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MEG LANGHOLME, or the Day after To-morrow. By Mrs Molesworth, author of Philippa, Olivia, Blanche, Carrots, Imogen, &c. With eight Illustrations by W. Rainey. 5/

Mrs Molesworth with her usual charm of manner, and easy natural grace, traces the development of Meg Langholme from early girlhood to young womanhood, with her friends and companions in the home of Bray Weald, where she is like an adopted daughter, until mysterious warnings bode the disaster of her life; for certain reasons she is kidnapped and concealed until cleverly rescued, and happily married to a lifelong friend then home from India.

VINCE THE REBEL, or the Sanctuary in the Bog. By George Manville Fenn, author of The Black Tor, Roy Royland, Diamond Dyke, The Rajah of Dah, Real Gold, &c. With eight Illustrations by W. H. C. Groome. 5/

Relates the troubles at Mere Abbey, a fine South-of-England mansion, surrounded by bogs and woodlands, during the reign of James II. of England, and how Vince the Rebel lay in hiding here after Sedgemoor, and escaped the soldiers sent in pursuit. The free and healthy country life enjoyed by Walter Heron and his cousin Vince, along with Sol Bogg, the man-servant, who aids in all the fishing, hunting, and woodland adventures, form a fascinating and enjoyable narrative for readers of all ages.

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WILD KITTY. By L. T. Meade, author of Catalina, &c. With eight Illustrations by J. Ayton Symington. 5/

Mrs Meade again gives a picture of school-girl life, in which many varied characters play a part, the most interesting and original being Kitty Malone from Castle Malone in Ireland, who earns the nickname of Wild Kitty because of her love of mischief and unconventional manners. Mrs Meade is herself a native of Ireland and quite at home in sketching such a character, and she does not fail to weave a fascinating narrative, and one which she herself believes will rank amongst her best efforts.

PHILIPPA. By Mrs Molesworth, author of Olivia, Blanche, Robin Redbreast, Carrots, Imogen, &c. With eight Illustrations by J. Finnemore. 5/

‘Very clever, very fantastic, and very enjoyable.’—Spectator.

‘One of Mrs Molesworth’s best stories for girls.’—The Queen.

‘Fully maintains her charm of style and narration.’—Leeds Mercury.

THE GIRL AT THE DOWER HOUSE, AND AFTERWARD. By Agnes Giberne, author of Sun, Moon, and Stars; A Lady of England, &c. With eight Illustrations by J. Finnemore. 5/

‘An absorbing story.’—Daily Free Press.

‘A charming love-tale.’—Westminster Review.

CATALINA: Art Student. By L. T. Meade, author of Betty, Four on an Island, Wilton Chase, &c. With eight Illustrations, by W. Boucher. 5/

‘The story is managed with great skills.’—Daily Free Press.

‘Unquestionably one of Mrs Meade’s best books.’—Evening News.

‘Very brightly told.’—Punch.

THE BLACK TOR: A Tale of the Reign of James I. By George Manville Fenn, author of Roy Royland, Diamond Dyke, The Rajah of Dah, Real Gold, &c. With eight Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. 5/

‘A capital story ... full of incident and adventure.’—The Standard.

‘There is a fine manly tone about the book, which makes it particularly appropriate for youth.’—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.

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All my senses were now concentrating into the one maddening desire to reach shelter and safety. From Meg Langholme, by Mrs Molesworth; price 5s. Page 222.

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ROY ROYLAND, or the Young Castellan. By George Manville Fenn. With eight Illustrations by W. Boucher. 5/

‘Fascinating from beginning to end ... is told with much spirit and go.’—Birmingham Gazette.

THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE COAST. By David Lawson Johnstone. With twenty-one Illustrations by W. Boucher. Large crown 8vo, antique cloth gilt. 5/

‘There is fascination for every healthily-minded boy in the very name of the Buccaneers.... Mr D. Lawson Johnstone’s new story of adventure is already sure of a warm welcome.’—Manchester Guardian.

GIRLS NEW AND OLD. By L. T. Meade. With eight Illustrations by J. Williamson. 5/

‘A sound as well as entertaining romance.’—Yorkshire Daily Post.

