BY S. BARING-GOULD
GRETTIR THE OUTLAW
A Story of Iceland. ByS. Baring-Gould. With 10 full-page Illustrations byM. Zeno Diemer, and a Colored Map. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
No boy will be able to withstand the magic of such scenes as the fight of Grettir with twelve bearserks, and the wrestle with Karr the Old in the chamber of the dead.
BY F. FRANKFORT MOORE
HIGHWAYS AND HIGH SEAS
Cyril Harley's Adventures on Both. ByF. Frankfort Moore. With 8 full-page Illustrations byAlfred Pearse. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
The story belongs to a period when highways meant post-chaises, coaches, and highwaymen, and when high seas meant privateers and smugglers.
UNDER HATCHES
Or, Ned Woodthorpe's Adventures. ByF. Frankfort Moore. With 8 full-page Illustrations byA. Forestier. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
In rescuing another lad from drowning, Ned Woodthorpe is taken on board a convict ship. After a series of exciting events the convicts and crew obtain the mastery. Ultimately the ship is recaptured and Ned and his friends escape from their troubles.
BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN
"Mr. Fenn is in the front rank of writers for boys."—Liverpool Mercury.
DICK O' THE FENS
A Romance of the Great East Swamp. ByGeorge Manville Fenn. With 12 full-page Illustrations byFrank Dadd. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
Dick o' the Fens and Tom o' Grimsey are the sons of a squire and a farmer living on the edge of one of the vast fen wastes, and their adventures are of unusual interest. Shooting and fishing experiences are introduced in a manner which should stimulate the faculty of observation, and give a healthy love for country life; while the record of the fen-men's stealthy resistance to the great draining scheme is full of the keenest interest. The ambushes and shots in the mist and dark, the incendiary fires, and the bursting of the sea-wall, are described with Mr. Fenn's wonted skill in the management of mystery.
BROWNSMITH'S BOY
ByGeorge Manville Fenn. With 6 page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
The career of "Brownsmith's Boy" embraces the home adventures of an orphan, who, having formed the acquaintance of an eccentric old gardener, accepts his offer of a home and finds that there is plenty of romance in a garden, and much excitement even in a journey now and then to town. In a half-savage lad he finds a friend who shows his love and fidelity principally by pretending to be an enemy. In "Brownsmith's Boy" there is abundance of excitement and trouble within four walls.
YUSSUF THE GUIDE
Being the Strange Story of Travels in Asia Minor. ByGeorge Manville Fenn. With 8 full-page Illustrations byJohn Schönberg. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
Deals with the stirring incidents in the career of a lad who has been almost given over by the doctors, but who rapidly recovers health and strength in a journey through Asia Minor. The adventures are many, and culminate in the travelers being snowed up for the winter in the mountains, from which they escape while their captors are waiting for the ransom that does not come.
THE GOLDEN MAGNET
A Tale of the Land of the Incas. ByGeorge Manville Fenn. With 12 full-page Pictures byGordon Browne. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
The tale of a romantic lad, who leaves home to seek his fortune in South America by endeavoring to discover some of that treasure which legends declare was ages ago hidden by the Peruvian rulers and priests, to preserve it from the Spanish invaders. He is accompanied by a faithful companion, who does true service, and shows the greatest courage during the strange and exciting adventures which befall them.
BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN
"Mr Manville Fenn may be regarded as the successor in boyhood's affections of Captain Mayne Reid."—Academy.
NAT THE NATURALIST
A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas. ByGeorge Manville Fenn. Illustrated by 8 full-page Pictures byGeorge Browne. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
Nat and his uncle Dick go on a voyage to the remoter islands of the Eastern seas, and their adventures there are told in a truthful and vastly interesting fashion. The descriptions of Mr Ebony, their black comrade, and of the scenes of savage life, are full of genuine humor.
QUICKSILVER
Or, A Boy with no Skid to his Wheel. ByGeorge Manville Fenn. With 10 full-page Illustrations byFrank Dadd. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
Dr. Grayson has a theory that any boy, if rightly trained, can be made into a gentleman and a great man; and in order to confute a friendly objector decides to select from the workhouse a boy to experiment with. He chooses a boy with a bad reputation but with excellent instincts, and adopts him, the story narrating the adventures of the mercurial lad who thus finds himself suddenly lifted several degrees in the social scale. The idea is novel and handled with Mr. Fenn's accustomed cleverness.
