NEW BOOKS FOR BOYS
With illustrations by E. C. Caswell
$1.35$
This is a rousing story of public school life in a big city, a story full of incidents ranging from hotly contested athletic meets—baseball and basketball games—to mysterious secret society initiations.
The principal character is, perhaps, one J. Henley Smollet, whose well-to-do father decrees that he shall go to the nearby public school instead of to the aristocratic private institution on which the boy’s heart had been set. There is a good reason for the senior Smollet’s action, as the story shows. Hardly less appealing as a character is Isadore Smollensky, of the East Side, whose first encounter with J. Henley is of a pugilistic nature, but who ultimately becomes his warm friend.
Not only is the story vivid and exciting, but it gives, as well, a mighty good idea of the democratizing process going on in our public schools of to-day.
Under Orders: The Story of Tim and “The Club.”
By HAROLD S. LATHAM
Illustrated by E. C. Caswell
$1.35
This is a book that belongs decidedly to the American boy of the present day. It is the story of Tim Scarsboro, a happy-go-lucky, lovable lad who finds an outlet for his boundless energy in the Pettibone Boys’ Club.
How Tim and the other boys of this club go camping, get up a minstrel, sell Thrift Stamps and do other patriotic work, as well as have a “grand, glorious time” on numerous occasions is described in a series of interesting chanters, culminating in a scene of such life and spirit as will appeal to any American lad.
Incidentally, in Under Orders, the boys’ club movement gets some of the credit that is due it for the good that it is doing in building up the ideals of American youth.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers64-66 Fifth AvenueNew York
