BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG AND FOR LENDING LIBRARIES.
Reading edition
LAYS OF MANY LANDS. By a Knight Errant. Illustrated. Crown 8vo.
Pharaoh Land.
Home Land.
Wonder Land.
Rhine Land.
SEEKING HIS FORTUNE, AND OTHER STORIES. Crown 8vo. Four Illustrations. Price 3s. 6d.
Contents.—Seeking his Fortune.—Oluf and Stephanoff.—What’s in a Name?—Contrast.—Onesta.
A series of instructive and interesting stories for children of both sexes, each one enforcing, indirectly, a good moral lesson.
DADDY’S PET. By Mrs. Ellen Ross (Nelsie Brook). Square crown 8vo, uniform with “Lost Gip.” 6 Illustrations.
A pathetic story of lowly life, showing the good influence of home and of child-life upon an uncultivated but true-hearted “navvy.”
THREE WORKS BY MARTHA FARQUHARSON.
Each Story is independent and complete in itself. They are published in uniform size and price, and are elegantly bound and illustrated.
I. ELSIE DINSMORE. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
II. ELSIE’S GIRLHOOD. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
III. ELSIE’S HOLIDAYS AT ROSELANDS. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
The Stories by this author have a very high reputation in America, and of all her books these are the most popular and widely circulated. These are the only English editions sanctioned by the author, who has a direct interest in this English Edition.
LOST GIP. By Hesba Stretton, Author of “Little Meg,” “Alone in London.” Square crown 8vo. Six Illustrations. Price 1s. 6d.
⁂ A HANDSOMELY BOUND EDITION, WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS, PRICE HALF-A-CROWN.
“Thoroughly enlists the sympathies of the reader.”—Church Review.
“Full of tender touches.”—Nonconformist.
“An exquisitely touching little story.”—Church Herald.
THE KING’S SERVANTS. By Hesba Stretton, Author of “Lost Gip.” Square crown 8vo, uniform with “Lost Gip.” 8 Illustrations. Price 1s. 6d.
Part I. —Faithful in Little.
Part II. —Unfaithful.
Part III. —Faithful in Much.
AT SCHOOL WITH AN OLD DRAGOON. By Stephen J. Mac Kenna. Crown 8vo. 5s. With Six Illustrations.
“At Ghuznee Villa.”
Introductory.
Henry and Amy.
A Story of Canterbury.
A Disastrous Trumpet Call.
A Baptism of Fire.
In a Golden Fort.
A Little Game.
True to his Salt.
Mother Moran’s Enemies.
Sooka the Sycee; or, Sea Horses in Reality.
A Baptism of Frost.
Who Shot the Kafirs.
John Chinaman and the Middies.
A Series of Stories of Military and Naval Adventure, related by an old Retired Officer of the Army.
FANTASTIC STORIES. Translated from the German of Richard Leander, by Paulina B. Granville. Crown 8vo. Eight full-page Illustrations.
The Magic Organ.
The Invisible Kingdom.
The Knight who Grew Rusty.
Of the Queen who could not make Gingerbread Nuts, and of the King who could not play the Jew’s Harp.
The Wishing Ring.
The Three Princesses with Hearts of Glass.
The Old Bachelor.
Sepp’s Courtship.
Heino in the Marsh.
Unlucky Dog and Fortune’s Favourite.
The Dreaming Beech.
The Little Hump-Backed Maiden.
Heavenly Music.
The Old Hair Trunk.
These are translations of some of the best of Richard Leander’s well-known stories for children. The illustrations to this work are of singular beauty and finish.
THE AFRICAN CRUISER. A Midshipman’s Adventures on the West Coast. A Book for Boys. By S. Whitchurch Sadler, R.N. Three Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
A book of real adventures among slavers on the West Coast of Africa. One chief recommendation is the faithfulness of the local colouring.
THE LITTLE WONDER-HORN. By Jean Ingelow. A Second Series of “Stories told to a Child.” Fifteen Illustrations. Cloth, gilt. 3s. 6d.
