy Maas first-rate. You won't find any pictures from the popular C.M. Barker here but you will find many from lesser known artists like John Anster Fitzgerald, Joseph Noel Paton and Richard Doyle.

Six lectures delivered by Carlyle in 1840. He classifies six kinds of heroes: as Divinity (Wotan, paganism); Prophet (Mohamed); Poet (Dante, Shakespeare); Priest (Luther, Knox); Man of Letters (Johnson, Rousseau, Burns); and Ruler (Cromwell, Napoleon). The trait that defines a hero is: absolute sincerity and firm belief in his principles.

In his highly rhetorical lectures, Carlyle highlights and reinforces the role of the individual in the social process, as opposed to the role of the masses. And he did that precisely when the foundations were being laid for the most influential "pro-mass" movement in History: Marxism. The tragedy of Marxism, at least one of them all, is that, when translated into action, the blind masses were also led by "heroes" of the most authocratic sort. Not properly the work of an historian, these lectures are vivid, inflamed and enthusiast. Their uselfuness for our present age is precisely that they remind us of the crucial role significant individuals play in history, to accelerate or slow down (and even reverse) the process of social change, which is usually more gradual, diffused, and diverse.

Carlyle is not properly a historian or a philosopher, but a moralist, a fervent admirer of excellence, and a prose-poet of the first rank. Six meditations deal respectively of the hero as: Divinity, Prophet, Poet, Priest, Man of Letters, and King. If this book can't rightly be shelved with philosophy or history, it belongs in Literature with a capital "L," and Poetry. Carlylye loved the English Language and used it masterfully, energetically, and reverentially, without a trace of the trivial overindulgence of self-conscious and self-absorbed "poets."

This is an extraordinary work, let modern liberal critics say what they will of their 'mass movements' and 'diversity'. Long after they and their productions have bitten the dust, Carlyle will continue to speak to the enlightened few, and perhaps one day, it is to be hoped, to the enlightened many.

This work is much more than just a study of various influential men in history. Carlyle has very interesting notions of the historical process itself, the spread of religions and their demise, the importance of "true belief" in things, as opposed the unbelief that merely follows rituals and procedures. For Carlyle, true belief, is the beginning of morality, all success, all good things in this world; Unbelief, scepticism, the beginning of all corruption, quackery, falsehood.Unbelief, for instance, is at the root of all materialist philosophies, eg Utilitarianism which find human beings to be nothing more than clever, pleasure-seeking bipeds. It is also at the root of all democratic theories: faith in a democratic system means despair of finding an honest man to lead us.

Whether one agrees with Carlyle or not in his appraisal of democratic and other systems, one must admit, at least, that very little good is to be gotten from "the checking and balancing of greedy knaveries." If we have no honest men in government or in business, but only a bunch of self-interested quacks, then we cannot expect any system, however ingenious, to save us. Even the most skilled architect will not be able to construct a great building, if you give him only hollow, cracked bricks to build it with. Find your honest men, says Carlyle, and get them into the positions of influence; only then will it be well with you.