Chapter I: Front Matter

SOME SPECIAL BOOKS

FOR NEIGHBORHOOD CLUBS.

To meet the growing demand for books for young people which shall be as entertaining as stories, and at the same time educational in influence, we suggest the following:

I. =The Reading Union Library=, a series prepared for the
Chautauqua Young Folks’ Reading Union, $1.00 volume, fully
illustrated; four volumes now ready, others in preparation:
(a) _Magna Charta Stories_, thrilling tales of the world’s
great struggles for liberty, edited by Arthur Gilman; (b)
_Old Ocean_, the romance and wonders of the sea, by Ernest
Ingersoll; (c) _Dooryard Folks_, fascinating natural history,
by Miss A. B. Harris, and including the author’s curious
experiments with “A Winter Garden”; (d) _The Great Composers_,
a condensed, comprehensive story of music and musicians, by H.
Butterworth.

II. =Our Business Boys.= The ways to success in business life,
the rocks of danger, as described by _eighty-three business
men_, in response to inquiries by the author, Rev. F. E. Clark.
Price, 60 cents.

III. For reading after or in connection with, the above, there
are three volumes about those who have worked and won: (a)
_Men of Mark_, (b) _Noble Workers_, (c) _Stories of Success_;
to which may well be added (d) _A Noble Life; or, Hints for
Living_, by Rev. O. A. Kingsbury; each volume, $1.25.

IV. Charlotte M. Yonge’s =Young Folks’ Histories=, $1.50 a
volume:

Young Folks’ History of Germany.
Young Folks’ History of Greece.
Young Folks’ History of Rome.
Young Folks’ History of England.
Young Folks’ History of France.
Young Folks’ Bible History.

V. =Lothrop’s Library of Entertaining History.= Edited by
Arthur Gilman, M. A. Each volume has one hundred illustrations.
These histories are designed to furnish in a succinct but
interesting form, such descriptions of the lands treated as
shall meet the wants of those busy readers who cannot devote
themselves to the study of detailed and elaborate works, but
who wish to be well-informed in historical matters. $1.50 per
volume.

_America_, by Arthur Gilman, M. A.; _India_, by Fannie Roper
Feudge; _Egypt_, by Mrs. Clara Erskine Clement; _Spain_, by
Prof. James Albert Harrison; _Switzerland_, by Miss Harriet D.
S. Mackenzie.

VI. =Popular Biographies=, of great and good men, whose efforts
and accomplishments cannot fail of helpful suggestions to young
people. Each volume illustrated. Price $1.50.

Abraham Lincoln.
Horace Greeley.
Henry Wilson.
Bayard Taylor.
Henry W. Longfellow.
Washington.
Daniel Webster.
Charles Sumner.
James A. Garfield.
George Peabody.
Charles Dickens.
William the Silent.
Benjamin Franklin.
Amos Lawrence.
Israel Putnam.
John G. Whittier.
David Livingstone.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The above books sent, post-paid on receipt of price. Send for
full catalogue of more than a thousand volumes, including many
volumes of story, biography, travel and adventure equally
desirable with the above for neighborhood clubs and reading
circles.

D. LOTHROP & CO., Publishers, Boston.

A BOY’S WORKSHOP

WITH PLANS AND DESIGNS

FOR IN-DOOR AND OUT-DOOR WORK

BY
A BOY AND HIS FRIENDS

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

HENRY RANDALL WAITE

BOSTON
D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY
FRANKLIN AND HAWLEY STREETS

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