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But Mr. Baum’s fascinating story is perhaps fitly balanced by a very different serial contribution:

a series of twelve valuable and important papers, which will attract and satisfy the boys who like to “do things.” The author was for years chief designer of artistic wood- and metal-work for a great manufacturing firm in New York and, in this series, he has for the first time brought together the fruits of his native talents and long experience. The result is a series of papers which cannot fail to please and instruct all lovers of art craft and handicraft; and the excellent artistic illustrations of the things a boy can do and make are accompanied, in every instance, by diagrams and directions so clear and full that they render quite simple and easy tasks which at first sight might seem difficult. Boy readers will be surprised to see what admirable specimens of art and skill can be turned out by any boy, with little effort and at trifling expense; and parents will be sure to welcome this latest and best manual of handicraft for clever youngsters of a mechanical turn of mind. The following partial list includes only a number of the many subjects that will be fully treated in Mr. Adams’s series:

The list of short stories and single contributions already secured for the coming year is far too long to be given in full. But a few titles, selected almost at random, will suffice as specimens and serve to show the rich and rare quality of the miscellaneous contents of the new volume:

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