‘It is a fine, bright, wholesome book, well bound and illustrated.’—Saturday Review.

DON. By the author of Laddie, &c. With eight Illustrations by J. Finnemore. Large crown 8vo, antique cloth gilt. 5/

‘A fresh and happy story ... told with great spirit ... it is as pure as spring air.’—Glasgow Herald.

OLIVIA. By Mrs Molesworth. With eight Illustrations by Robert Barnes. 5/

‘A beautiful story, an ideal gift-book for girls.’—British Weekly.

BETTY: a School Girl. By L. T. Meade. With eight Illustrations by Everard Hopkins. 5/

‘This is an admirable tale of school-girl life: her history involves an excellent moral skilfully conveyed.’—Glasgow Herald.

WESTERN STORIES. By William Atkinson. With Frontispiece. 5/

‘These stories touch a very high point of excellence. They are natural, vivid, and thoroughly interesting.’—Speaker.

BLANCHE. By Mrs Molesworth, author of Robin Redbreast, The Next-Door House, &c. With eight Illustrations by Robert Barnes. 5/

‘Eminently healthy ... pretty and interesting, free from sentimentality.’—Queen.

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Sol sat staring straight at Wat with his mouth open. From Vince the Rebel, by G. Manville Fenn; price 5s. Page 167.

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DIAMOND DYKE, or the Lone Farm on the Veldt: a Story of South African Adventure. By George Manville Fenn, author of The Rajah of Dah, Dingo Boys, &c. With eight Illustrations by W. Boucher. 5/

‘There is not a dull page in the book.’—Aberdeen Free Press.

REAL GOLD: a Story of Adventure. By George Manville Fenn. With eight Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. 5/

‘In the author’s best style, and brimful of life and adventure.... Equal to any of the tales of adventure Mr Fenn has yet written.’—Standard.

POMONA. By the author of Laddie, Rose and Lavender, Zoe, Baby John, &c. With eight Illustrations by Robert Barnes. 5/

‘A bright, healthy story for girls.’—Bookseller.

DOMESTIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND, from the Reformation to the Rebellion of 1745. By Robert Chambers, LL.D. Abridged from the original octavo edition in three volumes. 5/

ALL ROUND THE YEAR. A Monthly Garland by Thomas Miller, author of English Country Life, &c. And Key to the Calendar. With Twelve Allegorical Designs by John Leighton, F.S.A., and other Illustrations. 5/

Price 3s. 6d.

HUNTED THROUGH FIJI, or ’Twixt Convict and Cannibal. By Reginald Horsley, author of The Yellow God, The Blue Balloon, &c. With six Illustrations by J. Ayton Symington. 3/6

Dr Horsley is here at his best in following the fortunes of three young lads pursued by convicts and natives through Fiji in the cannibal days. The pages are crowded with adventures and hairbreadth escapes, sufficient to carry any reader from beginning to close without abatement of interest.

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HOODIE. By Mrs Molesworth. With seventeen Illustrations by Lewis Baumer. 3/6

The story, very simply and naturally told, is of a rather naughty little girl who at first has a mistaken idea that she is out of favour with everybody, but who gets brought to a better mind by an illness. The little heroine displays great character.

THE ‘ROVER’S’ QUEST: a Story of Foam, Fire, and Fight. By Hugh St Leger, author of Sou’wester and Sword, &c. With six Illustrations by J. Ayton Symington. 3/6

A tough yarn, which relates how Noel Hamilton is picked up from a boat in the Channel by a passing merchant ship and carried into eastern seas, where he encounters all the horrors of a mutiny, a sea-quake, and shipwreck, his loneliness on a barren island being shared by two fine old salts named Sam Port and Eli Grouse. How they are rescued by the Rover, out on a strange quest, and how this quest is accomplished, form the thread of an interesting narrative of sea life.

A DAUGHTER OF THE KLEPHTS, or A Girl of Modern Greece. By Isabella Fyvie Mayo (Edward Garrett), author of Occupations of a Retired Life, By Still Waters, &c. Crown 8vo, art linen, gilt. With six Illustrations by W. Boucher. 3/6

‘A well-written, sensible piece of work, likely to please educated and thoughtful girls.’—The Globe.

