HANDICRAFT FOR HANDY BOYS
Practical Plans for Work and Play with Many Ideas for Earning Money
By A. NEELY HALL
Author of "The Boy Craftsman"
With Nearly 600 Illustrations and Working-drawings by the Author andNorman P. Hall 8vo. Cloth Net, $2.00 Postpaid, $2.25
This book is intended for boys who want the latest ideas for makingthings, practical plans for earning money, up-to-date suggestions forgames and sports, and novelties for home and school entertainments.
The author has planned the suggestions on an economical basis, providingfor the use of the things at hand, and many of the things which can bebought cheaply. Mr. Hall's books have won the confidence of parents, whorealize that in giving them to their boys they are providing wholesomeoccupations which will encourage self-reliance and resourcefulness, anddiscourage tendencies to be extravagant.
Outdoor and indoor pastimes have been given equal attention, and much ofthe work is closely allied to the studies of the modern grammar and highschools, as will be seen by a glance at the following list of subjects,which are only a few among those discussed in the 500 pages of text:
MANUAL TRAINING; EASILY-MADE FURNITURE; FITTING UP A BOY'S ROOM; HOME-MADE GYMNASIUM APPARATUS; A BOY'S WIRELESS TELEGRAPH OUTFIT; COASTERS AND BOB-SLEDS; MODEL AEROPLANES; PUSHMOBILES AND OTHER HOME-MADE WAGONS; A CASTLE CLUBHOUSE AND HOME-MADE ARMOR.
Modern ingenious work such as the above cannot fail to developmechanical ability in a boy, and this book will get right next to hisheart.
"The book is a treasure house for boys who like to work with tools and have a purpose in their working."--_Springfield Union._
"It is a capital book for boys since it encourages them in wholesome, useful occupation, encouraged self-reliance and resourcefulness and at the same time discourages extravagance."--_Brooklyn Times._
"It is all in this book, and if anything has got away from the author we do not know what it is."--_Buffalo News._
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THE BOY CRAFTSMAN
Practical and Profitable Ideas for a Boy's Leisure Hours
By A. NEELY HALL
Illustrated with over 400 diagrams and working drawings 8vo Price, net, $1.60 Postpaid, $1.82
Every real boy wishes to design and make things, but the questions ofmaterials and tools are often hard to get around. Nearly all books onthe subject call for a greater outlay of money than is within the meansof many boys, or their parents wish to expend in such ways. In this booka number of chapters give suggestions for carrying on a small businessthat will bring a boy in money with which to buy tools and materialsnecessary for making apparatus and articles described in other chapters,while the ideas are so practical that many an industrious boy can learnwhat he is best fitted for in his life work. No work of its class is socompletely up-to-date or so worthy in point of thoroughness andavoidance of danger. The drawings are profuse and excellent, and everyfeature of the book is first-class. It tells how to make a boy'sworkshop, how to handle tools, and what can be made with them; how tostart a printing shop and conduct an amateur newspaper, how to makephotographs, build a log cabin, a canvas canoe, a gymnasium, a miniaturetheatre, and many other things dear to the soul of youth.
We cannot imagine a more delightful present for a boy than this book.--_Churchman, N.Y._
Every boy should have this book. It's a practical book--it gets right next to the boy's heart and stays there. He will have it near him all the time, and on every page there is a lesson or something that will stand the boy in good need. Beyond a doubt in its line this is one of the cleverest books on the market.--_Providence News._
If a boy has any sort of a mechanical turn of mind, his parents should see that he has this book.--_Boston Journal._
This is a book that will do boys good.--_Buffalo Express._
The boy who will not find this book a mine of joy and profit must be queerly constituted.--_Pittsburgh Gazette._
Will be a delight to the boy mechanic.--_Watchman, Boston._
An admirable book to give a boy.--_Newark News._
This book is the best yet offered for its large number of practical and profitable ideas.--_Milwaukee Free Press._
Parents ought to know of this book.--_New York Globe._
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Transcriber's Note: The following typographical errors present in the original print edition have been corrected in this electronic version.
In Chapter I, "I broke for the the ravine" was changed to "I broke for the ravine".
An illustration caption has been changed from "In the Home of the Kodiac Bear" to "In the Home of the Kodiak Bear".
In Chapter II, "through the standstone to some other rock" was changed to "through the sandstone to some other rock".
In the illustration captioned "A Tangle of Swamp", a missing period was added after "U.S.G.S".
In Chapter III, "had been been a little over his knees" was changed to "had been a little over his knees", and "safely esconced among the branches" was changed to "safely ensconced among the branches".
In Chapter V, a missing quotation mark was added before "You bet!", and an extraneous quotation mark was removed following "built up somewhere else in some other way."
In Chapter VI, "lie of of the land" was changed to "lie of the land".
In Chapter VIII, an extraneous quotation mark was removed after "They tote every drop."
In the illustration captioned "Bridged by Double Tree", "U.S.G.A." was changed to "U.S.G.S.".
In Chapter IX, a missing quotation mark was added after "Mr. Masseth's."
In Chapter XI, "the sting of a black hornet?" was changed to "the sting of a black hornet.".
In Chapter XVIII, a missing question mark was added after "cows here to do all the work".
In addition, an advertisement for other books in the U. S. Service Series has been moved from the front of the book to the back.
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