  A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. SCARCELY had Uncle Isaac been committed to the earth, when the nephew he had so longed to see arrived in the Casco, sick with the fever and ague. As the owners wished to send the vessel with despatch to one of the French West India islands, they, at Isaac’s request, put Ezra Aldrich in her as master. He was a native of the place, and relative of Isaac, but never much liked by his schoolmates, being an overbearing fellow. In his youth he went two voyages with Captain Rhines, and afterwards in English ships from Liverpool to Halifax. “I don’t see,” said Captain Rhines, “what Isaac wants to put him in her for.” The first mate was an acquaintance and shipmate of Aldrich, by the name of Percival, and, as Captain Rhines told his wife, as great a rascal as Aldrich seemed very much inclined to quarrel with Peterson, but having a wholesome dread of the strength of the black, restrained himself. By continual abuse, he at length irritated the good-natured negro to such a degree, that he said to him, “Lookee ‘ere, Massa Aldrich; ‘member when you little picaninny, runnin’ ‘bout barefoot; shirt flap he stick out behind; your farder haul staves on a hand-sled, your mudder dig clams; spose you gib me any more your jabber-juice, fling you ober de rail.” A week passed, when the captain, offended with Danforth Eaton, caught up the end of a rope to flog him. Eaton took up another. “What use do you intend to make of that rope, Eaton?” asked the captain. “Just the same use that you make of yours.” The captain was a school-mate of Eaton, and knew very well the result of a collision with him. But as they approached the land, the deportment of the captain entirely changed. While the vessel was being discharged, he bought soft bread, fresh meat, vegetables, and even fruit, for the men. Seamen are little disposed to remember injuries, and all old scores were now rubbed out. The cook having gone to the hospital sick, Peterson had taken his place. One evening, just as the men were about to turn in, the captain sent Peterson ashore with some letters. In the morning, when the crew turned out, he was among the missing. There was a good fire in the fireplace,—stoves were not in use then,—the tea-kettle on, coffee pounded in the mortar, some raw potatoes and onions peeled and sliced, slices of raw pork in the frying-pan, salt beef chopped in a kid,—everything prepared to make lob-scouse. “Was he not a drinking man?” inquired the captain. “He was once,” said Hurd, “but left it off years ago.” “Halloo! What’s this?” said George Hoyt. A handkerchief lay on the fender. They brought it aboard on the point of a boat-hook. “It’s Peterson’s,” said Elwell; “there’s his name on it.” “It’s just as I thought,” said the captain. “He drank last night; that waked up the old appetite, and as soon as he turned out this morning he went for more, and fell off the gangway plank.” A grappling was procured ashore, and the crew, under the direction of the captain, who was deeply moved, grappled for the body the greater part of the day, without success. In the meanwhile, the mate was making inquiries on shore. “The tide runs strong here,” said the captain; “it has swept him to sea.” “Poor Jim has gone, boys,” said Eaton, as, weary and dispirited, they sat down to supper. “Anybody wouldn’t have thought,” said Savage, “he’d a broke through, after being a steady man so long. The captain feels bad, but he’s done all a man could do.” “Jim Peterson,” said Eaton, brushing away a tear with the back of his hand, “was a black fellow, raal coal black, too,—a Guinea nigger, if you “That’s so, Dan. I’m sure I never thought anything about his color.” “But I don’t believe anything about his getting drunk (though I’ve no doubt the captain thinks so); for I’ve seen him tried and tempted hard to weather, by old shipmates, time and time again. He went ashore to get something to put in the stew; a sober man might make a misdeal in a hurry. No power on earth will ever make me believe Jim was drunk.” “Then why didn’t he sing out?” “He might strike his head on something, and stun him. There’s a good many will feel bad when we carry the news home, besides his own folks.” “That’s so,” said Savage; “there’s nothing in the world that the Rhineses wouldn’t do for Peterson, and always would; and it was just so with the Griffins. I’ve heard that Peterson saved the captain’s life once. I remember one time a parcel