Keeping His Course

The Yardley Hall Series #7

by Ralph Henry Barbour, Walt Louderback (Illustrator)

"Loads of excitement and adventure, with business and baseball mixed in. A corking story of how a boy makes enough money to enter Yardley Hall."

285 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1918

About the author

Ralph Henry Barbour (1870 - 1944) was an American novelist who wrote popular works of sports fiction for boys, creating highly readable and idealistic stories that taught about the importance of sports, teamwork, and school spirit. Over his career, Barbour produced more than 100 novels as well as a number of short stories.

He was the winner, along with George Randolph Osborne, of Life Magazine’s Shortest Story Contest, which culminated with a publication of these works in 1916.