FOLLOWING THE BALL
Here is an up-to-date story presenting American boarding-school life and modern athletics. The scene will readily be recognized as at Exeter. Of course football is an important feature, and in tracing the development of the hero from a green player to an expert it might serve as a guide. Other branches of athletics are also finely dealt with. But it is far more than a football book. It is a story of character formation told in a most wholesome and manly way. In this development athletics play an important part, to be sure, but are only one feature in carrying the hero, “Dick Melvin,” on to a worthy manhood.
“A seasonable school and football story, by a writer who knows the game and knows boys as well. It is of the ‘Tom Brown’ type, an uplifting as well as a lively story.”—Advance, Chicago, Ill.
SECOND VOLUME
MAKING THE NINE
The cordial reception of the great football story, “Following the Ball,” which had the distinction of so fine a spirit in its development of the hero’s school life that not only the boys but their elders were enthusiastic over it, has led to this second book, in which baseball is sufficiently prominent to suggest the title. It is a pleasure for a publisher to present such a book as this, in every way worthy to continue the success of the previous volume. The special points of excellence are that the story is lively and worth telling, and the life presented is that of a real school, interesting, diversified, and full of striking incidents, while the characters are true and consistent types of American boyhood and youth. The athletics are technically correct, abounding in helpful suggestions, soundly and wisely given, and the moral tone is high and set by action rather than preaching.
LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, Boston
TOM WINSTONE, “WIDE AWAKE”
By MARTHA JAMES