The Blue Raider Part 35

Coloured Ill.u.s.trations by ARCHIBALD WEBB.

This is one of W. H. G. Kingston's best books in the sense that it has an atmosphere of reality about it, and reads like the narrative of one who has actually pa.s.sed through all the experiences described; and this is no mere illusion, for the author states in his preface that the material from which the story was built up was put into his hands by a well-known naval officer, who afterwards rote to the position of admiral. Mr. Hurry enters the navy as mids.h.i.+pman a few years before the outbreak of the American War of Independence, and during that war he distinguishes himself both on land and sea.

Will Weatherhelm

Coloured Ill.u.s.trations by ARCHIBALD WEBB.

A splendid tale of the sea, full of incident and adventure, and a first-rate account of the sailor's life afloat in the days of the press-gang and the old wooden walls.. The author reveals his own ardent love of the sea and all that pertains to it, and this story embodies a true ideal of patriotic service.

By G. A. HENTY

In Times of Peril

A Story of India. Ill.u.s.trated in Colour by T. C. DUGDALE.

Major Warrener and his children are stationed at Sandynugghur when news arrives that the native troops at Meerut have mutinied and murdered all the Europeans there and are marching upon Delhi. Almost immediately the Major's house is attacked and his family flee for their lives. The Major himself and some of his companions are taken prisoners, but only for a short time, for his sons, Ned and d.i.c.k, disguising themselves as Sepoys, are able to rescue them. The party after an anxious time fall in with a body of English troops who are on the way to relieve Delhi.

d.i.c.k and Ned are in Cawnpore when the Europeans are attacked, but they escape by swimming instead of trusting themselves in boats. They take part in the storming of Delhi, which had been taken by the natives, and in the relief of Lucknow. The end of the Mutiny finds the whole family once more united.

Edited by HERBERT STRANG

Early Days in Canada Pioneers in Canada Early Days in Australia Pioneers in Australia Early Days in India Duty and Danger in India

Each book contains eight plates in Colour.

The story of the discovery, conquest, settlement, and peaceful development of the great countries which now form part of the British Empire, is full of interest and romance. In this series of books the story is told in a number of extracts from the writings of historians, biographers, and travellers whose works are nut easily accessible to the general reader. Each volume is complete in itself and gives a vivid picture of the progress of the particular country with which it deals.

BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

HERBERT STRANG'S LIBRARY

This is a new series of standard books for boys and girls, comprising the great works of history, fiction, biography, travel, science, and poetry with which every boy and girl should be familiar, edited by Mr.

HERBERT STRANG.

Each volume is prefaced by a short introduction, giving a biographical account of the author, or such information concerning the book itself as may be useful and interesting to young readers. Notes, maps, and plans are given where necessary.

The text of the books, many of which were not written primarily for children, is carefully edited both in regard to matters that are inherently unsuitable for their reading, and to pa.s.sages that do not conform to modern standards of taste. In these and other respects the Editor will exercise a wide discretion.

The Library is ill.u.s.trated with colour plates, reproduced by three-colour process from designs by H. M. BROCK, JAMES DURDEN, A. WEBB, and other well-known artists.

The following volumes are now ready:--

Adventures in the Rifle Brigade By Sir John Kincaid Westward Ho! By Charles Kingsley The Life of Wellington By W. H. Maxwell The Boy's Country Book By William Howitt Mungo Park's Travels The Coral Island By R. M. Ballantyne True Blue By W. H. G. Kingston Little Women By Louisa Alcott Good Wives By Louisa Alcott Tales from Hans Andersen Stories from Grimm Tom Brown's Schooldays By Thomas Hughes The Life of Nelson By Robert Southey Quentin Durward By Sir Walter Scott A Book of Golden Deeds By Charlotte M. Yonge A Wonder Book By Nathaniel Hawthorne What Katy Did By Susan Coolidge What Katy Did at School By Susan Coolidge What Katy Did Next By Susan Coolidge Ivanhoe By Sir Walter Scott Curiosities of Natural History By Frank Buckland Captain Cook's Voyages The Heroes By Charles Kingsley Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe Tales from Shakespeare By Charles and Mary Lamb Peter the Whaler By W. H. G. Kingston Queechy By Elizabeth Wetherell The Wide Wide World By Elizabeth Wetherell Tanglewood Tales By Nathaniel Hawthorne The Life of Columbus By Was.h.i.+ngton Irving Battles of the Peninsular War By Sir William Napier Mids.h.i.+pman Easy By Captain Marryat

Books for Girls

By CHRISTINA GOWANS WHYTE

Uncle Hilary's Nieces

Ill.u.s.trated in Colour by JAMES BURDEN.

Until the death of their father, the course of life of Uncle Hilary's nieces had run smooth; but then the current of misfortune came upon them, carried them, with their mother and brothers, to London, and established them in a flat. Here, under the guardians.h.i.+p of Uncle Hilary, they enter into the spirit of their new situation; and when it comes to a question of ways and means, prove that they have both courage and resource. Thus Bertha secretly takes a position as stock-keeper to a fas.h.i.+onable dressmaker; Milly tries to write, and has the satisfaction of seeing her name in print; Edward takes up architecture and becomes engrossed in the study of "cupboards and kitchen sinks"; while all the rest contribute as well to the maintenance of the household as to the interest of the story.

"We have seldom read a prettier story than ... 'Uncle Hilary's Nieces.'

... It is a daintily woven plot clothed in a style that has already commended itself to many readers, and is bound to make more friends."--_Daily News_.

The Five Macleods

Ill.u.s.trated in Colour by JAMES DURDEN.

The modern Louisa Alcott! That is the t.i.tle that critics in England and America have bestowed on Miss Christina Gowans Whyte, whose "Story-Book Girls" they declare to be the best girls' story since "Little Women."

Like the Leightons and the Howards, the Macleods are another of those delightful families whose doings, as described by Miss Whyte, make such entertaining reading. Each of the five Macleods possesses an individuality of her own. Elspeth is the eldest--sixteen, with her hair "very nearly up"--and her lovable nature makes her a favourite with every one; she is followed, in point of age, by the would-be masterful Winifred (otherwise Winks) and the independent Lil; while little Babs and Dorothy bring up the rear.

"Altogether a most charming story for girls."--_Schoolmaster_.

Nina's Career

Ill.u.s.trated in Colour by JAMES BURDEN.

"Nina's Career" tells delightfully of a large family of girls and boys, children of Sir Christopher Howard. Friends of the Howards are Nina Wentworth, who lives with three aunts, and Gertrude Mannering. Gertrude is conscious of always missing in her life that which makes the lives of the Howards so joyous and full. They may have "careers"; she must go to Court and through the wearying treadmill of the rich girls. The Howards get engaged, marry, go into hospitals, study in art schools; and in the end Gertrude also achieves happiness.

"We have been so badly in need of writers for girls who shall be in sympathy with the modern standard of intelligence, that we are grateful for the advent of Miss Whyte, who has not inaptly been described as the new Miss Alcott."--_Outlook_.

The Story-Book Girls

Ill.u.s.trated in Colour by JAMES BURDEN.

This story won the 100 prize in the Bookman compet.i.tion. The Leightons are a charming family. There is Mabel, the beauty, her nature, strength and sweetness mingled; and Jean, the downright, blunt, uncompromising; and Elma, the sympathetic, who champions everybody, and has a weakness for long words. And there is Cuthbert, too, the clever brother.