A Boy's Workshop: With plans and designs for in-door and out-door work - Harry Craigin - Book

A Boy's Workshop: With plans and designs for in-door and out-door work

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.

Harry Craigin
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Язык

Английский

Год издания

2015-11-13

Темы

Carpentry; Manual training

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