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AMERICAN BOYS’ SERIES

The books selected for this series are all thoroughly American, by such favorite American authors of boys’ books as Oliver Optic, Elijah Kellogg, Prof. James de Mille, and others, now made for the first time at a largely reduced price, in order to bring them within the reach of all. Each volume complete in itself.

Uniform Cloth Binding Illustrated New and Attractive Dies Price per volume $1.00

Adrift in the Ice Fields By Capt. Chas. W. Hall

All Aboard or Life on the Lake By Oliver Optic

Ark of Elm Island By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Arthur Brown the Young Captain By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Boat Club, The, or the Bunkers of Rippleton By Oliver Optic

Boy Farmers of Elm Island, The By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Boys of Grand Pré School By Prof. James de Mille

“B. O. W. C.” The By Prof. James de Mille

Brought to the Front or the Young Defenders By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Burying the Hatchet or the Young Brave of the Delawares By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Cast Away in the Cold By Dr. Isaac I. Hayes

Charlie Bell the Waif of Elm Island By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Child of The Island Glen By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Crossing the Quicksands By Samuel W. Cozzens

Cruise of the Casco By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Fire in the Woods By Prof. James de Mille

Fisher Boys of Pleasant Cove By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Forest Glen or the Mohawk’s Friendship By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Good Old Times By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Hardscrabble of Elm Island By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Haste or Waste or the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain By Oliver Optic

Hope and Have By Oliver Optic

In School and Out or the Conquest of Richard Grant By Oliver Optic

John Godsoe’s Legacy By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Just His Luck By Oliver Optic

Lion Ben of Elm Island By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Little by Little or the Cruise of the Flyaway By Oliver Optic

Live Oak Boys or the Adventures of Richard Constable Afloat and Ashore By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Lost in the Fog By Prof. James de Mille

Mission of Black Rifle or On the Trail By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Now or Never or the Adventures of Bobby Bright By Oliver Optic

Poor and Proud or the Fortunes or Kate Redburn By Oliver Optic

Rich and Humble or the Mission of Bertha Grant By Oliver Optic

Sophomores of Radcliffe or James Trafton and His Boston Friends By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Sowed by the Wind or the Poor Boy’s Fortune By Rev Elijah Kellogg

Spark of Genius or the College Life of James Trafton By Elijah Kellogg

Stout Heart or the Student from Over the Sea By Rev Elijah Kellogg

Strong Arm and a Mother’s Blessing By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Treasure of the Sea By Prof. James de Mille

Try Again or the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West By Oliver Optic

Turning of the Tide or Radcliffe Rich and his Patients By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Unseen Hand or James Renfew and His Boy Helpers By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Watch and Wait or the Young Fugitives By Oliver Optic

Whispering Pine or the Graduates of Radcliffe By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Winning His Spurs or Henry Morton’s First Trial By Rev Elijah Kellogg

Wolf Run or the Boys of the Wilderness By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Work and Win or Noddy Newman on a Cruise By Oliver Optic

Young Deliverers of Pleasant Cove By Rev. Elijah Kellogg

Young Shipbuilders of Elm Island By Rev. Elijah Kellogg.

Young Trail Hunters By Samuel W. Cozzens

ADDED IN 1900

In 1899 we increased this immensely popular series of choice copyrighted books by representative American writers for the young to fifty titles. In 1900 we added the ten following well-known books, making an important addition to an already strong list:

Field and Forest or The Fortunes of a Farmer By Oliver Optic

Outward Bound or Young America Afloat By Oliver Optic

The Soldier Boy or Tom Somers in the Army By Oliver Optic

The Starry Flag or The Young Fisherman of Cape Ann By Oliver Optic

Through by Daylight or The Young Engineer of the Lake Shore Railroad By Oliver Optic

Cruises with Captain Bob around the Kitchen Fire By B. P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington)

The Double-Runner Club or The Lively Boys of Rivertown By B. P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington)

Ike Partington and His Friends or The Humors of a Human Boy By B. P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington)

Locke Amsden the Schoolmaster By Judge D. P. Thompson

The Rangers By Judge D. P. Thompson

ADDED IN 1901

This year we still further increase this list, which has become standard throughout the country, by adding the ever-popular “Green Mountain Boys” and four volumes of “Oliver Optic,” “All Over the World Library,” especially timely books in view of the present interest in Asiatic matters.

The Green Mountain Boys By Judge D. P. Thompson

A Missing Million or The Adventures of Louis Belgrave By Oliver Optic

A Millionaire at Sixteen or The Cruise of the “Guardian Mother” By Oliver Optic

A Young Knight Errant or Cruising in the West Indies By Oliver Optic

Strange Sights Abroad or Adventures in European Waters By Oliver Optic

Lee and Shepard Publishers Boston

THE LAKE SHORE SERIES.

THROUGH BY DAYLIGHT; OR, THE YOUNG ENGINEER OF THE LAKE SHORE RAILROAD.

BY

OLIVER OPTIC

Author of “Army and Navy Stories,” “Great Western Series,” “Onward and Upward Stories,” “Woodville Stories,” Famous “Boat-Club Series,” “The Starry-Flag Series,” “Young America Abroad,” “Lake-Shore Series,” “Riverdale Storybook,” “Yacht-Club Series,” and “The Boat-Builder Series.”

BOSTON

LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

WILLIAM T. ADAMS,

In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court

of the District of Massachusetts.

Copyright, 1897, by Alice Adams Russell.

All Rights Reserved.

Through by Daylight.

TO

My Young Friend,

JAMES ELLIOT BAKER,

This Book

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.