The following pages contain advertisements of Macmillan books for boys and girls.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
By ADAIR ALDON
The action of the tale, and there is lots of it, takes place on an island off the coast of Massachusetts immediately prior to the United States' declaration of war on Germany. The hero is a lad of sixteen who is foiled in his plans to go camping, and forced," as he puts it, “to spend the summer on a little two by four island with an old maid aunt.” But adventure unrolls before him and he does not have at all the stupid and uninteresting time which he had anticipated. Quite the contrary, he encounters excitement enough for any red-blooded American youth. The book is a stirring one which would be read with avidity by young folks at any time, but particularly so now, when events connected with the great war are so much in the foreground.
“Its power to thrill and inspire will make it appeal to a public that knows no age limit."—The Living Age.
“Everybody must be fascinated with this vivid and red-blooded story of boyish heroism and constancy at the outbreak of the great war."—N. Y. Tribune.
NEW BOOKS FOR BOYS
With illustrations by E. C. Caswell
This is a rousing story of public school life in a big city, a story full of incidents ranging from hotly contested athletic meets—baseball and basketball games—to mysterious secret society initiations.
The principal character is, perhaps, one J. Henley Smollet, whose well-to-do father decrees that he shall go to the nearby public school instead of to the aristocratic private institution on which the boy’s heart had been set. There is a good reason for the senior Smollet’s action, as the story shows. Hardly less appealing as a character is Isadore Smollensky, of the East Side, whose first encounter with J. Henley is of a pugilistic nature, but who ultimately becomes his warm friend.
Not only is the story vivid and exciting, but it gives, as well, a mighty good idea of the democratizing process going on in our public schools of to-day.
Under Orders: The Story of Tim and “The Club.”
By HAROLD S. LATHAM
Illustrated by E. C. Caswell
This is a book that belongs decidedly to the American boy of the present day. It is the story of Tim Scarsboro, a happy-go-lucky, lovable lad who finds an outlet for his boundless energy in the Pettibone Boys’ Club.
How Tim and the other boys of this club go camping, get up a minstrel, sell Thrift Stamps and do other patriotic work, as well as have a “grand, glorious time” on numerous occasions is described in a series of interesting chanters, culminating in a scene of such life and spirit as will appeal to any American lad.
Incidentally, in Under Orders, the boys’ club movement gets some of the credit that is due it for the good that it is doing in building up the ideals of American youth.
The Boy’s Own Book of Great Inventions
By F. L. DARROW
Every boy—and many a girl, too—likes to make things, and it is out of this certain interest which youth has in invention that this book has grown. Its appeal is primarily to the inventive faculty latent in every youngster. Not only does Mr. Darrow describe the great inventions of man, but he applies the principles underlying them to simple apparatus which the boy can construct for himself. The aeroplane, the balloon, the various kinds of engines, the telephone, the telegraph, the submarine, the telescope—all these and many more come in for consideration, followed in each case with simple experiments which the reader can make for himself, and in many cases with explicit directions for the construction of an adaptation of the machine or instrument.
Here’s a little boy, alone and friendless, in Last Chance Gulch. His aunt, who was his only relative, has just died. The future looks pretty dark to him—and that is where the story begins.
What happens to Stephen after Emery and Sara Clark take him back to their ranch out in the wildest part of Montana, how he rides the bucking “Scratch Gravel,” helps to capture the bank robbers, and how he saves Emery Clark’s life by doing a very brave (and hard) thing, and best of all, how he takes his “last chance,” is told in the most interesting and exciting way.
Boys will like this book immensely because it is full of adventure and something happens on every page. What happens? Well—that’s telling!
NEW BOOKS FOR GIRLS
By MARGARET ASHMUN
Author of “Isabel Carleton's Year,” etc.
The girls who have read and enjoyed the preceding Isabel Carleton stories will be delighted to know that in this new volume, Isabel’s life grows even more interesting, as she goes on through the university. What happens in Jefferson, how the war is brought home to Isabel and the story of two of her friends in particular makes an absorbing narrative.
Isabel Carleton has always been a lovable, straightforward, human girl, and all of these qualities are heightened in the new chronicle.
ANOTHER ELIZABETH BESS STORY
By E. C. SCOTT
Author of “Elizabeth Bess”
This book tells more of the delightful little girl who was the central figure in a story published last year which has met with the favor of thousands of young people.
Elizabeth’s active interest in her “fambly” leads her to the doing of unheard of things in their behalf. These experiences and adventures, of which not the least appealing is that growing out of her secret alliance with a fairy king who was to turn stones into gold when his wand, which unfortunately was mislaid, should be recovered, comprise a volume which is different from the average child story.
It is full of whimsical humor and of the sort of entertainment which girls in their teens—and younger and older perhaps—find most satisfying.
ANOTHER “GIRL PATRIOT” STORY
By EMILIE BENSON KNIFE and ALDEN A. KNIFE
Authors of “A Maid of '76,” “Polly Trotter, Patriot,” etc.
Dorothea Drummond, a young Scotch girl on a visit to relations in the South during the Civil War, learns that in the household there is a member of the “Red String,” a mysterious society, pledged to work against the Confederacy and to help escaping prisoners. Who is it? Beautiful April May, a rebel through and through, who has parted from her lover because he did not volunteer? Quaint Miss Imogene, with her memories of a favorite suitor from the North? Mrs. May, an avowed submissionist? Val Tracy, a care-free Irishman fighting for the love of a good fight? Or is it one of the servants, daring much when freedom is near?
Mr. and Mrs. Knipe tell a story of tangled fortune in “Girls of ’64” that a girl of 18 (or 19) will hardly put down before its happy ending is reached.
OTHER BOOKS FROM THE “GIRL PATRIOT” SERIES
It is full of action and holds the interest from the first page; it gives a much more vivid picture of colonial times than a child could get from half a dozen histories.
“The books which Dr. and Mrs. Knipe have written are more than worthy of praise, for they represent the best type of juvenile fiction.”—Boston Herald.
With rare ability the authors have woven their careful historical knowledge about an exciting tale of Peter Stuyvesant’s time. It will inspire the reader with the same sympathy for those early patriots as the other books in this splendid series.
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