Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Jack of All Trades: New Ideas for American Boys
IT was not the author's original intention to produce a series of boys' books. On the contrary, he expected that his work in this line would begin and end with The American Boy's Handy Book.
The great popularity of that book is a constant source of gratification and pleasure to the author but he was not a little surprised and embarrassed when he discovered that in place of satisfying the lads he had only whetted their appetite for more material in the same line. Letters from boys in many parts of the British Provinces, and from all over the United States, convinced the writer that he had yet work to do for them, and the revised and enlarged edition of The American Boy's Handy Book was issued. After a brief period of time the quaintly worded letters in boyish handwriting began again to increase the mail left at the author's studio, and this time he laid aside his brush and pencil to produce The Outdoor Handy Book.
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