StNicholas [serial] . y Bar-bours books—The CrimsonSweater, Captain Chub,Tom, Dick, and Harriet,Harrys Island—unfailinglysell and sell and sell in numbersthat prove there is no more pop-ular writer for young people to-day than he. Ralph Henry Barbour is a na-tive and resident of Cambridge,Mass., and a devoted lover of alloutdoor sports. Of course he is !Could any man write of younglife and play, and outdoors, and foot-ball games ashe does, who was not friends with these things! Coming September 24th, too, is the book of TheYoung Railroaders, gathering into one story all theunusual experiences
StNicholas [serial] . y Bar-bours books—The CrimsonSweater, Captain Chub,Tom, Dick, and Harriet,Harrys Island—unfailinglysell and sell and sell in numbersthat prove there is no more pop-ular writer for young people to-day than he. Ralph Henry Barbour is a na-tive and resident of Cambridge,Mass., and a devoted lover of alloutdoor sports. Of course he is !Could any man write of younglife and play, and outdoors, and foot-ball games ashe does, who was not friends with these things! Coming September 24th, too, is the book of TheYoung Railroaders, gathering into one story all theunusual experiences and adventures of Alex Wardand Jack Orr, plucky, quick-witted, manly, modest,brave chaps, whose nimble brains and cool couragestand them in good stead in many a tight place—the kind of young Americans it is good to read is a splendid kind of adventure book—boyswill be fascinated by the clear, vivid, direct telling;and parents will approve the lessons of manlinessand modest courage the story Everybody, big and little, will chuckle over DeWitt Clinton Fallss The Journey Book. Theportions of the book which have appeared in do not begin to show the wealth of funnypictures, merry nonsense, and unique features con-tained in the book. Every page has lots of pictures,and the cover is in color, while the nonsense of bothpictures and text is delicious. Rupert Hughes has written another jolly Lakerimbook, a sequel to his The Dozenfrom Lakerim and The Lake-rim Athletic Club. The Lakerim Athletic Clubwas made up of twelve of theboyishest boys who ever playedfoot-ball and base-ball and tennisand golf, or skated and coastedand canoed, or enjoyed everyother possible kind of outdoorfun. This is the story of one vaca-tion when one of the dozenran away from home and theother eleven went after him intheir war-canoe. They forgot totelegraph home that the wan-derer was found—they were toobusy playing ball and engagingin water contests with newfriends and ri
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