This is the age of electricity. The most fascinating of all books for a boy must, therefore, be one dealing with the mystery of this ancient force and modern wonder. The best qualified of experts to instruct boys has in a book far superior to any other of its kind told not only how to MAKE all kinds of motors, telegraphs, telephones, batteries, etc., but how these appliances are used in the great industrial world. “Of all books recently published on practical electricity for the youthful electricians, it is doubtful if there is even one among them that is more suited to this field. This work is recommended to every one interested in electricity and the making of electrical appliances.” _Popular Electricity and Modern Mechanics._ “This is an admirably complete and explicit handbook for boys who fall under the spell of experimenting and “tinkering” with electrical apparatus. Simple explanations of the principles involved make the operation readily understandable.” _Boston Transcript._ “Any boy who studies this book, and applies himself to the making and operating of the simple apparatus therein depicted, will be usefully and happily employed. He will, furthermore, be developing into a useful citizen. For this reason we recommend it as an excellent gift for all boys with energy, application, and ambition.” _Electrical Record, N. Y. City._ “A book to delight the hearts of ten thousand—perhaps fifty thousand—American boys who are interested in wireless telegraphy and that sort of thing. Any boy who has even a slight interest in things electrical, will kindle with enthusiasm at sight of this book.” _Chicago News._ _For sale by all booksellers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers_ LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON THE HANDY BOY A Modern Handy Book of Practical and Profitable Pastimes By A. NEELY HALL Author of “The Boy Craftsman” and “Handicraft for Handy Boys” With nearly 600 illustrations and working drawings by the Author and Norman P. Hall 8vo Cloth Price, Net, $1.60 Postpaid, $1.82 [Illustration: book] A handy boy becomes a handy man—a skilled mechanic, a practical business man, a thorough, accurate worker. That is why it is so important to encourage the boy to become handy. “The Handy Boy” has been written with a view to instructing the boy in the ways of doing things handily, by applying handy methods to the making and doing of hundreds of worth-while things in which he is intensely interested. Such instruction as it contains can be put to immediate use; and this naturally appeals to the boy’s sense of the practical and is of infinitely more value to him than instruction which cannot possibly be of any use for years to come, because knowledge once applied is not easily forgotten.