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_HERE ARE THE TITLES NOW READY AND THOSE TO BE PUBLISHED_:
1--Motor Matt; or, The King of the Wheel.
2--Motor Matt's Daring; or, True to His Friends.
3--Motor Matt's Century Run; or, The Governor's Courier.
4--Motor Matt's Race; or, The Last Flight of the "Comet."
5--Motor Matt's Mystery; or, Foiling a Secret Plot.
6--Motor Matt's Red Flier; or, On the High Gear.
7--Motor Matt's Clue; or, The Phantom Auto.
8--Motor Matt's Triumph; or, Three Speeds Forward.
9--Motor Matt's Air Ship; or, The Rival Inventors.
10--Motor Matt's Hard Luck; or, The Balloon House Plot.
11--Motor Matt's Daring Rescue; or, The Strange Case of Helen Brady.
12--Motor Matt's Peril; or, Cast Away in the Bahamas.
13--Motor Matt's Queer Find; or, The Secret of the Iron Chest.
14--Motor Matt's Promise; or, The Wreck of the "Hawk."
15--Motor Matt's Submarine; or, The Strange Cruise of the "Grampus."
16--Motor Matt's Quest; or, Three Chums in Strange Waters.
17--Motor Matt's Close Call; or, The Snare of Don Carlos.
18--Motor Matt in Brazil; or, Under the Amazon.
19--Motor Matt's Defiance; or, Around the Horn.
20--Motor Matt Makes Good; or, Another Victory for the Motor Boys.
21--Motor Matt's Launch; or, A Friend in Need.
22--Motor Matt's Enemies; or, A Struggle for the Right.
23--Motor Matt's Prize; or, The Pluck that Wins.
24--Motor Matt on the Wing; or, Flying for Fame and Fortune.
To be Published on August 9th.
25--Motor Matt's Reverse; or, Caught in a Losing Game.
To be Published on August 16th.
26--Motor Matt's "Make or Break"; or, Advancing the Spark of Friendship.
To be Published on August 23d.
27--Motor Matt's Engagement; or, On the Road With a Show.
To be Published on August 30th.
28--Motor Matt's "Short Circuit"; or, The Mahout's Vow.
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Transcriber's Notes:
Added table of contents.
Italics are represented with _underscores_, bold with =equal signs=.
Converted oe ligatures to "oe" for this text version; ligaturesretained in HTML edition.
Retained inconsistent hyphenation from original ("straightaway" vs."straight-away").
Page 9, changed "science of variation" to "science of aviation."
Page 11, added missing apostrophe to "can't catch up."
Page 14, changed "aim" to "air" ("high into the air.").
Page 15, corrected "pratically" to "practically."
Page 17, changed "waster" to "was ter" ("cowboy feller was ter").
Page 18, corrected "earthern" to "earthen" ("pail on the earthenshelf").
Page 21, corrected "himstlf" to "himself" ("How was he to freehimself?").