of us boys got some withes, tied them together, and got a turn round Peterson’s waist when he When the vessel arrived home, Captain Murch took charge, and Aldrich went back to Liverpool. Percival, the mate, got to drinking, and became a miserable fellow; went to Boston, and sailed before the mast, sometimes second mate, and after his brief elevation, again before the mast; till, becoming so notorious a drunkard that no captain would have him, he was employed as a lumper about the wharves in Boston. The next volume of this series, “The Young Deliverers,” will explain the mystery attending the disappearance of Peterson, and present the characters of Walter and Ned in an entirely new light. AMERICAN BOYS’ SERIES Ninety-five copyright books for boys by noted American Authors The books selected for this series are all thoroughly American, by such favorite American authors of boys’ books as Oliver Optic, Elijah Kellogg, P. C. Headley, Captain Farrar, George M. Towle, and others, now made for the first time at a largely reduced price, in order to bring them within the reach of all. Each volume complete in itself. Uniform Cloth Binding New Cover Design Illustrated Price per volume $1.00 1. Adrift in the Ice Fields By Capt. Chas. W. Hall 2. All Aboard, or Life on the Lake By Oliver Optic 3. Ark of Elm Island By Elijah Kellogg 4. Arthur Brown the Young Captain By Elijah Kellogg 5. Boat Club, The, or the Bunkers of Rippleton By Oliver Optic 6. Boy Farmers of Elm Island, The By Elijah Kellogg 7. Boys of Grand PrÉ School By Prof. James DeMille 8. “B. O. W. C.,” The By Prof. James DeMille 9. Brought to the Front, or the Young Defenders By Elijah Kellogg 10. Burying the Hatchet, or the Young Brave of the Delawares By Elijah Kellogg 11. Cast Away in the Cold By Dr. Isaac I. Hayes 12. Charlie Bell the Waif of Elm Island By Elijah Kellogg 13. Child of the Island Glen By Elijah Kellogg 14. Crossing the Quicksands By Samuel W. Cozzens 15. Cruise of the Casco By Elijah Kellogg 16. Fire in the Woods By Prof. James DeMille 17. Fisher Boys of Pleasant Cove By Elijah Kellogg 18. Forest Glen, or the Mohawk’s Friendship By Elijah Kellogg 19. Good Old Times By Elijah Kellogg 20. Hard-scrabble of Elm Island By Elijah Kellogg 21. Haste or Waste, or the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain By Oliver Optic 22. Hope and Have By Oliver Optic 23. In School and Out, or the Conquest of Richard Grant By Oliver Optic 24. John Godsoe’s Legacy By Elijah Kellogg 25. Just His Luck By Oliver Optic 26. Lion Ben of Elm Island By Elijah Kellogg 27. Little by Little, or the Cruise of the Flyaway By Oliver Optic 28. Live Oak Boys, or the Adventures of Richard Constable Afloat and Ashore By Elijah Kellogg 29. Lost in the Fog By Prof. James DeMille 30. Mission of Black Rifle, or On the Trail By Elijah Kellogg 31. Now or Never, or the Adventures of Bobby Bright By Oliver Optic 32. Poor and Proud, or the Fortunes of Kate Redburn By Oliver Optic 33. Rich and Humble, or the Mission of Bertha Grant By Oliver Optic 34. Sophomores of Radcliffe, or James Trafton and His Boston Friends By Elijah Kellogg 35. Sowed by the Wind, or the Poor Boy’s Fortune By Elijah Kellogg 36. Spark of Genius, or the College Life of James Trafton By Elijah Kellogg 37. Stout Heart, or the Student from Over the Sea By Elijah Kellogg 38. Strong Arm and a Mother’s Blessing By Elijah Kellogg 39. Treasure of the Sea By Prof. James DeMille 40. Try Again, or the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West By Oliver Optic 41. Turning of the Tide, or Radcliffe Rich and his Patients By Elijah Kellogg 42. Unseen Hand, or James Renfew and His Boy Helpers By Elijah Kellogg 43. Watch and Wait, or the Young Fugitives By Oliver Optic 44. Whispering Pine, or the Graduates of Radcliffe By Elijah Kellogg 45. Winning His Spurs, or Henry Morton’s First Trial By Elijah Kellogg 46. Wolf Run, or the Boys of the Wilderness By Elijah Kellogg 47. Work and Win, or Noddy Newman on a Cruise By Oliver Optic 48. Young Deliverers of Pleasant Cove By Elijah Kellogg 49. Young Shipbuilders of Elm Island By Elijah Kellogg 50. Young Trail Hunters By Samuel W. Cozzens 51. Field and Forest, or the Fortunes of a Farmer By Oliver Optic 52. Outward Bound, or Young America Afloat By Oliver Optic 53. The Soldier Boy, or Tom Somers in the Army By Oliver Optic 54. The Starry Flag, or the Young Fisherman of Cape Ann By Oliver Optic 55. Through by Daylight, or the Young Engineer of