*^The Half-Bacfc«- i 



A Story of School, Football, and Golf. 



By fiALPH HENDY BABfiOUfi. 



12mo. Illuslraled. Cloth, $1.50. 



THIS breezy story of outdoor sport will be re;ul witii the most intense interest by every 

 healthy boy, and by many girls. Mr. Barbour's hero is introduced to the reader at a 

 preparatory school, where the serious work and discipline are varied by golf and football 

 matches and a regatta. Later, the young half-back of the school earns a place upon a Varsity 

 team and distinguishes himself in a great university game, which is sketched in a most brilliant 

 and stirring chapter. Mr. Barbour's vivid and picturesque sketches of sports are not permitted 

 to point a false moral. Without obtruding the lesson upon the reader, he shows that the ac- 

 quisition of knowledge, and not athletics, is the end and aim of school and college life. 

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