Condemned as a Nihilist Part 45

With 6 page Ill.u.s.trations by J. FINNEMORE, R.I. 3s. 6d.

Two Russian lads are so deeply impressed by reading _Robinson Crusoe_ that they run away from home. They lose their way in a huge trackless forest, and for two years are kept busy hunting for food, fighting against wolves and other enemies, and labouring to increase their comforts, before they are rescued.

"This is a story after a boy's own heart."--_Nottingham Guardian._

MEREDITH FLETCHER

Every Inch a Briton: A School Story. With 6 page Ill.u.s.trations 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 ill.u.s.trations 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 s.h.i.+p _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._

FRED SMITH

The Boyhood of a Naturalist. With 6 page Ill.u.s.trations. 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 Ill.u.s.trated 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 Ill.u.s.trations by ALFRED PEa.r.s.e. 3s. 6d.

The hero sails from Plymouth in the flags.h.i.+p of Master John Hawkins. Divers are the perils through which he pa.s.ses. Chief of these are the destruction of the English s.h.i.+ps 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 Ill.u.s.trations by G. C. HINDLEY. 2s. 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._

ROBERT LEIGHTON

The Golden Galleon. With 6 Ill.u.s.trations by W. RAINEY, R.I. 3s.

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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 s.h.i.+pwreck, 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 Ill.u.s.trations 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 bea.r.s.erks, 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 Ill.u.s.trations 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 wars.h.i.+p 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 Ill.u.s.trations 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 'scapes. It may almost vie with Mr. R. L. Stevenson's _Treasure Island_."--_Guardian._

[Ill.u.s.tration: _From ONE OF THE FIGHTING SCOUTS_ BY CAPT. F. S. BRERETON (See page 11)]