"We can conceive of few books more useful and interactive to the average boy than this."—Troy Times.
"This is by far the most intelligible, comprehensive and practical boy's book which we have ever seen."—Kingston Freeman.
"When selecting books for a boy it should be remembered that such a one as this tends to make him handy, skillful and self-reliant, and that the boy would probably choose it himself."—Boston Globe.
"Each particular department is minutely illustrated, and the whole is a complete treasury, invaluable not only to the boys themselves, but to parents and guardians who have at heart their happiness and healthful development of mind and muscle."—Pittsburgh Telegraph.
"The boy who has learned to play all the games and make all the toys of which it teaches, has unconsciously exercised the inventive faculty that is in him, has acquired skill with his hands, and has become a good mechanic and an embryo inventor without knowing it."—Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, Publishers,
743 & 745 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
THE BOY'S LIBRARY OF LEGEND AND CHIVALRY.