the Lake Shore Railroad By Oliver Optic 56. Cruises with Captain Bob around the Kitchen Fire By B. P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington) 57. The Double-Runner Club, or the Lively Boys of Rivertown By B. P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington) 58. Ike Partington and His Friends, or the Humors of a Human Boy By B. P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington) 59. Locke Amsden the Schoolmaster By Judge D. P. Thompson 60. The Rangers By Judge D. P. Thompson 61. The Green Mountain Boys By Judge D. P. Thompson 62. A Missing Million, or the Adventures of Louis Belgrave By Oliver Optic 63. A Millionaire at Sixteen, or the Cruise of the “Guardian Mother” By Oliver Optic 64. A Young Knight Errant, or Cruising in the West Indies By Oliver Optic 65. Strange Sights Abroad, or Adventures in European Waters By Oliver Optic 66. Facing the Enemy The Life of Gen. Wm. Tecumseh Sherman By P. C. Headley 67. Fight it Out on This Line The Life and Deeds of Gen. U. S. Grant By P. C. Headley 68. Fighting Phil The Life of Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan By P. C. Headley 69. Old Salamander The Life of Admiral David G. Farragut By P. C. Headley 70. Old Stars The Life of Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchell By P. C. Headley 71. The Miner Boy and His Monitor The Career of John Ericsson, Engineer By P. C. Headley 72. The Young Silver Seekers By Samuel W. Cozzens 73. Drake the Sea King of Devon By George Makepeace Towle 74. Magellan, or the First Voyage around the World By G. M. Towle 75. Marco Polo, His Travels and Adventures By G. M. Towle 76. Pizarro, His Adventures and Conquests By George M. Towle 77. Raleigh, His Voyages and Adventures By George M. Towle 78. Vasco da Gama, His Voyages and Adventures By G. M. Towle 79. The Heroes and Martyrs of Invention By George M. Towle 80. Live Boys, or Charlie and Nasho in Texas By A. Morecamp 81. Live Boys in the Black Hills By Arthur Morecamp 82. Down the West Branch By Capt. C. A. J. Farrar 83. Eastward Ho! By Capt. C. A. J. Farrar 84. Up the North Branch By Capt. C. A. J. Farrar 85. Wild Woods Life By Capt. C. A. J. Farrar 86. Child of the Tide By Mrs. E. D. Cheney 87. The Boys of Thirty-Five By E. H. Elwell 88. Perseverance Island By Douglas Frazar 89. Going West By Oliver Optic 90. Little Bobtail By Oliver Optic NEW TITLES ADDED IN 1904 91. Fore and Aft By Robert B. Dixon 92. Pocket Island By Charles Clark Munn 93. Donald’s School Days By Gen. O. O. Howard 94. Henry in the War By Gen. O. O. Howard 95. All Adrift By Oliver Optic 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 get 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. 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. Of course football is an important feature, but this is far more than a football book. It is a story of character formation told in a most wholesome and manly way. In this development athletics play an important part, to be sure, but are only one feature in carrying the hero, “Dick Melvin,” on to a worthy manhood. “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 THIS story is lively and worth telling, and the life presented is that of a real school, interesting, diversified, and full of striking incidents, while the characters are true and consistent types of American boyhood and youth. The athletics are technically correct, abounding in helpful suggestions, soundly and wisely given, and the moral tone is high and set by action rather than preaching. “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 at the same time made equally marked progress in the formation of character. It introduces the leading arguments for and against football in connection with the difficulties to be overcome before the hero’s father finally consents to allow his son to represent his academy in this way. “The book gives boys an interesting story, much football information, and many lessons in true manliness.”—Watchman, Boston. JACK TENFIELD’S STAR By Martha James Illustrated by Charles Copeland Large 12mo $1.00 JACK TENFIELD is a bright Boston boy, who, while preparing for college, is brought to face the fact that his father, a benevolent physician, and supposed to be well-to-do, had really left no estate. Jack resolutely defends his father’s memory, and makes the best of it. Circumstances bring much travel and many adventures, in all of which his generous, manly character rings true. That Jack is capable of being his “own star” well expresses the excellent thought of the book, which is remarkable for variety of well-told incidents. “A clean, wholesome, enjoyable book.”