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Blackie's Books for Young People, Catalogue - 1899

BOOKS FOR GIRLS.

Reading edition

In crown 8vo, cloth elegant.

Banshee Castle. By Rosa Mulholland (Lady Gilbert). With 12 page Illustrations by John H. Bacon. 6s.

“One of the most fascinating of Miss Rosa Mulholland’s many fascinating stories.”—Athenæum.

Giannetta. By Rosa Mulholland (Lady Gilbert). With 8 page Illustrations by Lockhart Bogle. 5s.

“One of the most attractive gift-books of the season.”—The Academy.

A Girl’s Loyalty. By Frances Armstrong. With 8 page Illustrations by John H. Bacon. 5s.

“There is no doubt as to the good quality of A Girl’s Loyalty. The book is one which would enrich any girl’s book-shelf.”—St. James’s Gazette.

A Fair Claimant: Being a Story for Girls. By Frances Armstrong. Illustrated by Gertrude D. Hammond. 5s.

“As a gift-book for big girls it is among the best new books of the kind. The story is interesting and natural, from first to last.”—Westminster Gazette.

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Adventures in Toyland. By Edith King Hall. With 8 page Pictures printed in Colour, and 70 Black-and-White Illustrations throughout the text, by Alice B. Woodward. Crown 4to, decorated cloth boards, gilt edges, 5s.

“One of the funniest as well as one of the daintiest books of the season. The Adventures are graphically described in a very humorous way.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“The story is a capital ‘make-believe’, and exhibits real knowledge on the part of both author and illustrator of what children want, as well as an unusual power of supplying it.”—Literature.

BY ROBERT LEIGHTON.

“Mr. Robert Leighton has taken a place in the very front rank of the writers of stories for boys.”—Daily Graphic.

In crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges.

The Golden Galleon: A Narrative of the Adventures of Master Gilbert Oglander, under the gallant Sir Richard Grenville in the great sea-fight off Flores. By Robert Leighton. With 8 page Illustrations by William Rainey, r.i. 5s.

“The story itself is a capital one, but the chief merit lies in the telling. It presents an excellent picture of life in England, both on land and sea, in the days of Elizabeth.”—Standard.

Olaf the Glorious. By Robert Leighton. With 8 page Illustrations by Ralph Peacock, and a Map. 5s.

“Is as good as anything of the kind we have met with. Mr. Leighton more than holds his own with Rider Haggard and Baring-Gould.”—The Times.

The Wreck of “The Golden Fleece”: The story of a North Sea Fisher-boy. By Robert Leighton. With 8 page Illustrations by F. Brangwyn. 5s.

“This story should add considerably to Mr. Leighton’s high reputation. 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.

The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands. By Robert Leighton. Illustrated by John Leighton. 5s.

“A story which is quite as good in its way as Treasure Island, and is full of adventure of a stirring yet most natural kind. Although it is primarily a boys’ book, it is a real godsend to the elderly reader.”—Glasgow Evening Times.

The Thirsty Sword: A Story of the Norse Invasion of Scotland (1262-63). By Robert Leighton. With 8 page Illustrations by A. Pearse. 5s.

“This is one of the most fascinating stories for boys that it has ever been our pleasure to read. From first to last the interest never flags.”—Schoolmaster.

The Clever Miss Follett. By J. K. H. Denny. With 12 page Illustrations by Gertrude D. Hammond. 6s.

“Just the book to give to girls, who will delight both in the letterpress and the illustrations. Miss Hammond has never done better work.”—Review of Reviews.

The Heiress of Courtleroy. By Anne Beale. With 8 page Illustrations by T. C. H. Castle. 5s.

“We can speak highly of the grace with which Miss Beale relates how the young ‘Heiress of Courtleroy’ had such good influence over her uncle as to win him from his intensely selfish ways.”—Guardian.

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