For the first time in a quarter of a century the British soldiers, the men who had conquered the conquerors of Europe, had met defeat. Andrew Jackson and his rough riflemen had worsted in a fair fight a far larger force of the best of Wellington's veterans, and had accomplished what no French marshal and no French troops had been able to accomplish throughout the long war in the Spanish Peninsula. For a week the sullen British lay in their lines; then, abandoning their heavy artillery, they marched back to the ships and sailed again for Europe.
TO THE READERS OF "HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE."
HARPER'S ROUND TABLE? We imagine how puzzled and surprised a great throng of you are when your favorite HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE suddenly puts on a new dress and wears a new name. Yet it is the very same paper which has been your favorite ever since you first read it--the same, except that it has taken on some additional features of interest, and will be more pleasing to you than ever.
Of course you wish to know why a change has been made, and what the Editor means to give you in the ROUND TABLE which will make up for the disappearance of YOUNG PEOPLE. The ROUND TABLE will be so big and bright that it will accommodate more young people than you can count--all, in fact, who belong to the wonderful Order you all love. Listen to our programme for the future:
Serial stories by our best authors, short, timely, and entertaining articles, and the regular departments will be continued. You will find that not one of the attractions is omitted. The only alteration in the periodical, beyond the title and make-up, is to be found in the additional departments. Something new has been added which is sure to interest everybody.
Part of this addition is the athletic department, entitled Interscholastic Sport. This department is to be conducted by "The Graduate," who is an experienced writer and student of scholastic athletics, and who, while following the course of school athletics all over the United States, will give you many valuable suggestions on physical training. Another part of this addition, which will be sure to please you just now especially, is a department on Bicycling, which will contain charts and maps showing pleasant bicycle trips in or near the large cities of the United States. This department will be under the editorship of an expert wheeler, who will have the assistance of the officers of the League of American Wheelmen. Besides these features the type will be changed so that about two hundred words will be added to each page of the paper, thus increasing the amount of letter-press by nearly one-fourth. You will now receive nearly one-quarter again as much reading matter as heretofore for the same amount of money. You will approve of this, we know.