her 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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For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the
publishers,

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON

MR. RESPONSIBILITY, PARTNER

How Bobby and Joe Achieved Success in Business

First Volume of "Business Boys Series"

By CLARENCE JOHNSON MESSER

12mo ^Cloth ^Illustrated ^Price, Net, $1.00 ^Postpaid, $1.10

[Illustration: Mr. Responsibility, Partner]

This is frankly a book with a purpose, and its purpose is to teach boys
the fundamental business customs of every-day life, and at the same time
encourage the sound traits of character essential to commercial success
and good citizenship. This is done by a good and interesting story of
some live boys, whose experiences will hold the attention of every one.
The leading spirit is pictured with a healthy boy's human qualities to
be trained, and impulses to be overcome. A companionable and sensible
father aids him judiciously, and leaves success to be worked out on
natural lines. All the stage effects of the cheaper kinds of boys' books
are blissfully absent; there are no villains plotting against the
upright, no nations saved by the precocious intelligence of youth, and
no impossible adventure or accomplishment--just the problems before
average boys, and that can be solved as thes