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Excerpt from Bobby in Movieland Angeles and its environment, it is but fair to state that with the taking off of shoes and socks the process of disrobing was really far advanced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruc...

Excerpt from Percy Wynn or Making a Boy of Him The author favors in a particular manner that portion of the thirteenth chapter where Martin Peters recalls to mind the catechism class of the preceding day, and thinks this the finest passage in his book. As he has borrowed the substance of this passage from the writings of Father Spee, s.j., a famous Jesuit, poet, and reformer of the sixteenth century, he feels no qualms of modesty in making th...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

About the Book Books about Fairy Tales and Folklore for Juveniles is a very popular genre among adolescents because of the imaginary worlds that these stories portray. Titles in this category include: The Fairy Who Believed in Human Beings, Han's Andersen's Stories, Muriel's Dreamland: A Fairy Tale, Grandmama's nursery stories, Danish fairy tales, Japanese Fairy Tales, Jolly Calle & other Swedish fairy tales, The Russian garland of fairy tales...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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Excerpt from Sunshine and Freckles Mrs. Smith, meantime, hurried into the next room - the other room of a suite of two - where she found the entire Smith family whiling away, according to their several fashions, the time before the evening meal. Mrs. Smith cast a critical and severe eye upon her husband and children. Save for Master Tommy, aged eight, who was taking insolent' liberties with the family cat's unhappy tail, all were in good orde...

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Father Francis J Finn (1859-1928) was an American Jesuit priest who wrote a series of 27 popular novels for young people, with each story conveying an important moral precept. According to the American Catholic Who's Who Fr. Finn is "universally acknoledged the foremost Catholic writer of fiction for young people". His first book Tom Playfair, or Making a Start was published in 1890 and this work appeared in 1916.

Fr. Fin's engaging book entertains readers with a new student, Ethelred, who livens things up at Henryton Boarding Academy. The adventures intertwine a host of Catholic topics and present an entertaining and inspiring vision of childhood. Father Francis Finn, SJ, was an early 20th-century Jesuit priest who wrote delightful children's stories about life in Jesuit boarding schools. Taken from his years of experience teaching Catholic boys, Fathe...

Continuing with the same main characters from Claude Lightfoot, Fr. Finn again paints a vivid picture of the All-American boy in That Football Game: And What Came of It, covering a variety of Catholic topics while also giving a stalwart defense of the game of football. The Catholic Faith is described through everyday life, just the way it should be. Easy to pick up and hard to put down -- this book is a joy to read not only for young people, b...

The story opens upon Claude Lightfoot, a reckless 12 year old boy who constantly acts first and thinks later. After being in clash with some bullies, Claude is obliged to miss his First Communion. In the course of the story, Fr. Finn manages to cover a host of topics, including smoking, drinking, the devil, Confession, Holy Communion, retaining one s Baptismal innocence, the 9 First Fridays, the priesthood, mothers and sisters, truthfulness, l...

Excerpt from Cupid of Campion In which Clarence Esmond places himself in the hands of the Bright-eyed Goddess of Adventure, and entrusted by that Deity to the care of a Butcher's Boy. On morning early in September, the sun was shining brightly upon the village of McGregor. Nestled in a coulee between two hills, one rising squarely and rock-ribbed, lacking only the illusion of windows to give it the appearance of a ruined castle, the other to...

Excerpt from That Office Boy In the outer and inner offices of St. Xavier School all was quiet. Within, Father Carney was looking over the morning paper, without, Michael was sitting before his desk, his head thrown back, his eyes dreamily fixed on the ceiling. It was nine o'clock in the morning, and, to borrow Michael's expression, "there was nothing doing." Twelve hundred children, apportioned, according to sex and different grades of ignor...

Excerpt from Claude Lightfoot: Or How the Problem Was Solved He's lively as a kitten, said Rob Collins. I've been keeping an eye on him ever since the beginning of recess, and I don't think there's a square foot of ground in the {college yard he hasn't passed over. He's tripped up five or six fellows already, and just managed to get off being kicked at least twice. I think, added Rob, solemnly, and bringing into use the latest knowledge he ha...

Excerpt from The Best Foot Forward: And Other Stories Here Tommy Madden burst into a giggle, and several others, suspecting some hidden playfulness in the professor's remarks, smiled amiably. Mr. Roberts' face turned a shade darker, and the fur rows on his brow came out in stronger relief. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reprod...

Excerpt from His Luckiest Year The Saturday late sleep, in fact, has become a tradition. Ten o'clock on that particular day of the week is the hour of rising. The boy therefore - who, it should be said, was an alien on the street, having resided there only a few weeks - did not expect to meet or greet any of his new friends. But he was agreeably disappointed. Miss Alice O'Shea, residing in the neat two-story frame house which faces and block...

Excerpt from Harry Dee: Or Making It Out I hope the reader may not be bored, but I find it necessary to begin my story with a great deal about my insignificant self. I am not the hero, and yet, owing to a strange run of circumstances, am so wrapped up with the characters and events which are to figure in my narrative that I find it impossible to make any sort of a beginning without telling somewhat of my own early history. And, to begin with...