Books and Authors Part 23

A BOOK FOR YOUNG MEN.

XI.

WOMEN OF HISTORY.

By Eminent Writers.

XII.

THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MIND.

By Isaac Watts.

XIII.

TALES OF OLD ENGLISH LIFE; OR, PICTURES OF THE PERIODS.

By W. F. Collier, LL.D.

This elegant and useful Series of Books has been specially prepared for School and College Prizes: they are, however, equally suitable for General Presentation. In selecting the works for this Series, the aim of the publisher has been to produce books of a permanent value, interesting in manner and instructive in matter--books that youth will read eagerly and with profit, and which will be found equally attractive in after life.

NIMMO'S HALF-CROWN REWARD BOOKS.

Extra Foolscap 8vo, cloth elegant, gilt edges, Ill.u.s.trated, price 2s. 6d. each.

I.

Memorable Wars of Scotland.

BY PATRICK FRASER TYTLER, F.R.S.E., Author of 'History of Scotland,' etc.

II.

Seeing the World: A Young Sailors Own Story.

BY CHARLES NORHOFF, Author of 'The Young Man-of-War's Man.'

III.

The Martyr Missionary: Five Years In China.

BY REV. CHARLES P. BUSH, M.A.

IV.

My New Home: A Woman's Diary.

By the Author of 'Win and Wear,' etc.

V.

Home Heroines: Tales For Girls.

BY T. S. ARTHUR, Author of 'Life's Crosses,' 'Orange Blossoms,' etc.

VI.

Lessons from Women's Lives.

BY SARAH J. HALE.

NIMMO'S TWO s.h.i.+LLING REWARD BOOKS.

Foolscap 8vo, Ill.u.s.trated, elegantly bound in cloth extra, bevelled boards, gilt back and side, gilt edges, price 2s. each.

I.

The Far North: Explorations in the Arctic Regions.

BY ELISHA KENT KANE, M.D., Commander second 'Grinnell' Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin.

II.

The Young Men of the Bible: A Series of Papers, Biographical and Suggestive.

BY REV. JOSEPH A. COLLIER.

III.

The Blade and the Ear: A Book for Young Men.

IV.

Monarchs of Ocean: Narratives of Maritime Discovery and Progress.

V.

Life's Crosses, and How to Meet them.

BY T. S. ARTHUR.

Author of 'Anna Lee,' 'Orange Blossoms,' etc.

VI.

A Father's Legacy to his Daughters; etc.

A Book for Young Women.

BY DR. GREGORY.

VII.

Great Men of European History.

BY DAVID PRYDE, M.A.

NIMMO'S EIGHTEENPENNY REWARD BOOKS.

Demy 18mo, Ill.u.s.trated, cloth extra, gilt edges, price 1s. 6d. each.

I.

The Vicar of Wakefield.

Poems and Essays.

II.

aesop's Fables, With Instructive Applications.

III.

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

IV.