Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton

by Oliver Optic

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  Purely American in scene, plot, motives, and characters, the copyrightworks of Edward S. Ellis have been deservedly popular with the youth ofAmerica. In a community where every native-born boy can aspire to thehighest offices, such a book as Ellis' "From the Throttle to thePresident's Chair," detailing the progress of the sturdy son of thepeople from locomotive engineer to the presidency of a great railroad,must always be popular. The youth of the land which boasts of aVanderbilt will ever desire such books, and naturally will desirestories of their native land before wandering over foreign climes.

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