8vo $3.00

_Mr. Beard's book is the first to tell the active, inventive and
practical American boy the things he really wants to know; the thousand
things he wants to do, and the ten thousand ways in which he can do them,
with the helps and ingenious contrivances which every boy can either
procure or make._ The author divides the book among the sports of the
four seasons; and he has made an almost exhaustive collection of the
cleverest modern devices,--besides himself inventing an immense number
of capital and practical ideas--in

SPRING. AUTUMN.
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Kite-Making, Trapping,
Fishing, Taxidermy,
Aquarium-Making, Home-made Hunting
Etc. Apparatus, etc.

SUMMER. WINTER.
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Boat-Building, Ice-Boating,
Boat-Rigging, Snow-Ball Warfare,
Boat-Sailing, Winter-Fishing,
Camping-Out, Sled-Building,
Balloons, Puppet-Shows,
Etc. Etc.

"We can conceive of few books more useful and interactive to the
average boy than this."--_Troy Times._

"This is by far the most intelligible, comprehensive and practical
boy's book which we have ever seen."--_Kingston Freeman._

"When selecting books for a boy it should be remembered that such a
one as this tends to make him handy, skillful and self-reliant, and
that the boy would probably choose it himself."--_Boston Globe._

"Each particular department is minutely illustrated, and the whole is
a complete treasury, invaluable not only to the boys themselves, but
to parents and guardians who have at heart their happiness and
healthful development of mind and muscle."--_Pittsburgh Telegraph._

"The boy who has learned to play all the games and make all the toys
of which it teaches, has unconsciously exercised the inventive
faculty that is in him, has acquired skill with his hands, and has
become a good mechanic and an embryo inventor without knowing
it."--_Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin._

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CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, Publishers,
743 & 745 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.