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success with this book is so marked that it may well encourage him to further efforts. The description of mining life in the Far West is true and accurate."—Standard.

Sir Walter's Ward: A Tale of the Crusades. By William Everard. With 6 page Illustrations by Walter Paget. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s. 6d.

"This book will prove a very acceptable present either to boys or girls. Both alike will take an interest in the career of Dodo, in spite of his unheroic name, and follow him through his numerous and exciting adventures."—Academy.

Brother and Sister: Or, The Trials of the Moore Family. By Elizabeth J. Lysaght. With 6 page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3s. 6d.

"A pretty story, and well told. The plot is cleverly constructed, and the moral is excellent."—Athenæum.

The Search for the Talisman: A Story of Labrador. By Henry Frith. With 6 page Illustrations by J. Schönberg. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3s. 6d.

"Mr. Frith's volume will be among those most read and highest valued. The adventures among seals, whales, and icebergs in Labrador will delight many a young reader."—Pall Mall Gazette.

Reefer and Rifleman: A Tale of the Two Services. By J. Percy-Groves, late 27th Inniskillings. With 6 page Illustrations by John Schönberg. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3s. 6d.

"A good, old-fashioned, amphibious story of our fighting with the Frenchmen in the beginning of our century, with a fair sprinkling of fun and frolic."—Times.

BY CAROLINE AUSTIN.

Cousin Geoffrey and I. By Caroline Austin. With 6 page Illustrations by W. Parkinson. Cr. 8vo, cloth extra, 3s. 6d.

"Miss Austin's story is bright, clever, and well developed."—Saturday Review.

"A powerfully written and realistic story of girl life.... The tone of the book is pure and good."—Practical Teacher.

 

Hugh Herbert's Inheritance. By Caroline Austin. With 6 page Illustrations by C. T. Garland. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3s. 6d.

"Will please by its simplicity, its tenderness, and its healthy interesting motive. It is admirably written."—Scotsman.

Storied Holidays: A Cycle of Red-letter Days. By E. S. Brooks. With 12 page Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3s. 6d.

"It is a downright good book for a senior boy, and is eminently readable from first to last."—Schoolmaster.

Chivalric Days: Stories of Courtesy and Courage in the Olden Times. By E. S. Brooks. With 20 Illustrations by Gordon Browne and other Artists. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s. 6d.

"We have seldom come across a prettier collection of tales. These charming stories of boys and girls of olden days are no mere fictitious or imaginary sketches, but are real and actual records of their sayings and doings."—Literary World.

 

Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, their Achievements, and their Times. By E. S. Brooks. With 12 page Illustrations by R. B. Birch and John Schönberg. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s. 6d.

"A wholesome book, manly in tone, its character sketches enlivened by brisk dialogue and high-class illustrations; altogether one that should incite boys to further acquaintance with those rulers of men whose careers are narrated. We advise teachers to put it on their list of prizes."—Knowledge.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys: A Tale of Weston School. By Lewis Hough. With 6 page Pictures. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s. 6d.

"Young people who appreciate Tom Brown's School-days will find this story a worthy companion to that fascinating book. There is the same manliness of tone, truthfulness of outline, avoidance of exaggeration and caricature, and healthy morality as characterized the masterpiece of Mr. Hughes."—Newcastle Journal.

The Bubbling Teapot. A Wonder Story. By Mrs. L. W. Champney. With 12 page Pictures by Walter Satterlee. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s. 6d.

"Very literally a 'wonder story,' and a wild and fanciful one. Nevertheless it is made realistic enough, and there is a good deal of information to be gained from it. The steam from the magic teapot bubbles up into a girl, and the little girl, when the fancy takes her, can cry herself back into a teapot. Transformed and enchanted she makes the tour of the globe."—The Times.

BY JENNETT HUMPHREYS.

Laugh and Learn: The Easiest Book of Nursery Lessons and Nursery Games. By Jennett Humphreys. Profusely Illustrated. Square 8vo, cloth extra, 3s. 6d.

