Synopses & Reviews
Text extracted from opening pages of book: A BOY'S TOWN DESCRIBED FOB HAKEEB'S YOUNG PEOPLE W. B, 110WELLS AUTHOR 03P THK 8KAOW 0 P A DltKAH*' APRIL HOPES A HAJSABD OS 1 NKW JWl'UNKS KTO. ILLUSTRATED W YORK HARPER A BROTHERS, FEANKLIN SQUARE DAY U UAK 111* TO MV IM> V WttRltH JIB . 8( t CONTENTS. SHOWS 98 X. IliaiiOAYB ANJ> HOLIDAYS 110 XL MusfiiiiiS AND BLKCTIONS 121 XII. PffiTS 183 XIII. O0N8 AKD GtrNKIKO* . 14.8 XIV. FoiiAOiNO 161 XV. MY BOY . in XVI. OTHEJB, BOYS ., . ., 188 XVII. FANTASIES AND SUPERSTITIONS 197 XVIII. TKH KATUHB o BOYS * . * 205 XIX. Tim TOWN ITSELF 215 XX. TBAXTS AND CHAXtACTBJB *, *, , ... 228 XXI. LAST DATS *, ..... 87 ILLUSTRATIONS. AY HE CAMlfi UP TO MY BOY HE SAT FisiUNO ffiontispiece. TUB FIRST LOCK, ........, Facing p. % THH FASSENGISB IS A ONE-fcBOCHffiB MAI? . 8 *' HUN, & UN t TUB CONSTABLE WILL CATCH YOXJI' 18 *' IIH TOLI> JTIIKMC Tit AT HB HAD QOT TIIHJM KOW'*' 44 THAT nOMOH WAS IIEBERVET) FOll MEN OF T0B KINI> I HAVB MENTIONED '*, ... ** 50 THEN OHB BOY TUT A. GU1P ON HIS SHOUL xB%. 74 ** A CITlZlfiK'S CHAitACTBK FOB OLBYBKISfBSS OR HEANNKB8 WA8 FIXBD BY HIS' WAX. K.-INQ BOUNX> OK OVEJ* TJIU BIKCtS, ., 8S K1T1B TIMB 93 XN THE RTKO, ** 100 ** THE BOYS BEGAK TO CBkEBRATK IT WITH ODNB AND PISTOLS'* 110 THIS BUTLHB QVABDB * 12$ PIETfiU ** 144 ** AI X. AT ONOm THEftK TUB INTOTAWS WBBB *' 150 168 Vi ILLUSTRATIONS. THE BEACON OP DEATH*', Fa& ing p. 180 HE LIVED IN A BELATED LOO CABIN ON TEE EDGE OF A COKN-FIELD * ., 1$ 8 HE WJK3MT HOME WITH MY BOY 0KB MIGHT ABOUT MIDNIGHT *' 194 HE ALWAYS KAN BY THE PLACE AS FAST AS HE COULD 1SS THB AKTIST SEEMED SATISFIED HIMSELF*'-*' SO HE WOtJLD OIVE A BOY A CANE, AND THEN TKLL HIM IT WAS A SNAKE * ... M SS3 MY BOYREMEMBEHB COMING FUOM CINCIN KATI IN THE STAGE SS4 THE TOWN-CEIER * . . ** Sft2 A BOY'S TOWN. EARLIEST . I CALL it a Boy's Town because I wish it to appear to the reader as a town appears to a boy from Ins third to IUH eleventh year, when, he seldom, if ever, catches a glimpse of life much higher than the middle of a man, and hus the most distorted and mistaken views of most things, lie may then indeed look up to the sky, and HOC heaven open, and angelft ascending and descending; but ho