‘The book is interesting as a dramatic representation of incidents both tragical and heroic.’—Inverness Courier.

‘The numerous characters in the story are vivid portraitures, the very humblest has nothing of the puppet in him or her, and the story from the first page to the last is highly interesting, realistic, and natural.’—Scotsman.

YOUNG DENYS: a Story of the Days of Napoleon. By Eleanor C. Price, author of In the Lion’s Mouth, Miss Latimer of Bryans, The Little One, A Lost Battle, &c. With six Illustrations by G. Nicolet. 3/6

‘An interesting tale of the great Napoleon.’—Punch.

‘Children of any age can enjoy its quiet vigour and character sketches.’—Spectator.

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A SOLDIER OF THE LEGION: a Romance. By David Lawson Johnstone, author of The Brotherhood of the Coast, The Rebel Commodore, &c. With seventeen Illustrations by W. Boucher. 3/6

‘A spirited romance of adventure ... which follows the career of a young Englishman in the Carlist wars.’—Scotsman.

‘Distinguished alike for accuracy in detail and for vivid imagination.’—The Standard.

SWEPT OUT TO SEA. By David Ker, author of Prisoner among Pirates, Cossack and Czar, Vanished, The Wizard King, &c. With six Illustrations by J. Ayton Symington. 3/6

‘A fine stirring story of adventure on sea and land.... The local colour of the West Indies is laid on delicately and truthfully.’—Birmingham Gazette.

‘Crowded with adventure and excitement.’—Black and White.

TWO BOY TRAMPS. By J. Macdonald Oxley, author of Bert Lloyd’s Boyhood, Fergus Mactavish, &c. With six Illustrations by H. Sandham. 3/6

‘An uncommonly good tale.’—School Board Chronicle.

‘There is plenty of incident, and the interest is throughout well kept up.’—Spectator.

THE BLUE BALLOON: a Tale of the Shenandoah Valley. By Reginald Horsley. With six Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. 3/6

‘We have seldom read a finer tale. It is a kind of masterpiece.’—Methodist Times.

THE WIZARD KING: a Story of the Last Moslem Invasion of Europe. By David Ker. With six Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. 3/6

‘This volume ought to find an army of admiring readers.’—Liverpool Mercury.

THE REBEL COMMODORE (Paul Jones); being Memoirs of the Earlier Adventures of Sir Ascott Dalrymple. By D. Lawson Johnstone. With six Illustrations by W. Boucher. 3/6

‘It is a good story, full of hairbreadth escapes and perilous adventures.’—To-day.

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‘My land, William, I’ve got the drop on you.’ From Hunted Through Fiji, by Reginald Horsley: price 3s. 6d.

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ROBIN REDBREAST. By Mrs Molesworth, author of Imogen, Next-Door House, The Cuckoo Clock, &c. With six original Illustrations by Robert Barnes. 3/6

‘It is a long time since we read a story for girls more simple, natural, or interesting.’—Publishers’ Circular.

THE WHITE KAID OF THE ATLAS. By J. Maclaren Cobban. With six Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. 3/6

‘A well-told tale of adventure and daring in Morocco, in which the late and the present Sultan both figure.... A very pleasant book to read.’—Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review.

THE YELLOW GOD: a Tale of some Strange Adventures. By Reginald Horsley. With six Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. 3/6

‘Admirably designed, and set forth with life-like force.... A first-rate book for boys.’—Saturday Review.

PRISONER AMONG PIRATES. By David Ker, author of Cossack and Czar, The Wild Horseman of the Pampas, &c. With six Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. 3/6

‘A singularly good story, calculated to encourage what is noble and manly in boys.’—Athenæum.

JOSIAH MASON: A BIOGRAPHY. With Sketches of the History of the Steel Pen and Electroplating Trades. By John Thackray Bunce. With Portrait and Illustrations. 3/6

FOUR ON AN ISLAND: a Story of Adventure. By L. T. Meade, author of Daddy’s Boy, Scamp and I, Wilton Chase, &c. With six original Illustrations by W. Rainey. 3/6

‘This is a very bright description of modern Crusoes.’—Graphic.