DEVON BOYS
A Tale of the North Shore. ByGeorge Manville Fenn. With 12 full-page Illustrations byGordon Browne. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
The adventures of Sep Duncan and his school friends take place in the early part of the Georgian era, during the wars between England and France. The scene is laid on the picturesque rocky coast of North Devon. Fishermen, smugglers, naval officers, and a stern old country surgeon play their parts in the story, which is one of honest adventure, with the mastering of difficulties in a wholesome manly way, mingled with sufficient excitement to satisfy the most exacting reader.
MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKEN
Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle. ByGeorge Manville Fenn. With 8 full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
A stirring story of adventure in the Eastern seas, where a lad shares the perils of his father, the captain of the merchant shipThe Petrel.
"Jules Verne himself never constructed a more marvelous tale. It contains the strongly marked features that are always conspicuous in Mr. Fenn's stories—a racy humor, the manly vigor of his sentiment, and wholesome moral lessons."—Christian Leader.
BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN
"No one can find his way to the hearts of lads more readily than Mr. Fenn."—Nottingham Guardian.
BUNYIP LAND
The Story of a Wild Journey in New Guinea. ByGeorge Manville Fenn. With 6 full-page Illustrations byGordon Browne. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
"Bunyip Land" is the story of an eminent botanist, who ventures into the interior of New Guinea in his search for new plants. Years pass away, and he does not return; and though supposed to be dead, his young wife and son refuse to believe it; and as soon as he is old enough young Joe goes in search of his father, accompanied by Jimmy, a native black. Their adventures are many and exciting, but after numerous perils they discover the lost one, a prisoner among the blacks, and bring him home in triumph.
IN THE KING'S NAME
Or, The Cruise of theKestrel. ByGeorge Manville Fenn. Illustrated by 12 full-page Pictures byGordon Browne. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
"In the King's Name" is a spirited story of the Jacobite times, concerning the adventures of Hilary Leigh, a young naval officer in the preventive service off the coast of Sussex, on board theKestrel. Leigh is taken prisoner by the adherents of the Pretender, amongst whom is an early friend and patron who desires to spare the lad's life, but will not release him. The narrative is full of exciting and often humorous incident.
MENHARDOC
A Story of Cornish Nets and Mines. ByGeorge Manville Fenn. With 6 full-page Illustrations byC. J. Staniland, R.I. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
The scene of this story is laid among the granite piles and tors of Cornwall. Adventures are pretty plentiful, but the story has for its strong base the development of character of the three boys. The sketches of Cornish life and local coloring are based upon experience in the bay, whose fishing village is called here Menhardoc. This is a thoroughly English story of phases of life but little touched upon in boy's literature up to the present time.
PATIENCE WINS
Or, War in the Works. ByGeorge Manville Fenn. With 6 full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
A graphic narrative of factory life in the Black Country. The hero and his three uncles set up "a works," but find that the workmen are determined to have no new-fangled machinery. After a series of narrow escapes and stirring encounters, the workmen by degrees find that no malice is borne against them, and eventually a great business is built up, and its foundation laid on the good will of the men.
BY DR. GORDON STABLES
A NAVAL CADET
A Story of Adventure by Sea. ByGordon Stables, M.D., C.M. Illustrated, crown 8vo, $1.25.
FOR LIFE AND LIBERTY
A Story of Battle by Land and Sea. ByGordon Stables, M.D., C.M. With 8 full-page Illustrations bySidney Paget. 12mo, $1.50.
The story of an English boy who runs from home and joins the southern army in the late Civil War. He is accompanied by his chum, who enters the navy, and their various adventures in the great conflict are set forth with great vigor and are unfailing in interest.
TO GREENLAND AND THE POLE
A Story of Adventure in the Arctic Regions. ByGordon Stables, M.D., C.M. With 8 full-page Illustrations byG. C. Hindley, and a Map. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
The unfailing fascination of Arctic venturing is presented in this story with new vividness. The author is himself an old Arctic voyager, and he deals with deer-hunting in Norway, sealing in the Arctic Seas, bear-stalking on the ice-floes, the hardships of a journey across Greenland, and a successful voyage to the back of the North Pole.
WESTWARD WITH COLUMBUS
ByGordon Stables, M.D., C.M. With 8 full-page Illustrations byAlfred Pearse. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
The hero of this story is Columbus himself. His career is traced from boyhood onward through the many hazardous enterprises in which he was at various times engaged. The narrative deals chiefly, however, with the great naval venture which Columbus conducted across the Atlantic, and which resulted in the discovery of the American continent.
