With 6 page Illustrations by SYDNEY COWELL. 3s. 6d.
This story is written from the point of view of an ordinary boy, who
gives an animated account of a young public-schoolboy's life. No moral
is drawn; yet the story indicates a kind of training that goes to
promote veracity, endurance, and enterprise; and of each of several of
the characters it might be truly said, he is worthy to be called, "Every
Inch a Briton".
"In _Every Inch a Briton_ Mr. Meredith Fletcher has scored a
success."--_Manchester Guardian_.
*EDGAR PICKERING*
*In Press-Gang Days.*
With 4 illustrations by W. S. STACEY. 2s. 6d. _New Edition_.
In this story Harry Waring is caught by the Press-gang and carried on
board His Majesty's ship _Sandwich_. He takes part in the mutiny of the
Nore, and shares in some hard fighting on board the _Phoenix_. He is
with Nelson, also, at the storming of Santa Cruz, and the battle of the
Nile.
"It is of Marryat, that friend of our boyhood, we think as we
read this delightful story; for it is not only a story of
adventure, with incidents well-conceived and arranged, but the
characters are interesting and well-distinguished."--_Academy_.
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*FRED SMITH*
*The Boyhood of a Naturalist.*
With 6 page Illustrations. 3s. 6d. _New Edition_.
Few lovers of Nature have given to the world a series of recollections
so entertaining, so vigorous, and so instinct with life as these
delightful reminiscences. The author takes the reader with him in the
rambles in which he spent the happiest hours of his boyhood, a humble
observer of the myriad forms of life in field and copse, by stream and
hedgerow.
"We cannot too highly recommend the book to all
readers."--_Guardian_.
*The World of Animal Life.*
Edited by Fred Smith. Profusely Illustrated with Engravings after F.
SPECHT and other eminent artists. 5s.
The aim of _The World of Animal Life_ is to give in non-scientific
language an account of those inhabitants of the land, sea, and sky with
whose names we are all familiar, but concerning whose manner of life the
majority of us have only the haziest conceptions.
"An admirable volume for the young mind enquiring after
Nature.--_Birmingham Gazette_.
*EDGAR PICKERING*
_An Old-Time Yarn:*_
Adventures in the West Indies and Mexico with Hawkins and Drake.
With 6 page Illustrations by ALFRED PEARSE. 3s. 6d.
The hero sails from Plymouth in the flagship of Master John Hawkins.
Divers are the perils through which he passes. Chief of these are the
destruction of the English ships by the treacherous Spaniards, the fight
round the burning vessels, the journey of the prisoners to the city of
Mexico, the horrors of the Inquisition, and the final escape to England.
"An excellent story of adventure.... The book is thoroughly to
be recommended."--_Guardian_.
*CLIVE PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY*
*Gold, Gold in Cariboo:*
A Story of Adventure in British Columbia.
With 4 Illustrations by G. C. HINDLEY. 1s. 6d. _New Edition_.
Ned Corbett, a young Englishman, and his companion set out with a
pack-train in order to obtain gold on the upper reaches of the Fraser
River. After innumerable adventures, and a life-and-death struggle with
the Arctic weather of that wild region, they find the secret gold-mines
for which they have toilsomely searched.
"It would be difficult to say too much in favour of _Gold, Gold
in Cariboo_. We have seldom read a more exciting tale of wild
mining adventure in a singularly inaccessible country. There is
a capital plot, and the interest is sustained to the last
page."--_The Times_.
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*ROBERT LEIGHTON*
*The Golden Galleon.*
With 6 Illustrations by W. RAINEY, R.I. 3s. _New Edition_.
Gilbert Oglander, and his friend, Timothy Trollope, join in Lord Thomas
Howard's expedition to intercept the Spanish treasure-fleet from the
West Indies, and are on board _The Revenge_ in the memorable fight
between that one little man-of-war and fifty-three great galleons of
Spain. After the battle come storm and shipwreck, and the lads, having
drifted for days, find refuge on board a derelict galleon, whence they
are rescued and brought home to England.
"A well-constructed and lively historical
romance."--_Spectator_.
*S. BARING-GOULD*
*Grettir the Outlaw:*
A Story of Iceland in the days of the Vikings.
With 6 page Illustrations by M. ZENO DIEMER. 3s.
A narrative of adventure of the most romantic kind. No boy will be able
to withstand the magic of such scenes as the fight of Grettir with the
twelve bearserks, the wrestle with Karr the Old in the chamber of the
dead, the combat with the spirit of Glam the thrall, and the defence of
the dying Grettir by his younger brother.
"Has a freshness, a freedom, a sense of sun and wind and the
open air, which make it irresistible."--_National Observer_.
*C. J. CUTCLIFFE HYNE*
*The Captured Cruiser:*
or, Two Years from Land.
With 6 page Illustrations by F. BRANGWYN. 3s. 6d.
The central incidents deal with the capture, during the war between
Chili and Peru, of an armed cruiser. The heroes and their companions
break from prison in Valparaiso, board this warship in the night,
overpower the watch, escape to sea under the fire of the forts, and
finally, after marvellous adventures, lose the cruiser among the
icebergs near Cape Horn.
"The two lads and the two skippers are admirably drawn. Mr. Hyne
has now secured a position in the first rank of writers of
fiction for boys."--_Spectator_.
*Stimson's Reef:*
With 4 page illustrations by W. S. STACEY. 2s. 6d.
This is the extended log of a cutter which sailed from the Clyde to the
Amazon in search of a gold reef. It relates how they discovered the
buccaneer's treasure in the Spanish Main, fought the Indians, turned
aside the river Jamary by blasting, and so laid bare the gold of
Stimson's Reef.
"Few stories come within hailing distance of _Stimson's Reef_ in
startling incidents and hairbreadth escapes. It may almost vie
with Mr. R. L. Stevenson's _Treasure Island_."--_Guardian_.
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[Illustration: _From ONE OF THE FIGHTING SCOUTS_
BY CAPT. F. S. BRERETON. (See page 11)]
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*R. STEAD*
*Grit Will Tell:*
The Adventures of a Barge-boy.
With 4 Illustrations by D. CARLETON SMYTH. Cloth, 2s. 6d.
A lad whose name has been lost amidst early buffetings by hard fortune
suffers many hardships at the hands of a bargeman, his master, and runs
away. The various adventures and experiences with which he meets on the
road to success, the bear-hunt in which he takes part, and the battle at
which he acts as war correspondent, form a story of absorbing interest
and after a boy's own heart.
"A thoroughly wholesome and attractive book."--_Graphic_.
*HARRY COLLINGWOOD*
*The Pirate Island.*
With 6 page Illustrations by C. J. STANILAND and J. R. WELLS. 3s. _New
Edition_.
By a deed of true gallantry the hero's whole destiny is charmed, and,
going to sea, he forms one of a party who, after being burned out of
their ship in the South Pacific, are picked up by a pirate brig and
taken to the "Pirate Island". After many thrilling adventures, they
ultimately succeed in effecting their escape.
"A capital story of the sea; indeed in our opinion the author is
superior in some respects as a marine novelist to the
better-known Mr. Clark Russell."--_Times_.
*FLORENCE COOMBE*
*Boys of the Priory School.*
With 4 page Illustrations by HAROLD COPPING. 2s. 6d.
The interest centres in the relations of Raymond and Hal Wentworth, and
the process by which Raymond, the hero of the school, learns that in the
person of his ridiculed cousin there beats a heart more heroic than his
own.
"It is an excellent work of its class, cleverly illustrated with
'real boys' by Mr. Harold Copping."--_Literature_.
*JOHN C. HUTCHESON*
*Afloat at Last:*