IN THE LAND OF THE GOLDEN PLUME: a Tale of Adventure. By David Lawson Johnstone, author of The Paradise of the North, The Mountain Kingdom, &c. With six Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. 3/6

‘Most thrilling, and excellently worked out.’—Graphic.

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THE DINGO BOYS; or the Squatters of Wallaby Range. By George Manville Fenn, author of The Rajah of Dah, In the King’s Name, &c. With six original Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. 3/6

THE CHILDREN OF WILTON CHASE. By L. T. Meade, author of Four on an Island, Scamp and I, &c. With six Illustrations by Everard Hopkins. 3/6

‘Both entertaining and instructive.’—Spectator.

THE PARADISE OF THE NORTH: a Story of Discovery and Adventure around the Pole. By D. Lawson Johnstone, author of Richard Tregellas, The Mountain Kingdom, &c. With fifteen Illustrations by W. Boucher. 3/6

‘Marked by a Verne-like fertility of fancy.’—Saturday Review.

THE RAJAH OF DAH. By George Manville Fenn, author of In the King’s Name, &c. With six Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. 3/6

Price 2s. 6d.

ANIMAL STORIES. Selected and edited by Robert Cochrane, editor of Great Thinkers and Workers, Romance of Industry and Invention, &c. Profusely Illustrated. 2/6

A selection of varied true stories of animal life, illustrating sagacity, instinct, the almost human traits of monkeys, speaking powers of parrots, the usefulness and cleverness of many dogs, horses, elephants, and hairbreadth escapes from lions, tigers, bears, and snakes. The examples are drawn from a wide field, and the narratives are brightly written.

ELSIE’S MAGICIAN. By Fred Whishaw, author of Boris the Bear Hunter, A Tsar’s Gratitude, &c. With ten Illustrations by Lewis Baumer. 2/6

A pretty story told with real humour and vivacity of how a little London girl managed to provide for her mother a much-needed holiday abroad, and brought together a father and daughter who had been alienated for many years to the sorrow and misfortune of both.

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THE ROMANCE OF COMMERCE. By J. Macdonald Oxley, LL.B., B.A. With fifteen Illustrations. 2/6

‘Sure to fascinate young lads fond of tales of adventure and daring.’—Evening News.

ABIGAIL TEMPLETON; or Brave Efforts. A Story of To-day. By Emma Marshall, author of Under Salisbury Spire, &c. With four Illustrations by J. Finnemore. 2/6

‘A bright and happy narrative.... Told with great spirit.’—Birmingham Gazette.

THE ROMANCE OF INDUSTRY AND INVENTION. Selected by Robert Cochrane, editor of Great Thinkers and Workers, Beneficent and Useful Lives, Adventure and Adventurers, Recent Travel and Adventure, Good and Great Women, Heroic Lives, &c. With 34 process and woodcut Illustrations. 2/6

‘It is hard to say which chapter is the best, for each seems more interesting than the last.’—The Queen.

‘A most interesting and inspiring book.’—Colliery Guardian.

‘We can recommend this work as at once instructive and interesting.’—New Age.

THROUGH THICK AND THIN: The Story of a School Campaign. By Andrew Home, author of From Fag to Monitor, Disturbers of the Peace, &c. With four Illustrations by W. Rainey. 2/6

‘This is just the kind of book for boys to rave over; it does not cram moral axioms down their throats, the characters act them instead.’—Glasgow Daily Mail.

PLAYMATES: A Story for Boys and Girls. By L. T. Meade. With six Illustrations by G. Nicolet. 2/6

‘The charm of Mrs Meade’s stories for children is well sustained in this pretty and instructive tale.’—Liverpool Mercury.

OUTSKERRY: The Story of an Island. By Helen Waters. With four Illustrations by R. Burns. 2/6

‘The diversion provided is varied beyond expectation (and indeed belief). We read of an “Arabian Night’s Entertainment,” but here is enough for an Arctic night.’—The Times.

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‘There’ll be more than one dead corpse amongst you afore you can say knife, mark me!’ From The ‘Rover’s’ Quest, by Hugh St Leger; price 3s. 6d. Page 91.