“Full of fresh and vigorous fancy: it is worthy of the author of some of the best of our modern verse.”—Standard.
“We like all the contents of the ‘Little Wonder-Horn’ very much.”—Athenæum.
“We recommend it with confidence.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
Second Edition.
BRAVE MEN’S FOOTSTEPS. A Book of Example and Anecdote for Young People. By the Editor of “Men who have Risen.” With Four Illustrations. By C. Doyle. 3s. 6d.
“The little volume is precisely of the stamp to win the favour of those who, in choosing a gift for a boy, would consult his moral development as well as his temporary pleasure.”—Daily Telegraph.
“A readable and instructive volume.”—Examiner.
“No more welcome book for the school-boy could be imagined.”—Birmingham Daily Gazette.
Third Edition.
STORIES IN PRECIOUS STONES. By Helen Zimmern. With Six Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 5s.
“A pretty little book which fanciful young persons will appreciate, and which will remind its readers of many a legend, and many an imaginary virtue attached to the gems they are so fond of wearing.”—Post.
“A series of pretty tales which are half fantastic, half natural, and pleasantly quaint, as befits stories intended for the young.”—Daily Telegraph.
Second Edition.
GUTTA-PERCHA WILLIE, THE WORKING GENIUS. By George Macdonald. With Illustrations by Arthur Hughes. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
“An amusing and instructive book.”—Yorkshire Post.
“One of those charming books for which the author is so well known.”—Edinburgh Daily Review.
“The cleverest child we know assures us she has read this story through five times. Mr. Macdonald will, we are convinced, accept that verdict upon his little work as final.”—Spectator.
THE TRAVELLING MENAGERIE. By Charles Camden, Author of “Hoity Toity.” Illustrated by J. Mahoney. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
“A capital little book ... deserves a wide circulation among our boys and girls.”—Hour.
“A very attractive story.”—Public Opinion.
PLUCKY FELLOWS. A Book for Boys. By Stephen J. MacKenna. With Six Illustrations. Crown 8vo. Price 3s. 6d.
“This is one of the very best ‘Books for Boys’ which have been issued this year.”—Morning Advertiser.
“A thorough book for boys ... written throughout in a manly straightforward manner that is sure to win the hearts of the children for whom it is intended.”—London Society.
THE GREAT DUTCH ADMIRALS. By Jacob de Liefde. Crown 8vo. Illustrated. Price 5s.
“A really good book.”—Standard.
“May be recommended as a wholesome present for boys. They will find in it numerous tales of adventure.”—Athenæum.
“Thoroughly interesting and inspiriting.”—Public Opinion.
“A really excellent book.”—Spectator.
New Edition.
THE DESERT PASTOR, JEAN JAROUSSEAU. Translated from the French of Eugène Pelletan. By Colonel E. P. De L’Hoste. In fcap. 8vo, with an Engraved Frontispiece. Price 3s. 6d.
“There is a poetical simplicity and picturesqueness; the noblest heroism; unpretentious religion; pure love, and the spectacle of a household brought up in the fear of the Lord....”—Illustrated London News.
“This charming specimen of Eugène Pelletan’s tender grace, humour, and high-toned morality.”—Notes and Queries.
“A touching record of the struggles in the cause of religious liberty of a real man.”—Graphic.
THE DESERTED SHIP. A Real Story of the Atlantic. By Cupples Howe, Master Mariner. Illustrated by Townley Green. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
“Curious adventures with bears, seals, and other Arctic animals, and with scarcely more human Esquimaux, form the mass of material with which the story deals, and will much interest boys who have a spice of romance in their composition.”—Courant.
HOITY TOITY, THE GOOD LITTLE FELLOW. By Charles Camden. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
“Young folks may gather a good deal of wisdom from the story, which is written in an amusing and attractive style.”—Courant.
“Relates very pleasantly the history of a charming little fellow who meddles always with a kindly disposition with other people’s affairs and helps them to do right. There are many shrewd lessons to be picked up in this clever little story.”—Public Opinion.