"Mr. Collingwood is _facile princeps_ as a teller of sea stories for boys, and the present is one of the best productions of his pen."--_Standard._
"This is one of the author"s best sea stories. The hero is as heroic as any boy could desire, and the ending is extremely happy."--_British Weekly._
BY HARRY COLLINGWOOD.
"Mr. Collingwood has established his reputation as a first-rate writer of sea-stories.--_Scotsman._
_THE ROVER"S SECRET:_
A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba. By HARRY COLLINGWOOD. "With 8 full-page Ill.u.s.trations by W. C. SYMONS. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, $150.
The hero of the _Rover"s Secret_, a young officer of the British navy, narrates his peculiar experiences in childhood and his subsequent perils and achievements: the mutiny on board the _Hermione_; his escape with a companion to La Guayra, their seizure by the Spaniards, their romantic flight, and the strange blunder which commits them to a cruise to the headquarters of the notorious pirate Merlani, whose ultimate capture and confession come about in a way as exciting as unexpected.
"_The Rover"s Secret_ is by far the best sea-story we have read for years, and is certain to give unalloyed pleasure to boys. The ill.u.s.trations are fresh and vigorous."--_Sat.u.r.day Review._
"A book that will rejoice the hearts of most lads.
We doubt whether, since the days of Captain Marryat, there has arisen a writer who combined fertility of invention in stirring episodes, with practical knowledge of seafaring life, in the degree to which Mr. Collingwood attains in this volume."--_Scottish Leader._
_THE PIRATE ISLAND:_
A Story of the South Pacific. By HARRY COLLINGWOOD.
Ill.u.s.trated by 8 full-page Pictures by C. J.
STANILAND and J. R. WELLS, in black and tint.
Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, $150.
This story details the adventures of a lad who was found in his infancy on board a wreck, and is adopted by a fisherman. By a deed of true gallantry his whole destiny is changed, and, going to sea, he forms one of a party who, after being burned out of their ship in the South Pacific, and experiencing great hardship and suffering in their boats, are picked up by a pirate brig and taken to the "Pirate Island." After many thrilling adventures, they ultimately succeed in effecting their escape. The story depicts both the Christian and the manly virtues in such colours as will cause them to be admired--and therefore imitated.
"A capital story of the sea; indeed in our opinion the author is superior in some respects as a marine novelist to the better known Mr. Clarke Russell."--_The Times._
"The best of these books. . . . The events are described with minuteness and care. The result is a very amusing book."--_Sat.u.r.day Review._
"Told in the most vivid and graphic language. It would be difficult to find a more thoroughly delightful gift-book."--_The Guardian._
"One of the very best books for boys that we have seen for a long time: its author stands far in advance of any other writer for boys as a teller of stories of the sea."--_The Standard._
BY HARRY COLLINGWOOD.
"Stands far in advance of any other writer for boys as a teller of sea stories."--_Standard._
_THE CONGO ROVERS:_
A Tale of the Slave Squadron. By HARRY COLLINGWOOD.
With 8 full-page Ill.u.s.trations by J. SCHoNBERG, in black and tint. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, $150.
The scene of this tale is laid on the west coast of Africa, and in the lower reaches of the Congo; the characteristic scenery of the great river being delineated with wonderful accuracy and completeness of detail. The hero of the story--a midshipman on board one of the ships of the slave squadron--after being effectually laughed out of his boyish vanity, develops into a lad possessed of a large share of sound common sense, the exercise of which enables him to render much valuable service to his superior officers in unmasking a most daring and successful ruse on the part of the slavers.
"Mr. Collingwood carries us off for another cruise at sea, in _The Congo Rovers_, and boys will need no pressing to join the daring crew, which seeks adventures and meets with any number of them."--_The Times._
"We can heartily recommend _The Congo Rovers_ as a book that boys will be sure to read throughout with pleasure, and with advantage, also, to their morals and their imaginations."--_Academy._
BY G. NORWAY.
_THE LOSS OF JOHN HUMBLE:_
What Led to It, and what Came of It. By G. NORWAY.
With 8 full-page Ill.u.s.trations by JOHN SCHoNBERG.
Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, $150.
John Humble, an orphan, is sent to sea with his Uncle Rolf, the captain of the _Erl King_, but in the course of certain adventures the boy is left behind at Portsmouth. He escapes to a Norwegian vessel, the _Thor_, which is driven from her course in a voyage to Hammerfest, and wrecked on a desolate sh.o.r.e. The survivors experience the miseries of a long sojourn in the Arctic circle, but ultimately, with the aid of some friendly but thievish Lapps, they succeed in making their way to a reindeer station and so southward to Tornea and home again.
"Since the days when we read _Robinson Crusoe_, no book of its kind has delighted us more. It is just the gift for boys. "Old Boys" will read it with pleasure."--_Schoolmaster._
"This story will place the author at once in the front rank. It is full of life and adventure, and the interest is sustained without a break from first to last."--_Standard._
BY SARAH TYTLER.
_GIRL NEIGHBOURS:_
Or, The Old Fashion and the New. By SARAH TYTLER.
With 8 full-page Ill.u.s.trations by C. T. GARLAND.
Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, $150.
A story specially adapted for girls, told in that quaint delightful fashion which has made Miss Tytler"s former books so popular and attractive. The characters of the Girl Neighbours Sapientia (Pie) Stubbs, and Harriet (Harry) Cotton, who may be said respectively to ill.u.s.trate the old and the new fashioned method of education, are admirably delineated; and the introduction of the two young ladies from London, who represent the modern inst.i.tutions of professional nursing and schools of cookery, is very happily effected. The story possesses abundant humour and piquant descriptions of character.