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Thrilling tale for boys and young men about a ship at sea.

THE BOAT CLUB was written and published more than forty years ago, and was the first juvenile book the author had ever presented to the public. Young people who read it at the age of eighteen have now reached threescore, and those who read it at ten have passed their half-century of life. The electrotype...

In the preparation of this volume, the author has had in his mind the intention to delineate the progress of a boy whose education had been neglected, and whose moral attributes were of the lowest order, from vice and indifference to the development of a high moral and religious principle in the heart, which is the rule and guide of a pure and true life.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. A LIEUTENANT AT EIGHTEEN is the third of the series of The Blue and the Gray – on Land. The stirring events of thirty-four years ago, when the first gun of the Great Rebellion awoke the nation from its slumber...

The second volume of the Woodville Stories contains the experience of Richard Grant, in school and out. We are sorry to say that Richard had become a bad boy, and was in the habit of getting into the most abominable scrapes, some of which are detailed in the first chapters of this book. But he is not...

UP THE RIVER is the sixth and last of The Great Western Series. The events of the story occur on the coast of Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico, and on the Mississippi River. The volume and the series close with the return of the hero, by a route not often taken by tourists, to his home in Michigan. His...