A Tale of the Ashanti War. By G. A. HENTY. With 8 full-page
Illustrations by GORDON BROWNE in black and tint. Crown 8vo, cloth
elegant, 5_s._
The Ashanti Campaign seems but an event of yesterday, but it happened
when the generation now rising up were too young to have made
themselves acquainted with its incidents. The author has woven, in a
tale of thrilling interest, all the details of the campaign, of which
he was himself a witness. His hero, after many exciting adventures in
the interior, finds himself at Coomassie just before the outbreak of
the war, is detained a prisoner by the king, is sent down with the
army which invaded the British Protectorate, escapes, and accompanies
the English expedition on their march to Coomassie.
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this."--_Scotsman._
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good."--_Standard._
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English gentleman."--_Christian Leader._