The Famous Alger Stories for Boys
Give your boy all he wants of the Alger Books. They are always unusually interesting, and in a quiet way convey lessons of pluck, perseverance, and manly independence.
THIS IS ONE VOLUME OF THE SERIES
The following books are ready for delivery:
- 1. Strong and Steady
- 2. Strive and Succeed
- 3. Try and Trust
- 4. Bound to Rise
- 5. Risen From the Ranks
- 6. Herbert Carter’s Legacy
- 7. Brave and Bold
- 8. Jack’s Ward
- 9. Shifting for Himself
- 10. Wait and Hope
- 11. Paul the Peddler
- 12. Phil the Fiddler
- 13. Slow and Sure
- 14. Julius the Street Boy
- 15. Tom the Bootblack
- 16. Struggling Upward
- 17. Facing the World
- 18. The Cash Boy
- 19. Making His Way
- 20. Tony the Tramp
- 21. Joe’s Luck
- 22. Do and Dare
- 23. Only an Irish Boy
- 24. Sink or Swim
The Alger Books have held the foremost place in juvenile fiction for forty years, and they are read to-day with the same avidity as they were a generation ago—and they will continue to be read with equal interest so long as boys are boys.
There are several editions of these stories, but none of them are equal to this new edition from new plates for general excellence, at the lowest price for which a well-made cloth bound book has ever been offered by any publisher.
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Transcriber’s Note:
Dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings were not changed. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences were added. Missing or unprinted quotation marks were added where appropriate.
The following items were changed:
Two words, missing from a damaged page, were added based on comparison of surrounding text from a 1900 edition of the book on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.