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WHITE TURRETS. By Mrs Molesworth, author of Carrots, Olivia, &c. With four Illustrations by W. Rainey. 2/6

‘A charming story.... A capital antidote to the unrest that inspires young folks that seek for some great thing to do, while the great thing for them is at their hand and at their home.’—Scotsman.

HUGH MELVILLE’S QUEST: a Boy’s Adventures in the Days of the Armada. By F. M. Holmes. With four Illustrations by W. Boucher. 2/6

‘A refreshing, stirring story ... and one sure to delight young boys and young girls too.’—Spectator.

ELOCUTION, a Book for Reciters and Readers. Edited by R. C. H. Morison. 2/6

‘No elocutionist’s library can be said to be complete without this neatly bound volume of 500 pages.... An introduction on the art of elocution is a gem of conciseness and intellectual teaching.’—Era.

‘One of the best books of its kind in the English language.’—Glasgow Citizen.

VANISHED, or the Strange Adventures of Arthur Hawkesleigh. By David Ker. Illustrated by W. Boucher. 2/6

‘It must be ranked high amongst its kind.’—Spectator.

‘A quite entrancing tale of adventure.’—Athenæum.

THISTLE AND ROSE. By Amy Walton. Illustrated by Robert Barnes. 2/6

‘Is as desirable a present to make to a girl as any one could wish.’—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.

ADVENTURE AND ADVENTURERS; being True Tales of Daring, Peril, and Heroism. With Illustrations. 2/6

‘The narratives are as fascinating as fiction.’—British Weekly.

BLACK, WHITE, AND GRAY: a Story of Three Homes. By Amy Walton, author of White Lilac, A Pair of Clogs, &c. With four Illustrations by Robert Barnes. 2/6

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OUT OF REACH: a Story. By Esmè Stuart, author of Through the Flood, A Little Brown Girl, &c. With four Illustrations by Robert Barnes. 2/6

‘The story is a very good one, and the book can be recommended for girls’ reading.’—Standard.

IMOGEN, or Only Eighteen. By Mrs Molesworth. With four Illustrations by H. A. Bone. 2/6

‘The book is an extremely clever one.’—Daily Chronicle.

‘A readable and very pretty story.’—Black and White.

THE LOST TRADER, or the Mystery of the Lombardy. By Henry Frith, author of The Cruise of the ‘Wasp,’ The Log of the ‘Bombastes,’ &c. With four Illustrations by W. Boucher. 2/6

‘Mr Frith writes good sea-stories, and this is the best of them that we have read.’—Academy.

BASIL WOOLLCOMBE, MIDSHIPMAN. By Arthur Lee Knight, author of The Adventures of a Midshipmite, &c. With Frontispiece by W. S. Stacey, and other Illustrations. 2/6

THE NEXT-DOOR HOUSE. By Mrs Molesworth. With six Illustrations by W. Hatherell. 2/6

‘I venture to predict for it as loving a welcome as that received by the inimitable Carrots.’—Manchester Courier.

COSSACK AND CZAR. By David Ker, author of The Boy Slave in Bokhara, The Wild Horseman of the Pampas, &c. With original Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. 2/6

‘There is not an uninteresting line in it.’—Spectator.

THROUGH THE FLOOD, the Story of an Out-of-the-way Place. By Esmè Stuart. With Illustrations. 2/6

‘A bright story of two girls, and shows how goodness rather than beauty in a face can heal old strifes.’—Friendly Leaves.

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WHEN WE WERE YOUNG. By Mrs O’Reilly, author of Joan and Jerry, Phœbe’s Fortunes, &c. With four Illustrations by H. A. Bone. 2/6

‘A delightfully natural and attractive story.’—Journal of Education.

ROSE AND LAVENDER. By the author of Laddie, Miss Toosey’s Mission, &c. With four original Illustrations by Herbert A. Bone. 2/6

‘A brightly-written tale, the characters in which, taken from humble life, are sketched with lifelike naturalness.’—Manchester Examiner.

JOAN AND JERRY. By Mrs O’Reilly, author of Sussex Stories, &c. With four original Illustrations by Herbert A. Bone. 2/6

‘An unusually satisfactory story for girls.’—Manchester Guardian.

