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for rescuing from drowning a certain Benton Barry. Now Benton Barry was one of the wretched housebreakers. This is the summary of the opening chapter. The story is intensely interesting in its serious as well as its humorous parts.

His Own Master.

"This is a book after the typical boy's own heart. Its hero is a plucky young fellow, who, seeing no chance for himself at home, determines to make his own way in the world. . . . He sets out accordingly, trudges to the far West, and finds the road to fortune an unpleasantly rough one."—Philadelphia Inquirer.

Bound in Honor.

This story is of a lad, who, though not guilty of any bad action, has been an eye-witness of the conduct of his comrades, and felt "Bound in Honor" not to tell.

"A capital book in all respects, overflowing with all sorts of fun and adventure; just the sort of book, in short, that the young folks will be anxious to read and re-read with as much continuous interest as the most favored of their storybooks."—Philadelphia Leader.

The Pocket Rifle.

"A boy's story which will be read with avidity, as it ought to be, it is so brightly and frankly written, and with such evident knowledge of the temperaments and habits, the friendships and enmities of schoolboys."—New York Mail.

"This is a capital story for boys. It teaches honesty, integrity, and friendship, and how best they can be promoted. It shows the danger of hasty judgment and circumstantial evidence; that right-doing pays, and dishonesty never."—Chicago Inter-Ocean.

The Jolly Rover.

"This book will help to neutralize the ill effects of any poison which children may have swallowed in the way of sham-adventurous stories and wildly fictitious tales. 'The Jolly Rover' runs away from home, and meets life as it is, till he is glad enough to seek again his father's house. Mr. Trowbridge has the power of making an instructive story absorbing in its interest, and of covering a moral so that it is easy to take."—Christian Intelligencer.

Young Joe, and other Boys.

"Young Joe," who lived at Bass Cove, where he shot wild ducks, took some to town for sale, and attracted the attention of a portly gentleman fond of shooting. This gentleman went duck shooting with Joe, and their adventures were more amusing to the boy than to the amateur sportsman.

There are thirteen other short stories in the book which will be sure to please the young folks.

Illustrated Catalogue sent free on application. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Boston

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PHILLIPS EXETER SERIES By A. T. DUDLEY

Cloth, 12mo Illustrated by Charles Copeland Price per volume, $1.25
FOLLOWING THE BALL

HERE is an up-to-date story presenting American boarding-school life and modern athletics. Football is an important feature, but it is a story of character formation in which athletics play an important part.

"Mingled with the story of football is another and higher endeavor, giving the book the best of moral tone."—Chicago Record-Herald.

MAKING THE NINE

THE life presented is that of a real school, interesting, diversified, and full of striking incidents. The athletics are technically correct, while the characters are true and consistent types of American boyhood and youth.

"The story is healthful, for, while it exalts athletics, it does not overlook the fact that studious habits and noble character are imperative needs for those who would win success in life."—Herald and Presbyter, Cincinnati.

IN THE LINE

TELLS how a stalwart young student won his position as guard, and made equally marked progress in the formation of character.

"The book gives boys an interesting story, much football information, and many lessons in true manliness."—Watchman, Boston.

WITH MASK AND MITT

WHILE appealing to the natural normal tastes of boys for fun and interest in the baseball, the book, without preaching, lays emphasis on the building up of character.

"No normal boy who is interested in our great national game can fail to find interest and profit, too, in this lively boarding-school story."—Interior, Chicago.

THE GREAT YEAR

THREE manly comrades, captains respectively of the baseball, football, and track teams, help each other to achieve a "great year" of triple victory over their traditional rival.

"It is a fine, inspiring story for manly boys."—N. Y. Christian Advocate.

For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price
by the Publishers,

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON

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THE BOY CRAFTSMAN Practical and Profitable Ideas for a Boy's
Leisure Hours By A. NEELY HALL

Illustrated with over 400 diagrams and working drawings 8vo Price, $2.00

EVERY real boy wishes to design and make things, but the questions of materials and tools are often hard to pet around. Nearly all books on the subject call for a greater outlay of money than is within the means of many boys, or their parents wish to expend in such ways. In this book a number of chapters give suggestions for carrying on a small business that will bring a boy in money with which to buy tools and materials necessary for making apparatus and articles described in other chapters, while the ideas are so practical that many an industrious boy can learn what he is best fitted for in his life work. No work of its class is so completely up-to-date or so worthy in point of thoroughness and avoidance of danger. The drawings are profuse and excellent, and every feature of the book is first-class. It tells how to make a boy's workshop, how to handle tools, and what can be made with them; how to start a printing shop and conduct an amateur newspaper, how to make photographs, build a log cabin, a canvas canoe, a gymnasium, a miniature theatre, and many other things dear to the soul of youth.

We cannot imagine a more delightful present for a boy than this book.—Churchman, N. Y.

