THE FIRST REALLY PRACTICAL BOY’S BOOK. 
THE AMERICAN BOY’S HANDY BOOK; 
OR, WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT. 
By DANIEL C. BEARD. 
Fully illustrated by the author. One volume, 8 vo. New Edition, $ 2.00 
The popular Boy’s Own Book of a generation ago is now, for Americans at least, completely 
obsolete. The imitations and elaborations of it have all the complicated and unpractical features 
of the original, without its merits. Most of them treat the reader either as a child or as a person 
with all manner of mechanical and scientific.resources always at hand to help him. 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. 
( Kite-Making, 
J Fishing, 
\ Aquarium-Making, 
( Etc. 
Trapping, 
Taxidermy, 
Home-Made Hunting Appar¬ 
atus, Etc. 
AUTUMN. 
SUMMER. 
Boat-Building, 
Boat-Rigging, 
Boat-Sailing, 
Camping-Out, 
Balloons, 
Etc. 
Ice-Boating, 
Snow-Ball Warfare, 
) 
Winter Fishing, 
j- WINTER. 
Sled-Building. 
Puppet-Shows, 
Etc. 
THE BOY’S 
LIBRARY OF PLUCK AND ACTION. 
Four volumes, i2mo, in a box, illustrated, $5*°° 
Sold separately, per volume, . . . i- 5 ° 
A JOLLY FELLOWSHIP. 
BY FRANK R. STOCKTON. 
HANS BRINKER; 
Or, THE SILVER SHALES. 
A STORY OF LIFE IN HOLLAND. 
BY MRS. MARY MAPES DODGE. 
THE BOY EMIGRANTS. 
BY NOAH BROOKS. 
THE BOY’S 
Library of Leeenft and CMyalry. 
Edited by SIDNEY LANIER. 
Richly Illustrated by Fredericks, Bensell, and Eappes 
Four vols., cloth, uniform binding, per set, $7.00 
Sold separately, per volume, . . . 2.00 
THE BOY’S KING ARTHUR. 
Being Sir Thomas Mallory’s History of King 
Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. 
THE BOY’S FROISSART. 
Being Sir John Froissart’s Chronicles of Ad¬ 
venture, Battle, and Custom in England, 
France, Spain, Etc. 
THE BOY’S PERCY. 
THE KNIGHTLY LEGENDS OF WALES; 
OR, THE BOY’S MABINOGION. 
PHAETON ROGERS. 
BY ROSSIXER JOHNSON. 
In the “ Boy's Library ofi Fluek and Ac¬ 
tion," the design was to bring together the 
representative and most popular books of four 
of the best known writers for young people. 
The volumes are beautifully illustrated and 
uniformly bound in a most attractive form. 
“Amid all the strange and fanciful scenery of 
these stories, character and the ideals of charac= 
ter remain at the simplest and purest. T- he 
romantic history transpires in the healthy atmos¬ 
phere of the open air on the green earth beneath 
the open sky. . . . The figures of Right, 
Truth, Justice, Honor, Purity, Courage, Rever¬ 
ence for Law, are always in the background; and 
the grand passion inspired by the book is Jor 
strength to do well and nobly in the world,' 
The Independent. 
THE MERRY ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, 
OF GREAT RENOWN IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED 
BY HOWARD PYLE. 1 vol., 4 * 0 . $ 3 -oo. , „ 
This superb book is unquestionably the most original and Maborateever^n^^uceg q Y 
American artist. Mr. Pyle has told with pencil and pen the conip eathered from the old 
Robin Hood and his merry men in their haunts in Sherwood Forest, gathered 
ballads and legends. 
