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St. Nicholas for 1905
But Mr. Baum’s fascinating story is perhaps fitly balanced by a very different serial contribution:
“THE PRACTICAL BOY”
a series of twelve valuable and important papers, which will attract and satisfy the boys who like to “do things.” The author was for years chief designer of artistic wood- and metal-work for a great manufacturing firm in New York and, in this series, he has for the first time brought together the fruits of his native talents and long experience. The result is a series of papers which cannot fail to please and instruct all lovers of art craft and handicraft; and the excellent artistic illustrations of the things a boy can do and make are accompanied, in every instance, by diagrams and directions so clear and full that they render quite simple and easy tasks which at first sight might seem difficult. Boy readers will be surprised to see what admirable specimens of art and skill can be turned out by any boy, with little effort and at trifling expense; and parents will be sure to welcome this latest and best manual of handicraft for clever youngsters of a mechanical turn of mind. The following partial list includes only a number of the many subjects that will be fully treated in Mr. Adams’s series:
| “A Preliminary Article on “Simple Carpentry and Joining and the Use of Tools.” | “Ice-boars, Skating-sails, Skees, etc.” |
| “A Home-made Gymnasium.” | |
| “Things a Boy can Make for His Mother and Sister and Girl-friends.” | “Boats, Motor-boats, and Canoes.” |
| “Windmills and Power-wheels.” | |
| “How a Boy can Decorate His Own Room.” | “Pet-shelters (Rabbit-hutches, Dove-cotes, etc.)” |
| “Camping Outfits” |
The list of short stories and single contributions already secured for the coming year is far too long to be given in full. But a few titles, selected almost at random, will suffice as specimens and serve to show the rich and rare quality of the miscellaneous contents of the new volume:
“YANKEE DOODLE AND The distinguished Arctic explorer piques the curiosity of young readers in this story of two queer residents of the Arctic regions who bore these patriotic titles.
“AN OFFICER OF THE This is a sequel to the brilliant story, published in St. Nicholas last January, of a bright boy whose only training had been in the slums; and no reader of that story, “An Officer of the Court,” will ever forget the prowess, the human nature, and genuine (even if rather untrained) manliness of little “Jimmy Dandy.” Jimmy’s subsequent adventures and misadventures are recorded in “An Officer of the School.” |
“CHILD-LIFE IN THE The clever young author of “The Helmet of Navarre” has recently returned from a visit to the Orient, and in this entertaining paper proves that she can depict scenes of every-day life as vividly as thrilling incidents of history or romance. The Russo-Japanese war has renewed the interest of the Western world in the wonderful Island-empire of the East, and American young folk will welcome Miss Runkle’s account of the young Japanese.
“THE FIRST is one of the stories with “a delightful surprise at the end,” which, as told by this well-known writer of the Sierras, will be sure to please all readers, young or old. |
