“It tells how to play all sorts of games with marbles, how to make and spin more kinds of tops than most boys ever heard of, how to make the latest things in plain and fancy kites, where to dig bait and how to fish, all about boats and sailing, and a host of other things which can be done outdoors. The volume is profusely illustrated and will be an unmixed delight to any boy.”--New York _Tribune_. [Illustration] =SUMMARY OF CONTENTS= Marbles--Tops--Latest Things in Kites--Aerial Fish and Dragons--Hoops and Wheels--How to Make the Sucker--Up in the Air on Stilts--Bait, Live and Dead--Fishing--Aquatic Sports--Rigs of All Kinds for Small Boats--Shells and Canoes--Hints for Collectors--Honey-Bee Messengers--A “Zoo”--Choosing Up and “It”--Counting Out Rhymes--Swimming--Games of Tag--I Spy--Leap Frog--Various Sports for Hot Days--Tip Cat--Games of Ball--Mumbly Peg, Hop-Scotch, and Jack Stones--Hints for Bicyclists--Camping Out--Boy’s Ballista--“Tally-ho!” and Other Cries--Indian Games for Boys--Football--Golf, Hockey, and Shinny--Turtle Hunting--Skating--Stunning Muskrats and Fish--Snowball Battle and Snow Tag--Sleds. From CHARLES DANA GIBSON: “It makes a man of a boy and a boy of a man.” “This book is praiseworthy from end to end, and will find favor even with those who have long since passed to man’s estate.”--_The Nation._ “It is one of the completest things of the kind ever written, and with it one can hardly conceive how a boy could be without pleasant and profitable amusement at any time. It treats of directions for every season of the year, in and out of doors, and on land and water. One of the best things about it is that it furnishes employment for a boy’s ingenuity and mechanical skill. It seems as if this book must be destined to an immense popularity.”--_The Advance._ * * * * * =THE AMERICAN BOY’S HANDY BOOK= =Or, What To Do and How To Do It= =By DANIEL C. BEARD= =One volume, 8vo, fully Illustrated by the Author, $2.00= Mr. Beard’s book tells 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. [Illustration] =SUMMARY OF CONTENTS=