"Laugh and Learn instructs and amuses; it is the very book for a wet day in the nursery, for besides solid instruction, admirably given, it contains numberless games and contrivances, with useful and amusing illustrations. The musical drill is remarkably good."—Athenæum.

"One of the best books of the kind imaginable, full of practical teaching in word and picture, and helping the little ones pleasantly along a right royal road to learning."—Graphic.

"Every mother of children should have Laugh and Learn, and go through with them the excellent course it contains."—Journal of Education.

BY MARY C. ROWSELL.

Thorndyke Manor: A Tale of Jacobite Times. By Mary C. Rowsell. With 6 page Illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3s. 6d.

"It is a good story, with plenty of 'go' in it."—Times.

"Miss Rowsell has never written a more attractive book than Thorndyke Manor."—Belfast News-Letter.

 

Traitor or Patriot? A Tale of the Rye-House Plot. By Mary C. Rowsell. With 6 page Pictures by C. O. Murray and C. J. Staniland, r.i. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3s. 6d.

"Here the Rye-House Plot serves as the groundwork for a romantic love episode, whose true characters are lifelike beings, not dry sticks as in many historical tales."—Graphic.

Dora: Or, A Girl without a Home. By Mrs. R. H. Read. With 6 page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3s. 6d.

"It is no slight thing, in an age of rubbish, to get a story so pure and healthy as this."—The Academy.

Life's Daily Ministry: A Story of Everyday Service for Others. By Mrs. E. R. Pitman. With 4 page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s. 6d.

"Shows exquisite touches of a master hand. She depicts in graphic outline the characteristics of the beautiful and the good in life."—Christian Union.

 

My Governess Life: Or, Earning my Living. By Mrs. E. R. Pitman. With 4 page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s. 6d.

"Full of sound teaching and bright examples of character."—S.S. Chronicle.

BLACKIE'S NEW THREE-SHILLING SERIES. Beautifully Illustrated and Handsomely Bound. NEW VOLUMES.

Menhardoc: A Story of Cornish Nets and Mines. By G. Manville Fenn. With 6 page Illustrations by C. J. Staniland, r.i. New Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s.

"They are real living boys, with their virtues and faults. The Cornish fishermen are drawn from life, they are racy of the soil, salt with the sea-water, and they stand out from the pages in their jerseys and sea-boots all sprinkled with silvery pilchard scales."—Spectator.

 

Yussuff the Guide: Or, The Mountain Bandits. A Story of Strange Adventure in Asia Minor. By G. Manville Fenn. With 6 page Illustrations by J. Schönberg. New Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s.

"This story is told with such real freshness and vigour that the reader feels he is actually one of the party, sharing in the fun and facing the dangers with them."—Pall Mall Gazette.

 

Robinson Crusoe. With 100 Illustrations by Gordon Browne. New Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s.

"One of the best issues, if not absolutely the best, of Defoe's work which has ever appeared."—The Standard.

 

Gulliver's Travels. With 100 Illustrations by Gordon Browne. New Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s.

"Mr. Gordon Browne is, to my thinking, incomparably the most artistic, spirited, and brilliant of our illustrators of books for boys, and one of the most humorous also, as his illustrations of 'Gulliver' amply testify."—Truth.

Patience Wins: or, War in the Works. By George Manville Fenn. With 6 page Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, cloth extra, 3s.

"Mr. Fenn has never hit upon a happier plan than in writing this story of Yorkshire factory life. The whole book is all aglow with life, the scenes varying continually with kaleidoscopic rapidity."—Pall Mall Gazette.

 

Mother Carey's Chicken: Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle. By G. Manville Fenn. With 6 page Illustrations by A. Forestier. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s.

"Undoubtedly one of the best Mr. Fenn has written. The incidents are of thrilling interest, while the characters are drawn with a care and completeness rarely found in a boys' book. The illustrations are exceptionally good."—Literary World.

 

The Missing Merchantman. By Harry Collingwood. With 6 page Illustrations by W. H. Overend. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s.

"One of the author's best sea stories. The hero is as heroic as any boy could desire, and the ending is extremely happy."—British Weekly.