'TWIXT SCHOOL AND COLLEGE
A Tale of Self-reliance. ByGordon Stables, M.D., C.M. With 8 full-page Illustrations byW. Parkinson. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
The hero is presented by his father with an outlying cottage and garden on the farm, and the gift is turned to pleasant account as a place of residence for a whole menagerie of pets dear to the heart of most healthy-minded boys.
STORIES OF ADVENTURE BY SEA AND LAND
WULFRIC THE WEAPON THANE
The Story of the Danish Conquest of East Anglia. ByCharles W. Whistler. With 6 illustrations byW. H. Margetson. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
A tale in which is set forth:—How Wulfric saved the Danish warrior's life; how he fought in the Viking ship; how he was accused falsely; how he joined King Eadmund, as his weapon-thane; how he fought for the king; and how he won the lady Osritha and brought her to his home.
TOMMY THE ADVENTUROUS
The Story of a Brother and Sister. ByS. E. Cartwright. With 3 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
THORNDYKE MANOR
A Tale of Jacobite Times. ByMary C. Rowsell. With 6 full-page Illustrations byL. Leslie Brooke. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
Thorndyke Manor is an old house near the mouth of the Thames which is convenient, on account of its secret vaults and situation, as the basis of operation in a Jacobite conspiracy. Its owner finds himself suddenly involved in the closest meshes of the plot. He is conveyed to the Tower, but his innocence is triumphantly proved by his sister.
TRAITOR OR PATRIOT
A Tale of the Rye House Plot. ByMary C. Rowsell. With 6 full-page Pictures. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
"A romantic love episode, whose true characters are life-like beings, not dry sticks, as in many historical tales."—Graphic.
HAL HUNGERFORD
Or, The Strange Adventures of a Boy Emigrant. ByJ. R. Hutchinson. With 4 full-page Illustrations byStanley Berkeley. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
"There is no question whatever as to the spirited manner in which the story is told; the death of the mate of the smuggler by the teeth of the dog is especially effective."—London Spectator.
SIR WALTER'S WARD
A Tale of the Crusades. ByWilliam Everard. Illustrated byWalter Paget. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
"A highly fascinating work, dealing with a period which is always suggestive of romance and deeds of daring."—Schoolmaster.
COUSIN GEOFFREY AND I
ByCaroline Austin. With 6 full-page Illustrations byW. Parkinson. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
The only daughter of a country gentleman finds herself unprovided for at her father's death, and for some time lives as a dependent. She finally makes a brave attempt to earn her own livelihood, and she succeeds in doing this.
HUGH HERBERT'S INHERITANCE
ByCaroline Austin. With 6 full-page Illustrations byC. T. Garland. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
"A story that teaches patience as well as courage in fighting the battles of life."—Daily Chronicle.
STORIES OF ADVENTURE BY SEA AND LAND
SOU'WESTER AND SWORD
ByHugh St. Leger. With 6 full-page Illustrations byHal Hurst. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
"As racy a tale of life at sea and war adventure as we have met with for some time."—London Athenæum.
WITH THE SEA KINGS
A Story of the Days of Lord Nelson. ByF. H. Winder. With 6 full-page Illustrations byW. S. Stacey. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
An English lad thought to become a Lord High Admiral like his hero, Nelson, so he ran away from home and joined a privateer. After taking part in the capture of a French frigate, he was captured by Corsairs and sold into slavery. He escaped, and his subsequent bravery in a sea fight brought him an interview with Nelson, and promotion.
THE CAPTURED CRUISER
Or, Two Years from Land. ByC. J. Hyne. With 6 full-page Illustrations byF. Brangwyn. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
This realistic story of modern naval warfare deals with the capture, during the recent war between Chili and Peru, of an armed cruiser. The heroes and their companions break from prison in the harbor of Valparaiso, board this warship in the night, overpower the watch, escape to sea, and, after marvelous adventures, lose the cruiser near Cape Horn.
THE LOSS OF JOHN HUMBLE
What Led to It, and what Came of It. ByG. Norway. With 8 full-page Illustrations byJohn Schönberg. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
John Humble, an orphan, is sent to sea with his uncle, the captain of theErl King, but in the course of certain adventures is left behind at Portsmouth. He escapes to a Norwegian vessel, which is driven from her course and wrecked. The survivors experience the miseries of a long sojourn in the Arctic circle, but ultimately they succeed in making their way home again.
