“Oh, I guess it comes natural,” answered the author. “I have been through so much and seen so much, it seems as if I could go on telling stories forever.” On the following pages we give the outlines of some of Mr. Webster’s stories. Read them--they will interest you. THE BOY FROM THE RANCH Did you ever stop to think how strange life in a big city must appear to a boy who has never been anywhere but on the boundless plains? “I simply had to write that story--I couldn’t help it,” said Mr. Webster, in telling us how “The Boy from the Ranch; or, Roy Bradner’s City Experiences,” came to be penned. “Some years ago I was on a ranch, and there I met a lad just like Roy, who told me of all the things that had happened to him when he went to Chicago for his uncle on business.” In this story of life on the plains and in New York, Roy is a clever lad who knows how to take his own part, no matter what happens. His father being sick, he is sent to the great metropolis to transact some business. Everything is new and strange to him and he makes some queer mistakes which make very funny reading. He falls into the hands of a sharper who has been cheating Mr. Bradner out of the income of some valuable property. The sharper and his tools try to get the ranch boy out of the way. But--well, Roy turns the tables, and makes things mighty warm for the fellows. A splendid volume, bound in cloth, and well illustrated. Published by the Cupples & Leon Company, at thirty-five cents. Sent postpaid if you can not get it from your bookseller. THE YOUNG TREASURE HUNTER Do you like stories of the frozen north? of great hardships amid ice and snow? and of thrilling encounters with wild beasts and with thieving Indians? If you do you will not want to miss Frank V. Webster’s book entitled: “The Young Treasure Hunter; or, Fred Stanley’s Trip to Alaska.” “The most interesting story of the Alaskan gold fields I ever read,” one boy has written to us. “My father was one of the first men to go to Alaska, and he says the pictures of life there are true. I guess Mr. Webster must have been there himself.” This story tells of how a poor boy joined a party in search of a golden treasure, and of how, after the treasure was discovered, a bad man, aided by some Alaskan Indians, tried to get the wealth away. Fred proved himself a hero on more than one occasion, and we know all boys will like him for that. On one occasion the youth brings down a fine moose, and on another he and his chum suffer from snow blindness and become lost in the dazzling whiteness. This book might easily have been issued at one dollar or one dollar and a half, but Mr. Webster insisted that the price be made the same as on all his other volumes, namely, thirty-five cents. Issued by the Cupples & Leon Company, New York, and for sale by booksellers everywhere. BOB THE CASTAWAY One day Mr. Webster came into our office and placed a manuscript on the desk of our editor.