—The American Boy, Detroit, Mich. Tom Winstone, “Wide Awake” By Martha James Large 12mo Illustrated by W. Herbert Dunton $1.00 WE have often wished that we could secure a book for boys like the undying ones written by J. T. 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TWO YOUNG INVENTORS THE STORY OF THE FLYING BOAT By ALVAH MILTON KERR Illustrated $1.25 HERE is a rattling good story; a tale of mystery, mechanism, and getting on in the world that will be a boy’s favorite for years. Two youths, both born inventors, make each other’s acquaintance as a result of misfortunes attending a Minnesota cyclone. Their efforts to perfect a flying-boat that shall not only skim the water, but rise into the air, result in the securing of a mechanical education. Mr. Kerr has solved the problem of a book that shall be intensely exciting and yet thoroughly wholesome. “The ingenuity and pluck of these two worthy heroes supply just the right material for the encouragement of ambitious youth.”—Boston Beacon. “The book is full of life, incident, and stirring success.”—Watchman, Boston. “The book is deeply interesting, at times intensely exciting, and yet thoroughly clean and wholesome throughout.”—Portland Express. YOUNG HEROES OF WIRE AND RAIL By ALVAH MILTON KERR Illustrated 12mo Cloth $1.25 THE place which the sea once held in supplying thrilling tales of heroism and peril is now being largely usurped by that powerful agent of progress, the railway service, and with no lessening of interest. It is also very attractive to know how those who bear the vast responsibilities of this service perform their work and meet the fearful emergencies that may arise at any time. “The tone of the work is healthful and inspiring.”—Boston Herald. “They are calculated to inspire boys to become manly, and incidentally they contain considerable valuable information.”—Newark News. “An ideal book for a young boy is ‘Young Heroes of Wire and Rail.’”—Episcopal Recorder, Philadelphia. THE GREGORY GUARDS By Emma Lee Benedict Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill 12mo $1.25 A YOUNG man of wealth is trustee for a fund to help boys and chooses six to pass the summer at his home on an island near New York. These lads of widely different temperaments in true boy fashion form a “club,” whose highest purpose it is to watch over the property and interests of their benefactor, and to which they give his name. All profit in great measure from a summer that is a turning point in their lives. A story of reaping good by doing good, bright and entertaining and full of life, incident, and good sense. “It is a story along novel lines, and may be warmly commended.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Young Vigilantes A Story of California Life in the Fifties By Samuel Adams Drake Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman Price $1.25 FEW men now remain who can describe the “Forty-Niners” from personal knowledge and experience, and the very best one of them is the noted historical writer, Col. Drake. One of two young chums in Boston yields to the excitement of the day and goes to California, partly at his friend’s expense. Later, the hero of the story is driven by injustice to make his way thither via the route across Nicaragua, befriended by an old sailor. A reunion and exciting experiences in San Francisco follow. “The book is a bright, able, and wholesome contribution to the knowledge of our country’s progress.”—Religious Telescope, Dayton, O. Joe’s Signal Code By W. Reiff Hesser Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill $1.25 THIS book tells of the abandoning of a fine ship with its cargo in the Pacific Ocean. The leading characters, who are to leave in the last boat, had their escape cut off by its destruction, but succeed in saving the ship and lead a most interesting life for more than a year on a hitherto unknown island. “The boys will enjoy it from cover to cover. The book is many degrees above the ordinary story.”