HUSSEIN THE HOSTAGE
Or, A Boy's Adventures in Persia. ByG. Norway. With 8 full-page Illustrations byJohn Schönberg. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
A narrative of the adventures of the young Prince Hussein and his faithful follower, Askar, in their endeavor to free their oppressed tribe from the Persian yoke.
A PRISONER OF WAR
A Story of the Time of Napoleon Bonaparte. ByG. Norway. With 6 full-page Illustrations byRobert Barnes, A.R.W.S. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
"More hairbreadth escapes from death by starvation, by ice, by fighting, etc., were never before surmounted."—The Guardian.
A STOUT ENGLISH BOWMAN
Being a Story of Chivalry in the Days of Henry III. ByEdgar Pickering. With 6 Illustrations. Price, $1.25.
IN PRESS-GANG DAYS
ByEdgar Pickering. With 6 full-page Illustrations byW. S. Stacey. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
"It is of Marryat 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."—London Academy.
AN OLD-TIME YARN
Wherein is set forth Divers Desperate Mischances which Befell Anthony Ingram and his shipmates in the West Indies and Mexico with Hawkins and Drake. ByEdgar Pickering. Illustrated with 6 full-page Pictures drawn byAlfred Pearse. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
"Excellent is the description of Mexico and of the dungeons of the Inquisition, while Don Diego Polo is a delightful mixture of bravery and humor, and his rescue of the unfortunate prisoners is told with great spirit."—London Guardian.
SILAS VERNEY
A Tale of the Time of Charles II. ByEdgar Pickering. With 6 full-page Illustrations byAlfred Pearse. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
"Mr. Pickering reels off the narrative with spirit, rather reminding us of Mr. Stevenson in such books as 'Kidnapped.'"—London Times.
AN OCEAN OUTLAW
A Story of Adventure in the good ship Margaret. ByHugh St. Leger. With 6 page illustrations byWm. Rainey, R.I. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
This is a breezy sea-yarn in which the reader is made acquainted with Jimmy Ducks, cabin-boy aboard the good shipMargaret. For little Jimmy is a tip-top sailor-man in the making merry in fair weather, handy in a gale, and a hero at cutlass work, and all his cleverness was needed when he and his messmates came to tackle the Ocean Outlaw and his castaway crew.
GOLD, GOLD, IN CARIBOO
A Story of Adventure in British Columbia. ByClive Phillipps-Wolley. With 6 full-page Illustrations byG. C. Hindley. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
Ned Corbett and his companion, Steve Chance, set out with a pack-train in order to obtain gold on the upper reaches of the Frazer river. Many difficulties lie in their path, but 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 searched.
HIS FIRST KANGAROO
An Australian Story for Boys. ByArthur Ferres. With 6 Illustrations byP. B. S. Spener. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
A CHAMPION OF THE FAITH
A Tale of Prince Hal and the Lollards. ByJ. M. Callwell. With 6 full-page Illustrations byHerbert J. Draper. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
This story deals with the merry escapades of Prince Hal and his favorite. Sir John Oldcastle. Then the narrative deepens when the Prince ascends the throne as Henry V., while his old comrade becomes a Lollard and a champion of the new faith. As such, Sir John Oldcastle endures many hardships, but finally is captured by treachery and burnt at the stake.
THE WIGWAM AND THE WAR-PATH
Stories of the Red Indians. ByAscott R. Hope. Illustrated byGordon Browne. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
"Mr. Hope's 'Wigwam and War-path' is notably good; it gives a very vivid picture of life among the Indians."—Spectator.
THE SEVEN WISE SCHOLARS
ByAscott R. Hope. Illustrated byGordon Browne. Square 8vo, $1.50.
YOUNG TRAVELLERS' TALES
ByAscott R. Hope. With 6 full-page Illustrations byH. J. Draper. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
"Possess a high value for instruction as well as for entertainment. His quiet, level humor bubbles up on every page."—Daily Chronicle.
ROBINSON CRUSOE
New Edition. With 100 Illustrations byGordon Browne. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
New Edition. With 100 Illustrations byGordon Browne. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
SOME STORIES OF ADVENTURE
"HALLOWE'EN" AHOY!
Or, Lost on the Crozet Islands. ByHugh St. Leger. With 6 page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
An exciting story of shipwreck and adventure in the South Atlantic. TheHallowe'enis found a derelict with only a girl on board, and after many experiences it is sailed to England.
