. Stories of the Civil War . cally valuable, and thekeynote to the series will be loyalty to a re-united country, in which sentiment those of allsections can heartily join. ••There are enough exciting events to suit theaverage live boy, and there is the advantage of a back-ground of reality and a lesson in history.*—BrooklynEagle. •Theauthor has a felicitous way of reaching and holding the boyish mindand heart with his excellent stories with historical backgrounds.—ChicagoNews. The Young Blockaders THIS story takes its readers into the midst ofthe blockading fleet. Without bitterness itportray
. Stories of the Civil War . cally valuable, and thekeynote to the series will be loyalty to a re-united country, in which sentiment those of allsections can heartily join. ••There are enough exciting events to suit theaverage live boy, and there is the advantage of a back-ground of reality and a lesson in history.*—BrooklynEagle. •Theauthor has a felicitous way of reaching and holding the boyish mindand heart with his excellent stories with historical backgrounds.—ChicagoNews. The Young Blockaders THIS story takes its readers into the midst ofthe blockading fleet. Without bitterness itportrays some of the daring deeds of each sidein the struggle. Naturally, its incidents andadventures are based upon the daring attemptsof the blockader and the blockade-runner tooutwit each other. There is an abundance ofaction and excitement in the story, which isfounded upon fact. Its readers will be interestedand will obtain an insight into an important andcomparatively unfamiliar phase of the Irrepres-sible interest to a higher plane than the average fiction for young people.—Baptist Dr Tomlinsons stories have an earnest purpose that lifts their engrossing , fie Watchman. It is a good story, and the author, who has written so much and so success-fully for boys, is at his best in this volume.—Buffalo News, For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers L0THR0P, LEE & SHEPARD CO., Boston Making of Our Nation Series By WILLIAM C. SPRAQUE Large nmo, Cloth Illustrated by A. Price per volume, $ B. Shute THE BOY COURIER OFNAPOLEON ASTOFYOP The Boy Courier of Napoleon A Story of the Louisiana Purchase WILLIAM C. SPRAGUE, the notably suc-cessful editor of The American Boy,has given for the first time the historyof the Louisiana Purchase in entertaining storyform. The hero is introduced as a Frenchdrummer boy in the great battle of serves as a valet to Napoleon and later issent with secret messages to the Fren
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