By JOSEPH GOLLOMB
With illustrations by E. C. Caswell
$1.35
This is a rousing story of public school life in a big city, a story full of incidents ranging from hotly contested athletic meets—baseball and basketball games—to mysterious secret society initiations.
The principal character is, perhaps, one J. Henley Smollet, whose well-to-do father decrees that he shall go to the nearby public school instead of to the aristocratic private institution on which the boy’s heart had been set. There is a good reason for the senior Smollet’s action, as the story shows. Hardly less appealing as a character is Isadore Smollensky, of the East Side, whose first encounter with J. Henley is of a pugilistic nature, but who ultimately becomes his warm friend.
Not only is the story vivid and exciting, but it gives, as well, a mighty good idea of the democratizing process going on in our public schools of to-day.
Under Orders: The Story of Tim and “The Club.”
By HAROLD S. LATHAM
Illustrated by E. C. Caswell
$1.35