REEFER AND RIFLEMAN
A Tale of the Two Services. ByJ. Percy Groves. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
THE SEARCH FOR THE TALISMAN
A Tale of Labrador. ByHenry Frith. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
FAMOUS DISCOVERIES BY SEA AND LAND
Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
STORIES OF THE SEA IN FORMER DAYS
Narratives of Wreck and Rescue. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
FROM THE CLYDE TO THE JORDAN
ByHugh Callan. With 30 Illustrations and a Map. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
An interesting story of a bicycle trip through Europe and Palestine.
UNDER THE BLACK EAGLE
ByAndrew Hilliard. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
The adventures of a young English lad who was imprisoned in Russia and sent to Siberia, from which he escaped across Asia.
JACK O'LANTHORN
A Tale of Adventure. ByHenry Frith. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
THE WAR OF THE AXE
Or, Adventures in South Africa. ByJ. Percy Groves. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
TALES OF CAPTIVITY AND EXILE
ByW. B. Fortescue. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
HISTORICAL STORIES
A THANE OF WESSEX
Being a Story of the Great Viking Raids into Somerset. ByCharles W. Whistler. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
BROTHERS IN ARMS
A Story of the Crusades. ByF. Bayford Harrison. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
TWO GALLANT REBELS
A Story of the Great Struggle of La Vendee. ByEdgar Pickering. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
STORIES OF OLD RENOWN
Tales of Knights and Heroes. ByAscott R. Hope. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
STIRRING EVENTS OF HISTORY
Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
ADVENTURES IN TOYLAND
ByEdith King Hall. With 8 Colored Plates and 72 other Illustrations byAlice B. Woodward. Square 8vo, $2.00.
The story of what a little girl heard and saw in a toy shop.
TO TELL THE KING THE SKY IS FALLING
BySheila E. Braine. With 85 Illustrations byAlice B. Woodward. Square crown 8vo, $1.75.
A most original fairy tale, in which Henny Penny, Ducky Daddles, and other old friends are met.
THE WHISPERING WINDS
And the Tales that they Told. ByMary H. Debenham. With 25 Illustrations byPaul Hardy. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
"We wish the winds would tell us stories like these."—London Academy.
THINGS WILL TAKE A TURN
ByBeatrice Harraden, author of "Ships that Pass in the Night." Illustrated. 12mo, $1.00.
It is the story of a sunny-hearted child, Rosebud, who assists her grandfather in his dusty, second-hand bookshop.
NAUGHTY MISS BUNNY
Her Tricks and Troubles. ByClara Mulholland. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 75 cents.
"This naughty child is positively delightful."—Land and Water.
UNLUCKY
A Fragment of a Girl's Life. ByCaroline Austin. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 75 cents.
A touching story of an unlucky girl at odds with her stepmother.
LAUGH AND LEARN
The Easiest Book of Nursery Lessons and Nursery Games. ByJennett Humphreys. Charmingly Illustrated. Square 8vo, $1.25.
"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.
SOME BOOKS FOR GIRLS
Nell's School Days.A Story of Town and Country. ByH. P. Gethen. With 4 Illustrations. Price, $1.00.
Violet Vereker's Vanity.ByAnnie E. Armstrong. With 6 Illustrations byG. D. Hammond. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
The story of a girl with one weakness, which she finally overcame.
Three Bright Girls.A Story of Chance and Mischance. ByAnnie E. Armstrong. With 6 full-page Illustrations byW. Parkinson. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
"Among many good stories for girls this is undoubtedly one of the very best."—Teachers' Aid.
A Very Odd Girl.Life at the Gabled Farm. ByAnnie E. Armstrong. With 6 full-page Illustrations byS. T. Dadd. Crown $1.25.
"We can heartily recommend the book, for it is not only bright and interesting, but also pure and healthy in tone and teaching."—The Lady.
White Lilac: Or, The Queen of the May. ByAmy Walton. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
By MARGARET PARKER
For the Sake of a Friend.A Story of School Life. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
A bright story of two good girl friends.
A Daughter of Erin.ByViolet G. Finny. With 4 Illustrations. Price, $1.00.
Under False Colors.A Story from Two Girls' Lives. BySarah Doudney. With 6 full-page Illustrations byG. G. Kilburne. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
A story which has in it so strong a dramatic element that it will attract readers of all ages and of either sex. The incidents of the plot, arising from the thoughtless indulgence of a deceptive freak, are exceedingly natural, and the keen interest of the narrative is sustained from beginning to end.