THE YOUNG RANCHMEN, or Perils of Pioneering in the Wild West. By Charles R. Kenyon. With four original Illustrations by W. S. Stacey, and other Illustrations. 2/6

MEMOIR OF WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS. With Autobiographic Reminiscences of William Chambers, and Supplemental Chapter. 15th edition. With Portraits and Illustrations. 2/6

POPULAR RHYMES OF SCOTLAND. By Robert Chambers. 2/6

TRADITIONS OF EDINBURGH. By Robert Chambers. New Edition. With Illustrations. 2/6

GOOD AND GREAT WOMEN: a Book for Girls. Comprises brief lives of Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Mrs Beecher-Stowe, Jenny Lind, Charlotte Brontë, Mrs Hemans, Dorothy Pattison. Numerous Illustrations. 2/6

‘A brightly written volume, full to the brim of interesting and instructive matter; and either as reader, reward, or library book, is equally suitable.’—Teachers’ Aid.

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LIVES OF LEADING NATURALISTS. By H. Alleyne Nicholson, Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. Illustrated. 2/6

‘Popular and interesting by the skilful manner in which notices of the lives of distinguished naturalists, from John Ray and Francis Willoughby to Charles Darwin, are interwoven with the methodical exposition of the progress of the science to which they are devoted.’—Scotsman.

HISTORY OF THE REBELLION OF 1745-6. By Robert Chambers. New Edition, with Index and Illustrations. 2/6

‘There is not to be found anywhere a better account of the events of ’45 than that given here.’—Newcastle Chronicle.

BENEFICENT AND USEFUL LIVES. Comprising Lord Shaftesbury, George Peabody, Andrew Carnegie, Walter Besant, Samuel Morley, Sir James Y. Simpson, Dr Arnold of Rugby, &c. By R. Cochrane. With numerous Illustrations. 2/6

‘Nothing could be better than the author’s selection of facts setting forth the beneficent lives of those generous men in the narrow compass which the capacity of the volume allows.’—School Board Chronicle.

GREAT THINKERS AND WORKERS; being the Lives of Thomas Carlyle, Lord Armstrong, Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, Sir Titus Salt, W. M. Thackeray, Sir Henry Bessemer, John Ruskin, James Nasmyth, Charles Kingsley, Builders of the Forth Bridge, &c. With numerous Illustrations. 2/6

‘One of the most fitting presents for a thoughtful boy that we have come across.’—Review of Reviews.

RECENT TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE. Comprising Stanley and the Congo, Lieutenant Greely, Joseph Thomson, Livingstone, Lady Brassey, Vambéry, Burton, &c. Illustrated. Cloth. 2/6

‘It is wonderful how much that is of absorbing interest has been packed into this small volume.’—Scotsman.

LITERARY CELEBRITIES; being brief biographies of Wordsworth, Campbell, Moore, Jeffrey, and Macaulay. Illustrated. 2/6

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SONGS OF SCOTLAND prior to Burns, with the Tunes, edited by Robert Chambers, LL.D. With Illustrations. 2/6

This volume embodies the whole of the pre-Burnsian songs of Scotland that possess merit and are presentable, along with the music; each accompanied by its own history.

GREAT HISTORIC EVENTS. The Conquest of India, Indian Mutiny, French Revolution, the Crusades, the Conquest of Mexico, Napoleon’s Russian Campaign. Illustrated. 2/6

HISTORICAL CELEBRITIES. Comprising lives of Oliver Cromwell, Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, Duke of Wellington. Illustrated. 2/6

‘The story of their life-work is told in such a way as to teach important historical, as well as personal, lessons bearing upon the political history of this country.’—Schoolmaster.

STORIES OF REMARKABLE PERSONS. The Herschels, Mary Somerville, Sir Walter Scott, A. T. Stewart, &c. By William Chambers, LL.D. 2/6

Embraces about two dozen lives, and the biographical sketches are freely interspersed with anecdotes, so as to make it popular and stimulating reading for both young and old.

STORIES OF OLD FAMILIES. By W. Chambers, LL.D. 2/6

The Setons—Lady Jean Gordon—Countess of Nithsdale—Lady Grisell Baillie—Grisell Cochrane—the Keiths—Lady Grange—Lady Jane Douglas—Story of Wedderburn—Story of Erskine—Countess of Eglintoun—Lady Forbes—the Dalrymples—Montrose—Buccleuch Family—Argyll Family, &c.

