New Stories for Boys
Deering of Deal
By LATTA GRISWOLD. With illustrations by George C. Harper.
This is the kind of a story which keeps boys up late at night to finish. Tony Deering, the hero, is just good enough and just bad enough to appeal to every lad from twelve to twenty—and to make some of the lads’ fathers brighten up a bit, too. Tony goes to Deal School; the reader meets him upon his entrance to the first form and he follows him for three or four years through hazing episodes, football games and other school contests, debates and secret organization fights, forbidden spreads and temporary disgraces, to his graduation as one of the most popular fellows the school has ever produced.
Don’t Give Up the Ship
By C. S. Wood. Frontispiece in colors and half-tone plates by Frank Merrill.
With Perry’s famous victory on Lake Erie as the center of interest Mr. Wood has written a stirring story of the War of 1812. Beginning just before the outbreak of hostilities, he follows the career of a vigorous young fellow who attaches himself to Perry and renders no little service to the government in the campaign. Incidentally a splendid pen picture of the Commander of the Lakes is given. The book is one which should strike home to the hearts of the American youth to-day, one hundred years after the events so vividly described.