 

The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba. By Harry Collingwood. With 6 page Illustrations by W. C. Symons. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3s.

"The Rover's Secret is by far the best sea story we have read for years, and is certain to give unalloyed pleasure to boys. The illustrations are fresh and vigorous."—Saturday Review.

 

The Wigwam and the War-path: Stories of the Red Indians. By Ascott R. Hope. With 6 page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3s.

"Is notably good. It gives a very vivid picture of life among the Indians, which will delight the heart of many a schoolboy."—Spectator.

 

Perseverance Island: or, The Robinson Crusoe of the 19th Century. By Douglas Frazar. With 6 page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s.

"This is an interesting story, written with studied simplicity of style, much in Defoe's vein of apparent sincerity and scrupulous veracity; while for practical instruction it is even better than Robinson Crusoe."—Illustrated London News.

 

Girl Neighbours: or, The Old Fashion and the New. By Sarah Tytler. With 6 page Illustrations by C. T. Garland. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3s.

"One of the most effective and quietly humorous of Miss Sarah Tytler's stories Girl Neighbours is very healthy, very agreeable, and very well written."—The Spectator.

BLACKIE'S HALF-CROWN SERIES. Illustrated by eminent Artists. In crown 8vo, cloth elegant.

Nicola: The Career of a Girl Musician. By M. Corbet-Seymour. Illustrated by Gertrude D. Hammond.

"There is a great deal of quiet force and strength about the story, and a kindly and good-hearted spirit pervading the whole which makes it exceedingly pleasant reading. I can thoroughly and heartily recommend Nicola as a present for girls."—Winter's Weekly.

"The moral tone of the story is exceptionally high, and the book would be a boon to a girl who has, or fancies she has, a career before her."—Practical Teacher.

 

A Little Handful. By Harriet J. Scripps. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke.

"A very charming picture of a bright, lovable, mischievous boy, who hails from the New World. Every page will afford extreme pleasure and amusement to all children, and those who love them."—School Guardian.

"He is a real type of a boy, a few of whom we have known, and do know, who, under proper guidance, help to make a nation great."—The Schoolmaster.

 

A Golden Age: A Story of Four Merry Children. By Ismay Thorn. Illustrated by Gordon Browne. New Edition.

"Ismay Thorn has a genuine love for children.... A Golden Age ought to have a place of honour on the nursery shelf."—The Athenæum.

"This 'story of four merry children' is distinguished by its charming realization of the quaintness and oddity and merriness of children, by its romantic, almost sentimental, pathos, and by its crisp, fluent style."—The Academy.

 

A Rough Road: or, How the Boy Made a Man of Himself. By Mrs. G. Linnæus Banks. Illustrated by Alfred Pearse.

"Mrs. Linnæus Banks has not written a better book than A Rough Road."—Spectator.

"Told with much simple force and that charm which belongs to one who has known herself what a rough road is, and how to traverse it."—Winter's Weekly.

 

The Two Dorothys: A Tale for Girls. By Mrs. Herbert Martin. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.

"A book that will not only interest and please all girls, but will also, from its pure but unostentatious teaching, stimulate and encourage to better and higher things, youthful hopes, dreams, and ambitions."—The Lady.

 

Penelope and the Others: A Story of Five Country Children. By Amy Walton. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke.

"This is a charming book for children. Miss Walton proves herself a perfect adept in understanding of school-room joys and sorrows, and her name ought to become a household word amongst our boys and girls."—Christian Leader.

 

A Cruise in Cloudland. By Henry Frith.

"A thoroughly interesting story, especially the part dealing with the siege of Plevna. There is an excellent sketch of General Skobeloff."—St. James's Gazette.

 

Marian and Dorothy. By Annie E. Armstrong.

"This is distinctively a book for girls. It contains a bright wholesome story, with the useful morals of industry and forgiveness of injuries. The book is decidedly to be commended."—Academy.

 

Stimson's Reef: A Tale of Adventure. By C. J. Hyne.

"Few stories come within hailing