Pearl Of Pearl Island Part 46

WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

Hearts in Exile._

"Exceptionally powerful, vivid, and realistic.... Sketched with a generous hand and bold touches, the characters hold trie reader's sympathies throughout. The most graphic, vigorous, and lifelike presentment of Russian administrative barbarity which we recollect to have ever come across."--_Daily Telegraph_.

A Princess of Vascovy.

"Mr. Oxenham tells a good exciting story with great swing and zest. It seems almost unnecessary to recommend a story that is in every way worthy of the pen that produced 'Barbe of Grand Bayou.' 'A Princess of Vascovy' is just as picturesquely romantic and just as full of incident and adventure as Mr. Oxenham's most famous work."--_Athenaum_.

White Fire.

"'White Fire' combines religion and adventure; but the date is modern, and the admirable missionary and his undaunted wife and comrades protect their converts in the South Seas from kidnappers and other pests with the aid of Maxims and Winchester rifles. Mr. John Oxenham has already proved his descriptive and a.n.a.lytic powers, and these strong-hearted champions of morality are not less original than their surroundings are romantic. A tidal wave is among the trials of the hero's constancy. The ill.u.s.trations by Mr. Grenville Manton are good."--_Athenaum_.

Barbe of Grand Bayou.

"There is a fascination about Mr. John Oxenham's books which grows upon one. Barbe is a clean-cut, fine drawn character, human, alive, womanly, real. Her history is so simply related, with such convincing straightforwardness that one is bound to admit it could not have happened otherwise. It had to be. The tribulations of the pair of lovers are delightfully set forth with the art of the true story teller. Quite one of the best books of the winter season; worth buying and reading; not merely ordering from the library."--_Academy_.

Giant Circ.u.mstance.

Ill.u.s.trated by CHARLES HORRELL.

"A hearty and manly book, written in telling style of which Mr.

Oxenham has proved himself a master."--_Times_.

"Told in Mr. Oxenham's usual spirited and vivid style. Those who relish a good story well told will welcome 'Giant Circ.u.mstance,' and will set it on a level with the best of Mr. Oxenham's books."--_British Weekly._

"A good story--should prove popular."--_Athenaeum_.

"Bright, healthy, and interesting, will strengthen his position in the regard of readers who like a good story of the doings of wholesome unexaggerated characters."--_Daily Telegraph_.

Rising Fortunes.

Carette of Sark.

"All who either know the Channel Islands or love a full-blooded, exciting story, should speedily make the acquaintance of Carette."--_Pall Mall Gazette_.

"No one who likes tales of adventure--and who does not--could wish for a better tale than this. It is of Sark, in the beginning of last century, when its people were peaceable and law-abiding, save on the question of 'free trade' and when privateering was a legitimate business; so naturally adventurers were more easily come by than in conventional days like these. The youth who tells the tale, one Philip Carre by name, comes by them all too easily for his liking. He is scarcely out of one peril before he is into another, and quite split-hairbreadth are his escapes from the Terrible Torode of Herm.

And it is all on account of Carette, charming Carette, the pride of the island, and worth many dangers to win."--_Daily Chronicle_.