How many times have you paused to gaze provided you live in a maritime town of course, at Uncle Sam's grim, gray sea-fighters swinging at their anchors, or steaming majestically by? Haven't you thought then that you would like to know something of the lives of the servers of their country who pass the best part of their adventurous lives within those steel walls? There are no books published which will tell you more of the new navy,--of the men, the ships, the huge guns, the submarine auxiliaries and all the hundred and one things that go to make up the fascination of the naval seaman's life, than these volumes. In the first volume of the series which bears the above title Ned Strong and Herc Taylor make their debut in Uncle Sam's navy. Of course they have to endure much rough joking. Ned, however, proves so handy with his fists in a notable set-to with the ship's bully that the boys soon set themselves on a footing. From that moment on adventures come thick and fast. At target practice Herc--by a mean trick of his enemy becomes a living target for a twelve inch gun. A flare-back in the forward turret of the Dreadnought on which they are serving gives the lads their longed-for opportunity to show the stuff they are made of. Real books for real boys. Sold by Booksellers Everywhere. HURST & CO., Publishers NEW YORK. Motor Rangers Series By MARVIN WEST OUTDOOR LIFE STORIES FOR MODERN BOYS Cloth Bound Price, 50¢ per volume. =The Motor Rangers' Lost Mine.= A new series dealing with an idea altogether original in juvenile fiction,--the adventures of a party of bright, enterprising youngsters in a splendid motor car. Their first trip takes them to the dim and mysterious land of Lower California. Naturally, as one would judge from the title, the lost mine, which proves to be Nat Trevor's rightful inheritance,--occupies much of the interest of the book. But the mine was in the possession of enemies so powerful and wealthy that it taxed the boys' resources to the uttermost to overcome them. How they did so makes absorbing reading. In this book also, the young motor rangers solve the mystery of the haunted Mexican cabin, and exterminate for all time a strange terror of the mountains which has almost devastated a part of the peninsula. The Motor Rangers too, have an exciting encounter with Mexican cowboys, which beginning comically, comes very near having a serious termination for all hands. Emphatically "third speed" books. Sold by Booksellers Everywhere. Hurst & Co., Publishers New York The Oakdale Series By Morgan Scott HIGH CLASS COPYRIGHTED STORIES FOR BOYS Cloth Bound. Illustrated. Price, 60¢ a Volume =Ben Stone at Oakdale= BY MORGAN SCOTT 12MO., CLOTH. ILLUSTRATED. PRICE 60¢