Miss Willowburn's Offer.BySarah Doudney. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
"Sarah Doudney has no superior as a writer of high-toned stories; pure in style, original in conception, and with skilfully wrought-out plots."—Christian Leader.
The Secret of the Old House.A Story for Children. ByEvelyn Everett Green. With 4 full-page Illustrations byL. Leslie Brooke. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
"Tim, the little Jacobite, is a charming creation."—Academy.
By M. CORBET-SEYMOUR
A Girl's Kingdom.Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
Olive and her story will receive welcome from all girls.
Dulcie King: A Story for Girls. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
"An extremely graceful, well-told tale."
A GIRL'S LOYALTY
ByFrances Armstrong. With 8 Illustrations byJohn H. Bacon. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
Helen Grant received from her grandfather on his death-bed a secret message. This influenced her whole life, but she was loyal to her trust and to her friends.
A FAIR CLAIMANT
Being a Story for Girls. ByFrances Armstrong. With 8 full-page Illustrations byGertrude D. Hammond. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
An exciting story of a young girl, the rightful heir to a large fortune, who has been kept out of it, but who most honorably regains it, after much trial and difficulty.
THE CLEVER MISS FOLLETT
ByJ. K. H. Denny. With 12 full-page Illustrations byGertrude D. Hammond. Crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.50.
The story of a great fortune and its attendant train of misfortunes.
THE HEIRESS OF COURTLEROY
ByAnne Beale. With 8 page Illustrations byT. C. H. Castle. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, $1.50.
"Miss Anne Beale relates how the young 'Heiress of Courtleroy' had such good influence over her uncle as to win him from his intensely selfish ways in regard to his tenants and others."—London Guardian.
A TRUE CORNISH MAID
ByG. Norway. With 6 full-page Illustrations byJ. Finnemore. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
A story of the Cornish coast when the press-gang brought terror into all its seaports, and smuggling was an everyday practice. The heroine of the tale is sister to a young fellow who gets into trouble in landing a contraband cargo and shooting the officer in charge of the press-gang.
GIRL NEIGHBORS
Or, The Old Fashion and the New. BySarah Tytler. With 8 full-page Illustrations byC. T. Garland. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
"'Girl Neighbors' is a pleasant comedy, not so much of errors as of prejudices got rid of, very healthy, very agreeable, and very well written."—London Spectator.
By ALICE CORKRAN
Down the Snow Stairs.Or, From Good-night to Good-morning. ByAlice Corkran. With 60 character Illustrations byGordon Browne. Square crown 8vo, olivine edges, $1.25.
"A gem of the first water, bearing upon every one of its pages the signet mark of genius.... All is told with such simplicity and perfect naturalness that the dream appears to be a solid reality. It is indeed a Little Pilgrim's Progress."—Christian Leader.
Margery Merton's Girlhood.ByAlice Corkran. With 6 full-page Illustrations byGordon Browne. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
The experience of an orphan girl who in infancy is left by her father, an officer in India, to the care of an elderly aunt residing near Paris.
Meg's Friend.ByAlice Corkran. With 6 full-page Illustrations byRobert Fowler. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
Meg has been brought up by a woman who abuses the trust. She is removed to a lady's school and is ultimately taken into the house of a mysterious benefactor who proves to be her grandfather. After a long separation she once more meets the friend of her childhood.
Adventures of Mrs. Wishing-to-Be.ByAlice Corkran. With 3 full-page Pictures in colors. Crown 8vo, 75 cents.
A book of charming fairy tales in which Cinderella, Little Bo-Peep, and other old friends appear.
Joan's Adventuresat the North Pole and Elsewhere. ByAlice Corkran. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 75 cents.
A beautiful dream-land story.
By ROSA MULHOLLAND
Banshee Castle.Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
The story of three bright and lively young girls who fall heir to an old castle in the west of Ireland. Their struggles to live in it on little money, and their strange experiences, are deeply interesting.
Four Little Mischiefs.Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 75 cents.
"A charming bright story about real children."—Watchman.
Giannetta.A Girl's Story of Herself. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
"Extremely well told and full of interest."—Academy.
Hetty Gray: Or, Nobody's Bairn. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.00.
"Hetty is a delightful creature, piquant, tender, and true."—London World.
The Late Miss Hollingford.Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 75 cents.
This story was a special favorite of Charles Dickens, and the title was chosen by him.
By MRS. R. H. READ
Dora: Or, A Girl without a Home. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.25.
"It is no slight thing to get a story so pure and healthy as this."—Academy.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
153-157 Fifth Ave.,New York.