YOUTH’S COMPANION AND COUNSELLOR. By William Chambers, LL.D. 2/6

TALES FOR TRAVELLERS. Selected from Chambers’s Papers for the People. 2 volumes, each 2/6

Containing twelve tales by the author of John Halifax, Gentleman, George Cupples, and other well-known writers.

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Price 2s.

BUNYAN’S PILGRIM’S PROGRESS. With Index; and Prefatory Memoir by Rev. John Brown, D.D., Bedford. Illustrated by J. D. Watson. 2/

A careful reprint, giving the best text of Bunyan’s masterpiece, with a useful index for ready reference.

BRUCE’S TRAVELS. Travels of James Bruce through part of Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia, into Abyssinia, to discover the source of the Nile. Illustrated. 2/

‘An ideal volume for a school prize.’—Publishers’ Circular.

‘The record of his journey in this volume is full of fascination and freshness. Few travellers have followed in Bruce’s footsteps; none have seen with a clearer eye or left more vivid impressions of what he saw.’—Aberdeen Free Press.

‘A healthier or more entertaining book it would be impossible to place in the hands of any youth. When we look to the 358 pages of clear letterpress, the capital illustrations, and the pretty binding, the book seems a marvel of cheapness.’—Perthshire Courier.

THE HALF-CASTE: an Old Governess’s Story, and other Tales. By the author of John Halifax, Gentleman. 2/

‘Cannot but edify, while it must of necessity gratify and please the fortunate reader.’—Liverpool Mercury.

‘The volume contains six short stories, which may be unhesitatingly recommended to such as relish fiction that is free from all morbidness, and is at the same time interesting.’—Publishers’ Circular.

THE LIFE AND TRAVELS OF MUNGO PARK IN AFRICA. With Illustrations, Introduction, and concluding chapter on the Present Position of Affairs in the Niger Territory. 2/

‘Few books of travel have acquired so speedy and extensive a reputation as this of Park’s.’—Thomas Carlyle.

‘A notable work well worthy of recommendation.’—Birmingham Gazette.

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TWO ROYAL LIVES: Queen Victoria, William I., German Emperor. 2/

FOUR GREAT PHILANTHROPISTS: Lord Shaftesbury, George Peabody, John Howard, J. F. Oberlin. Illustrated. 2/

Shows the good accomplished through the agency of the lives and labours of a noble Earl, a millionaire, a prison reformer, and the humble pastor of the remote Ban de la Roche.

TWO GREAT AUTHORS. Lives of Scott and Carlyle. 2/

‘Youthful readers will find these accounts of the boyhood and youth of two of the three Scotch literary giants full of interest.’—Schoolmaster.

EMINENT ENGINEERS. Lives of Watt, Stephenson, Telford, and Brindley. 2/

‘All young persons should read it, for it is in an excellent sense educational. It were devoutly to be wished that young people would take delight in such biographies.’—Indian Engineer.

TALES OF THE GREAT AND BRAVE. By Margaret Fraser Tytler. 2/

A collection of interesting biographies and anecdotes of great men and women of history, in the style of Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather, written by a niece of the historian of Scotland.

THROUGH STORM AND STRESS. By J. S. Fletcher. With Frontispiece by W. S. Stacey. 2/

‘Full of excitement and incident.’—Dundee Advertiser.

GREAT WARRIORS: Nelson, Wellington, Napoleon. 2/

‘One of the most instructive books published this season.’—Liverpool Mercury.

HEROIC LIVES: Livingstone, Stanley, General Gordon, Lord Dundonald. 2/

‘It would be difficult to name four other lives in which we find more enterprise, adventure, achievement.... The book is sure to please.’—Leeds Mercury.

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THE REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF WALTER TRELAWNEY, Parish ’Prentice of Plymouth, in the year of the Great Armada. Re-told by J. S. Fletcher, author of Through Storm and Stress, &c. With Frontispiece by W. S. Stacey. 2/

‘A wonderfully vivid story of the year of the Great Armada; far more effective than the unwholesome trash which so often does duty for boys’ books nowadays.’—Idler.

