On the Plains with Custer / The Western Life and Deeds of the Chief With the Yellow Hair, Under Whom Served Boy Bugler Ned Fletcher, When in the Troublous Years 1866–1876 the Fighting Seventh Cavalry Helped to Win Pioneer Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota for White Civilization and Today's Peace

by Edwin L. Sabin

By PROF. W. O. STEVENS.

This is a rattling good tale of the adventures of a “Plebe” at the United States Naval Academy. The author, through his connection with the Academy, understands thoroughly the intimate life of the middies. He describes vividly the humorous incidents, scrapes and escapades that enliven the duties of these embryo commodores.

Illustrated by Herbert Pullinger. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25, net. Postpaid, $1.37.

THE BOY SCOUTS
OF BIRCH-BARK ISLAND

By RUPERT SARGENT HOLLAND

This book tells the adventures of a troop of twenty-five Boy Scouts who leave New York about the middle of June and camp on an island in the Connecticut River. The Scouts pitch their tents, explore the island, draw maps of what they discover, lay out baseball field, hold water-sports, and go on scouting “hikes” across the island and along the mainland.

With colored frontispiece and five illustrations in black and white by Herbert Pullinger. 12mo. Decorated cloth, $1.25 net. Postpaid, $1.37.

THE LONGSHORE BOYS

By WILLIAM O. STODDARD, Jr.

An unusually fine tale of the adventures of three boys on a cruise on the Great South Bay, on the south side of Long Island. The book will surely appeal to the live boy, and afford him much solid enjoyment.