by Oliver Optic
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,$2.00
The Boy Craftsman]
Every real boy wishes to design and make things, but the questions ofmaterials and tools are often hard to pet around. Nearly all books onthe subject call for a greater outlay of money than is within themeans of many boys, or their parents wish to expend in such ways. Inthis book a number of chapters give suggestions for carrying on asmall business that will bring a boy in money with which to buy toolsand materials necessary for making apparatus and articles described inother chapters, while the ideas are so practical that many anindustrious boy can learn what he is best fitted for in his life work.No work of its class is so completely up-to-date or so worthy in pointof thoroughness and avoidance of danger. The drawings are profuse andexcellent, and every feature of the book is first-class. It tells howto make a boy's workshop, how to handle tools, and what can be madewith them; how to start a printing shop and conduct an amateurnewspaper, how to make photographs, build a log cabin, a canvas canoe,a gymnasium, a miniature theatre, and many other things dear to thesoul 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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For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers,
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON