By CLARENCE JOHNSON MESSER
12mo Cloth Illustrated Price, Net, $1.00 Postpaid, $1.10
This is frankly a book with a purpose, and its purpose is to teach boys the fundamental business customs of every-day life, and at the same time encourage the sound traits of character essential to commercial success and good citizenship. This is done by a good and interesting story of some live boys, whose experiences will hold the attention of every one. The leading spirit is pictured with a healthy boy's human qualities to be trained, and impulses to be overcome. A companionable and sensible father aids him judiciously, and leaves success to be worked out on natural lines. All the stage effects of the cheaper kinds of boys' books are blissfully absent; there are no villains plotting against the upright, no nations saved by the precocious intelligence of youth, and no impossible adventure or accomplishment—just the problems before average boys, and that can be solved as these boys solve them if "Mr. Responsibility" is recognized as a partner in all undertakings, and one learns to see and grasp his opportunities. A book that any boy would like, and that every boy ought to have.
"It is an inspiring book to any boy who wants to learn to be a good business man."—Buffalo News.
"Entertaining, instructive, and just such a book as boys will love."—Portland, Me., Press.
"For the boys still young enough to revel in "juvenile stories" MR. RESPONSIBILITY is about as good as is to be found."—San Francisco Town Talk.
"The story is one that boys will enjoy and that parents can safely put in their hands."—Lowell Courier Citizen.
"A wholesome, informative, worth-while boy's book."—N. Y. Press.
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LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON