HEROES OF THE

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

AND

LYRE AND SWORD OF SPAIN:

TWO EPIC POEMS



BY

THEODORE F. PRICE

220 PAGES + ADS W/O DJ NEW YORK 1899

The author covers some of the heroes of the Spanish American War through his use of several long epic poems. The contents are divided into some of the following: prelude; part I – where rode the Maine, demons’ mine; part II – McKinley, leaders of men, naval chiefs; part III – Dewey, Asian Squadron, cruisers’ captains; part IV – War’s leviathans, eve of battle, Boca Grande, Manila; Part V – Hostile waters, Manila Bay, Cavite; part VI – surrender, after battle; romance of Arab conquest; love and war in Moorish Grenada; Spain’s hero poets and decline of Spain’s golden age. The volume contains twenty B & W pictures of men from that era; some are: Capt. Sigsbee, Lieut.-Commander Wainwright, Judge Day, T. Roosevelt, Dewey, Capt. Coghlan, Lieut. Brumby, Maj.-Gen’l Fitzhugh Lee, etc. Book has a brown cover with black lettering; text pages are outlined in red. It is 5 ¼ x 7 7/16”. The only other reference I have seen for this book is on an andall listing.



Condition: Good TO Good Minus. Corners and spine ends show some wear and bumping; slight twist in binding; covers have faded areas, some soiling or spots; a little foxing – mainly to blank fly pages and some page edges