By Conduct and Courage Part 50

"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. 2_s._ 6_d._ _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 _Phnix_. 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. 3_s._ 6_d._ _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. 5_s._

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_.

J. CHALMERS

Fighting the Matabele: A story of Adventure in Rhodesia. Ill.u.s.trated by STANLEY L. WOOD. 3_s._ _New Edition._

A story of the great Matabele rising in 1896. The hero and his friends are surprised by the revolted natives in the heart of the Matopo mountains, and after many stirring adventures make their way back to Buluwayo. The hero subsequently joins the Africander Corps, and distinguishes himself in the operations by which the insurrection is crushed.

"The stormy times of the recent insurrection in Matabeleland are described with a piquantness which will ensure the book becoming a favourite."-_Liverpool Courier_.

CLIVE PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY

Gold, Gold in Cariboo: A Story of Adventure in British Columbia. With 4 Ill.u.s.trations by G. C. HINDLEY. 2_s._ 6_d._ _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 Wreck of the Golden Fleece. Ill.u.s.trated by FRANK BRANGWYN. 3_s._ _New Edition._

The hero is apprenticed on board a Lowestoft fis.h.i.+ng lugger, where he has to suffer many buffets from his s.h.i.+pmates. The storms and dangers which he braved are set forth with intense power. The narrative deals with a highway robbery, the trial of the accused fisherman, his escape, and the mad chase after the criminal out upon the high seas.

"Excellent in every respect, it contains every variety of incident. The plot is very cleverly devised, and the types of the North Sea sailors are capital."-_The Times_.

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. 3_s._

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. 3_s._ 6_d._

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. 2_s._ 6_d._

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 IN THE GRIP OF THE MULLAH_ BY CAPT. F. S. BRERETON (See page 10)]

[Ill.u.s.tration: _From THE DISPUTED V.C._ BY FREDERICK P. GIBBON (See page 15)]

PAUL DANBY

The Red Army Book. With many Ill.u.s.trations in colour and in black-and-white. 6_s._

This book includes chapters on the various branches of the regular army, and also on such attractive subjects as "Boys who have won the V.C.", "Pets of the Regiment", "The Colours", "Famous War Horses", &c. Each chapter, besides dealing generally with its subject, is full of capital anecdotes, and the book as a whole is excellently ill.u.s.trated with colour and black-and-white ill.u.s.trations.

"Every boy would glory in the keeping and reading of such a prize."-_Daily Telegraph_.

FREDERICK P. GIBBON

The Disputed V.C. Ill.u.s.trated by STANLEY L. WOOD. 5_s._

"A tale of the Great Mutiny which should stir a boy's blood, and will tell him all he cares to know of that memorable death-struggle for our supremacy.... Even Lord Roberts scarcely gives a more spirited account of the defence of Delhi, of the difficulties to be overcome, and of the good service of the gallant little army which so long held stubbornly to the Ridge."-_Times_.