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._

[Illustration: THE GREAT YEAR]

=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._

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

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON

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

[Illustration: The Boy Craftsman]

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
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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
eve