The Young Circus Rider

or, the Mystery of Robert Rudd

(1883)

PREFACE:

As the Pacific Series, just completed, is devoted
to stories of life and adventure on the
Pacific coast, the Atlantic Series, of which the
Young Circus Rider is the initial volume, will
comprise stories located nearer home. The author
will feel at liberty, however, should the exigencies
of the plot require it, to change the scene
temporarily to other parts of the continent. The fascinations which the circus has always
exercised over the minds of young people is so
well known, that the author has felt justified in
selecting the hero of the present story from that
class of public performers who appeal so powerfully
to the imagination of his young readers.
In order to prepare himself for his task, he has
made personal acquaintance with more than one
hero of the ring, and has sought to furnish an inside
view of the life which he describes. He
hopes that the result may prove acceptable to the
juvenile public in whose behalf he is always
glad to labor.

Horatio Alger, Jr., March 13, 1883.

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