Silver Medal Stories

By J. T. TROWBRIDGE

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_Six Volumes. Cloth. Illustrated. Price per volume, $1.25_

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=The Silver Medal=, AND OTHER STORIES.

There were some schoolboys who had turned
housebreakers, and among their plunder was a silver
medal that had been given to one John Harris by the
Humane Society for rescuing from drowning a certain
Benton Barry. Now Benton Barry was one of the wretched
housebreakers. This is the summary of the opening
chapter. The story is intensely interesting in its
serious as well as its humorous parts.

=His Own Master.=

"This is a book after the typical boy's own heart. Its
hero is a plucky young fellow, who, seeing no chance
for himself at home, determines to make his own way in
the world.... He sets out accordingly, trudges to the
far West, and finds the road to fortune an
unpleasantly rough one."--_Philadelphia Inquirer._

=Bound in Honor.=

This story is of a lad, who, though not guilty of any
bad action, has been an eye-witness of the conduct of
his comrades, and felt "Bound in Honor" not to tell.

"A capital book in all respects, overflowing with all
sorts of fun and adventure; just the sort of book, in
short, that the young folks will be anxious to read
and re-read with as much continuous interest as the
most favored of their storybooks."--_Philadelphia
Leader._

=The Pocket Rifle.=

"A boy's story which will be read with avidity, as it
ought to be, it is so brightly and frankly written,
and with such evident knowledge of the temperaments
and habits, the friendships and enmities of
schoolboys."--_New York Mail._

"This is a capital story for boys. It teaches honesty,
integrity, and friendship, and how best they can be
promoted. It shows the danger of hasty judgment and
circumstantial evidence; that right-doing pays, and
dishonesty never."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._

=The Jolly Rover.=

"This book will help to neutralize the ill effects of
any poison which children may have swallowed in the
way of sham-adventurous stories and wildly fictitious
tales. 'The Jolly Rover' runs away from