Every boy should have this book. It's a practical book—it gets right next to the boy's heart and stays there. He will have it near him all the time, and on every page there is a lesson or something that will stand the boy in good need. Beyond a doubt in its line this is one of the cleverest books on the market.—Providence News.

If a boy has any sort of a mechanical turn of mind, his parents should see that he has this book.—Boston Journal.

This is a book that will do boys good.—Buffalo Express.

The boy who will not find this book a mine of joy and profit must be queerly constituted.—Pittsburgh Gazette.

Will be a delight to the boy mechanic.—Watchman, Boston.

An admirable book to give a boy.—Newark News.

This book is the best yet offered for its large number of practical and profitable ideas.—Milwaukee Free Press.

Parents ought to know of this book.—New York Globe.

For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price
by the publishers,

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON

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Making of Our Nation Series By WILLIAM C. SPRAGUE

Large 12mo, Cloth Illustrated by A. B. Shute
Price per volume, $1.50
The Boy Courier of Napoleon

A Story of the Louisiana Purchase

WILLIAM C. SPRAGUE, the notably successful editor of "The American Boy," has given for the first time the history of the Louisiana Purchase in entertaining story form. The hero is introduced as a French drummer boy in the great battle of Hohenlinden. He serves as a valet to Napoleon and later is sent with secret messages to the French in San Domingo and in Louisiana. After exciting adventures he accomplishes his mission and is present at the lowering of the Spanish flag, and later at that of the French and the raising of the Stars and Stripes.

"All boys and girls of our country who read this book will be delighted with it, as well as benefited by the historical knowledge contained in its pages."—Louisville, Ky., Times.

"An excellent book for boys, containing just enough history to make them hunger for more. No praise of this book can be too high."—Town Topics, Cleveland, O.

"This book is one to fascinate every intelligent American boy."—Buffalo Times.

The Boy Pathfinder

A Story of the Oregon Trail

THIS book has as its hero an actual character, George Shannon, a Pennsylvania lad, who at seventeen left school to become one of the Lewis and Clark expedition. He had narrow escapes, but persevered, and the story of his wanderings, interwoven with excellent historical information, makes the highest type of general reading for the young.

"It is a thoroughly good story, full of action and adventure and at the same time carrying a bit of real history accurately recorded."—Universalist Leader, Boston.

"It is an excellent book for a boy to read."—Newark, N. J., Advertiser.

For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price
by the publishers,

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON

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Raymond Benson Series By CLARENCE B. BURLEIGH

Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman Large 12mo, Cloth
$1.50 per volume
The Camp on Letter K

THE story deals with two active boys in Aroostook County close to the northeastern boundary of our country, and where smuggling across the Canadian line has been prevalent. Equally ready in athletics, hunting, or helping their families on the rich farms of that section, these good chums have many exciting adventures, the most important of which directly concerns the leading smugglers of the district, and an important public service is rendered by the boys.

"There is an atmosphere about the whole book that is attractive to boys, and it will be read by them with enthusiastic delight."—Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N. Y.

Raymond Benson at Krampton

RAYMOND BENSON and his friend, Ned Grover, go to Krampton Academy, which is no other than the noted school at New Hampton, N. H., where Mr. Burleigh was fitted for college. We have had good books telling of the larger and more aristocratic preparatory schools, but never before one that so well told of life at a typical country academy of the sort that have furnished the inspiration for so many successful men.

"It is interesting from start to finish, and while rousing and full of enthusiasm, is wholesome in spirit, and teaches lessons of purity and justice and manliness in real life."—Herald & Presbyter.

The Kenton Pines

"KENTON COLLEGE" is Bowdoin College, beautiful in its location and famous in its history. Raymond's athletic abilities insure him immediate and enduring prominence as a student, and the accounts of athletic contests will stir the blood of any one. But the book is far more than a tale of these things; it is a wonderful picture of life at a smaller college, with all its fine hard work, "grinds," and triumphs. It is a book that rings true on every manly question.

"This book, like the other of the series, is of a very high character, and should be an inspiration to all boys contemplating a college career."—Interior.

For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price
by the publishers,

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON

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BOOKS BY EVERETT T. TOMLINSON. THE WAR OF 1812 SERIES

Six volumes Cloth Illustrated by A. E.
Shute Price per volume reduced to $1.25

No American writer for boys has ever occupied a higher position than Dr. Tomlinson, and the "War of 1812 Series" covers a field attempted by no other juvenile literature in a manner that has secured continued popularity.

The Search for Andrew Field
The Boy Soldiers of 1812
The Boy Officers of 1812
Tecumseh's Young Braves
Guarding the Border
The Boys with Old Hickory ST. LAWRENCE SERIES

CRUISING IN THE ST. LAWRENCE Being the third volume of the "St. Lawrence Series" Cloth
Illustrated Price $1.50

Our old friends, "Bob," "Ben," "Jock," and "Bert," having completed their sophomore year at college, plan to spend the summer vacation cruising on the noble St. Lawrence. Here they not only visit places of historic interest, but also the Indian

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