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8vo $3.00 _Mr. Beard's book is the first to tell the active, inventive and practical American boy the things he really wants to know; the thousand things he wants to do, and the ten thousand ways in which he can do them, with the helps and ingenious contrivances which every boy can either procure or make._ The author divides the book among the sports of the four seasons; and he has made an almost exhaustive collection of the cleverest modern devices,--besides himself inventing an immense number of capital and practical ideas--in SPRING. AUTUMN. ------------------ ------------------ Kite-Making, Trapping, Fishing, Taxidermy, Aquarium-Making, Home-made Hunting Etc. Apparatus, etc. SUMMER. WINTER. ------------------ ------------------ Boat-Building, Ice-Boating, Boat-Rigging, Snow-Ball Warfare, Boat-Sailing, Winter-Fishing, Camping-Out, Sled-Building, Balloons, Puppet-Shows, Etc. Etc. "We can conceive of few books more useful and interactive to the average boy than this."--_Troy Times._ "This is by far the most intelligible, comprehensive and practical boy's book which we have ever seen."--_Kingston Freeman._ "When selecting books for a boy it should be remembered that such a one as this tends to make him handy, skillful and self-reliant, and that the boy would probably choose it himself."--_Boston Globe._ "Each particular department is minutely illustrated, and the whole is a complete treasury, invaluable not only to the boys themselves, but to parents and guardians who have at heart their happiness and healthful development of mind and muscle."--_Pittsburgh Telegraph._ "The boy who has learned to play all the games and make all the toys of which it teaches, has unconsciously exercised the inventive faculty that is in him, has acquired skill with his hands, and has become a good mechanic and an embryo inventor without knowing it."--_Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin._ ----------------------------------- CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, Publishers, 743 & 745 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
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