SCRIBNER'S VOOKS FOT{ THE YOUNG.
A NEW EDITION AT REDUCED PRICE.
THE
AMERICAN BOY'S HANBY BeoK
OR, WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT.
BY DANIEL C. BEARD.
One volume, octavo, fully Illustrated by the Author,
>2.00.
Mr. Beard's book is the first to tell the active, inventive and practical American boy the things he really wants to know, the thousand things he wants to do, and the ten thousand ways in which he can do them, with the helps and ingenious contrivances which every boy can either procure or make. The author divides the book among the sports of the four seasons ; and he has made an almost exhaustive collection of the cleverest modern devices, besides himself inventing an immense number of capital and practical ideas.
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.
Kite Time War Kites Novel Modes of Fishing Home-made Fishing Tackle How to Stock, Make and Keep a Fresh-Water Aquarium How to Stock and Keep a Ma- rine Aquarium Knots, Bends and Hitches Dredge, Tangle and Trawl Fishing Home- made Boats How to Rig and Sail Small Boats How to Camp Out Without a Tent
How to Rear Wild Birds Home-made Hunting Apparatus Traps and Trapping Dogs Practical Taxidermy for Boys Snow H ouses and Statuary Winged Skaters
Winter Fishing Indoor Amusements How to Make a Magic Lantern Puppet Shows Home-made Masquerade and The- atrical Costumes With many other subjects of a kindred nature.
" It is the memory of the longing that used to possess myself and my boy friends of a few years ago for a real practical American boy's book that has induced me to offer this volume. Of course such a book cannot, in the nature of things, be exhaustive, nor is it, indeed, desirable that it should be. Its use and principal purpose are to stimulate the inventive faculties in boys, to bring them face to face with practical emergencies when no book can supply the place of their own common sense and the exercise of personal intelligence and ingenuity." from the Author 1 * Preface. >
"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 musce."Pitts6urfA 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.