—American Boy, Detroit. PATRIOTIC SERIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS “Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime.” The volumes included in this series tend to inculcate the spirit of patriotism and good citizenship. The boys and girls of to-day are here made acquainted with the lives and characters of many noble men and women of this and other countries. The information is pleasantly and vividly imparted in the form of popular biography as well as fiction by well-known and popular writers. Uniform Cloth Binding New and Attractive Dies Illustrated Price per volume $1.00 1. Bobbin Boy The Early Life of Gen. N. P. Banks 2. Border Boy A Popular Life of Daniel Boone By W. H. Bogart 3. Daring Deeds of the Revolution By Henry C. Watson 4. Dora Darling or the Daughter of the Regiment By Jane G. Austin 5. Dora Darling and Little Sunshine By Jane G. Austin 6. Father of his Country A Popular Life of George Washington By Henry C. Watson 7. Friend of Washington A Popular Life of General Lafayette. By Henry C. Watson. 8. Great Men and Gallant Deeds By J. G. Edgar 9. Great Peacemaker A Popular Life of William Penn By Henry C. Watson 10. Great Expounder Young Folks’ Life of Daniel Webster 11. Good and Great Men Their Brave Deeds and Works By John Frost, LL.D. 12. Little Corporal Young Folks’ Life of Napoleon Bonaparte By John Frost, LL.D. 13. Mill Boy of the Slashes Life of Henry Clay By John Frost 14. Noble Deeds of American Women Edited by J. Clement 15. Old Bell of Independence By Henry C. Watson 16. Old Hickory Life of Andrew Jackson By John Frost 17. Old Rough and Ready Young Folks’ Life of Gen. Zachary Taylor By John Frost, LL.D. 18. Pioneer Mothers of the West Daring and Heroic Deeds of American Women By John Frost, LL.D. 19. Printer Boy or How Ben Franklin made his Mark 20. Poor Richard’s Story A Popular Life of Ben Franklin By Henry C. Watson 21. Paul and Persis or the Revolutionary Struggle in the Mohawk Valley By Mary E. Brush 22. Quaker among the Indians By Thomas C. Battey 23. Swamp Fox Life of Gen. Francis Marion By John Frost 24. Women of Worth whom the World Loves to Honor 25. Young Invincibles or Patriotism at Home. By I. H. Anderson Newly arranged Standard Collection of History, Biography, Heroism, and Adventure Thirty favorites in new series New uniform cover design Attractive dies Fine cloth binding Illustrated Price per volume 75 cents. This series can truly be said to cover the world in its scope, as it chronicles heroic and daring exploits in all climes, told by an exceptionally strong list of authors. It is just the library to entertain and inform a live boy, and, while composed of books that arouse eager interest, is wholly free from cheap sensationalism. 1. Adventures of Dick Onslow among the Redskins By W. H. K. Kingston 2. African Crusoes, The By Mrs. R. Lee 3. Among the Brigands By Prof. James DeMille 4. Anthony Waymouth By W. H. K. Kingston 5. Arctic Crusoe, The, Adventures on the Sea of Ice By Percy B. St. John 6. 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This book is fitted to keep it alive without descending to improbability or cheap sensationalism. BOOKS BY EVERETT T. TOMLINSON. THE WAR OF 1812 SERIES Six volumes Cloth Illustrated by A. B. 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 Brave 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 tribes encamped on the banks of the river, and learn from them their customs, habits, and quaint legends. PREVIOUS VOLUMES CAMPING ON THE ST. LAWRENCE Or, On the Trail of the Early Discoverers Cloth Illustrated $1.50 THE HOUSE-BOAT ON THE ST. LAWRENCE Or, Following Frontenac Cloth Illustrated $1.50 BY THE SAME AUTHOR STORIES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION First and Second Series Cloth Illustrated $1.00 each The Tide-Mill Stories By J. T. TROWBRIDGE ———— Six Volumes. Cloth. Illustrated. Price per volume, $1.25 ———— Phil and His Friends. The hero is the son of a man who from drink got into debt, and, after having given a paper to a creditor authorizing him to keep the son as a security for his claim, ran away, leaving poor Phil a bond slave. The story involves a great many unexpected incidents, some of which are painful and some comic. Phil manfully works for a year cancelling his father’s debt, and then escapes. The characters are strongly drawn, and the story is absorbingly interesting. The Tinkham Brothers’ Tide-Mill. “‘The Tinkham Brothers’ were the devoted sons of an invalid mother. The story tells how they purchased a tide-mill, which afterwards, by the ill-will and obstinacy of neighbors, became a source of much trouble to them. It tells also how, by discretion and the exercise of a peaceable spirit, they at last overcame all difficulties.”—Christian Observer, Louisville, Ky. The Satin-wood Box. “Mr. Trowbridge has always a purpose in his writings, and this time he has undertaken to show how very near an innocent boy can come to the guilty edge and yet be able by fortunate circumstances to rid himself of all suspicion of evil. There is something winsome about the hero; but he has a singular way of falling into bad luck, although the careful reader will never feel the least disposed to doubt his honesty.”—Syracuse Standard. The Little Master. This is the story of a schoolmaster, his trials, disappointments, and final victory. It will recall to many a man his experience in teaching pupils, and in managing their opinionated and self-willed parents. The story has the charm which is always found in Mr. Trowbridge’s works. “Many a teacher could profit by reading of this plucky little schoolmaster.”—Journal of Education. His One Fault. “As for the hero of this story ‘His One Fault’ was absent-mindedness. He forgot to lock his uncle’s stable door, and the horse was stolen. In seeking to recover the stolen horse, he unintentionally stole another. In trying to restore the wrong horse to his rightful owner, he was himself arrested. After no end of comic and dolorous adventures, he surmounted all his misfortunes by downright pluck and genuine good feeling. It is a noble contribution to juvenile literature.”—Woman’s Journal. Peter Budstone. “Mr. J. T. Trowbridge’s ‘Peter Budstone’ is another of those altogether good and wholesome books for boys of which it is hardly possible to speak too highly. This author shows us convincingly how juvenile reading may be made vivacious and interesting, and yet teach sound and clean lessons. ‘Peter Budstone’ shows forcibly the folly and crime of ‘hazing.’ It is the story of a noble young fellow whose reason is irreparably overthrown by the savage treatment he received from some of his associates at college. It is a powerful little book, and we wish every schoolboy and college youth could read it.”—Philadelphia American. The Silver Medal Stories By J. T. TROWBRIDGE ———— Six Volumes. Cloth. Illustrated. Price per volume, $1.25 ———— The Silver Medal, and other Stories. There were some schoolboys who had turned housebreakers, and among their plunder was a silver medal that had been given to one John Harrison by the Humane Society 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. The Toby Trafford Series BY J. T. TROWBRIDGE ————
———— The Fortunes of Toby Trafford. “A new story by J. T. Trowbridge, is, like all Mr. Trowbridge’s fiction, the good wine that needs no bush. The plot is full of interest, and is still so natural that it all might happen in a thousand places. Its scenes and its people are everywhere; only few writers have Trowbridge’s eyes to see them. The hero is not an impossibly good boy, but he has manly instincts; and he is kept from follies and mistakes by the counsels of an excellent mother, and of his wise and noble-hearted schoolmaster. Boys will follow his career and his good and bad fortune with genuine interest.”—Boston Budget. Father Brighthopes; An Old Clergyman’s Vacation. “To the many friends which this book will doubtless gain it may be well to say that Father Brighthopes of the story gains that cheery name by his readiness to always see the bright and not the dark side of any difficulty, great or small. The few weeks which he spent with his friends, the Roydons, wrought a change in their daily life as marked as it was pleasant. The writings of Trowbridge are too well known to require comment, since almost everyone is familiar with his straightforward, simple style, underlying which there is not a little humor as well as pathos.”—Chicago Times. Woodie Thorpe’s Pilgrimage, and other Stories. “The scenes are full of human interest and lifelikeness, and will please many an old reader, as well as the younger folks, for whose delectation it is intended. As in all the books of this author the spirit is manly, sincere, and in the best sense moral. There is no “goody” talk and no cant, but principles of truthfulness, integrity, and self-reliance are quietly inculcated by example. It is safe to say that any boy will be the better for reading books like this.”—St. Botolph. ———— For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price ———— Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Boston | ||||||
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