THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
371 
THE 
Young Scientist. 
A Practical Journal for Amateurs. 
(With which are incorporated "The Technolo- 
gist." " The Industrial Monthly," 
and *' Home Arts.") 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT %l.m PER YEAR. 
EDITOES. 
JOHN PHIN. 
FEED. T. HODGSON. 
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HE success which has attended 
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since the enlargement of the 
Young Scientist, has deter- 
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Boys who are fond of reading the story 
j)apers which contain such impossible 
tales, should try and change their read- 
ing, and for the sake of variety, if for 
nothing else, read some of the following 
works which we are sure they will find 
as interesting and much more instructive 
than anything found in the weekly story 
papers. Besides, the works named, are 
such, as every wise person will approve 
of,^ and which no parent or guardian will 
object to ; and when we consider that a 
boy's reading is the most important part 
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stories, get him a ''Biography of Paul 
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Cooper's "History of the American 
Navy." After reading these he may be 
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and Marryat's novels, books that are 
much healthier than most of the rose 
water sea stories of the present day. If 
a boy desires reading of a stirring kind in 
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Towle's series of books about the 
"Heroes 'of History," or Dr. Eggleston's 
"Lives of Famous Indians," and the 
reading of these will surely lead the boy 
on to a desire to know more of the 
" Heroes " and " Indians " of whom he 
reads, and then his mind will be ready to 
take in solid history with enjoyment and 
profit. 
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gent boy will enjoy, may be mentioned, 
" Eobinson Crusoe," " Arabian Night's 
Entertainment," "The Swiss Family 
Kobinson," " The Percy Tales " for short 
readings, "Tales of a Grandfather," 
"Tales of the Border," "Magna Charta 
Stories," by Arthur Gilman, and many 
others of a like nature. 
Every book noticed in the present and 