FIVE VICTIMS: a School-room Story. By M. Bramston, author of Boys and Girls, Uncle Ivan, &c. With Frontispiece by H. A. Bone. 2/

‘A delightful book for children. Miss Bramston has told her simple story extremely well.’—Associates’ Journal.

SOME BRAVE BOYS AND GIRLS. By Edith C. Kenyon, author of The Little Knight, Wilfrid Clifford, &c. 2/

‘A capital book: will be read with delight by both boys and girls.’—Manchester Examiner.

ELIZABETH, or Cloud and Sunshine. By Henley I. Arden, author of Leather Mill Farm, Aunt Bell, &c. With Frontispiece by Herbert A. Bone. 2/

‘This is a charming story, and in every way suitable as a gift-book or prize for girls.’—Schoolmaster.

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LIFE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Illustrated. 2/

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EMINENT WOMEN, and Tales for Girls. Illustrated. 2/

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AILIE GILROY. By W. Chambers, LL.D. 2/

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MARITIME DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE. Illustrated. 2/

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SKETCHES, LIGHT AND DESCRIPTIVE. By W. Chambers, LL.D. 2/

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RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MEN. 1/6

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EXPERIENCES OF A BARRISTER. 1/6

Eleven tales embracing experiences of a barrister and attorney.

BEGUMBAGH, a Tale of the Indian Mutiny. 1/6

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THE BUFFALO HUNTERS, and other Tales. 1/6

Fourteen short stories reprinted from Chambers’s Journal.

TALES OF THE COASTGUARD, and other Stories. 1/6

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THE CONSCRIPT, and other Tales. 1/6

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THE DETECTIVE OFFICER, by ‘Waters;’ and other Tales. 1/6

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FIRESIDE TALES AND SKETCHES. 1/6

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THE GOLD-SEEKERS, and other Tales. 1/6

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THE HOPE OF LEASCOMBE, and other Stories. 1/6

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THE ITALIAN’S CHILD, and other Tales. 1/6

Fifteen short stories from Chambers’s Journal.

JURY-ROOM TALES. 1/6

Entertaining stories by James Payn, G. M. Fenn, and others.

KINDNESS TO ANIMALS. By W. Chambers, LL.D. 1/6

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THE MIDNIGHT JOURNEY. By Leitch Ritchie; and other Tales. 1/6

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OLDEN STORIES. 1/6

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Patience was sitting idly crooning a monotonous wailing sound to which she put no words. From A Daughter of the Klephts, by Mrs Isabella Fyvie Mayo; price 3s. 6d. P. 148

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THE RIVAL CLERKS, and other Tales. 1/6

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ROBINSON CRUSOE. By Daniel Defoe. 1/6

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PARLOUR TALES AND STORIES. 1/6

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THE SQUIRE’S DAUGHTER, and other Tales. 1/6

Fifteen short stories from Chambers’s Journal.

TALES FOR HOME READING. 1/6

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TALES OF ADVENTURE. 1/6

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TALES OF THE SEA. 1/6

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TALES AND STORIES TO SHORTEN THE WAY. 1/6

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TALES FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY. 1/6

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HOME-NURSING. By Rachel A. Neuman. Paper, 1/; cloth, 1/6

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WALLACE AND BRUCE: Heroes of Scotland. By Mary Cochrane, L.L.A. Illustrated. 1/

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: the Story of his Life and Times. By Evan J. Cuthbertson. With Portrait and numerous Illustrations. 1/

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QUEEN VICTORIA: the Story of her Life and Reign. 1/

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LORD SHAFTESBURY AND GEORGE PEABODY. Being the Story of Two Great Public Benefactors. With Portraits. 1/

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WILLIAM I., GERMAN EMPEROR, AND HIS SUCCESSORS. By Mary Cochrane, L.L.A. Illustrated. 1/

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THOMAS CARLYLE: the Story of his Life and Writings. 1/

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THOMAS ALVA EDISON: the Story of his Life and Inventions. By E. C. Kenyon. 1/

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THE STORY OF WATT AND STEPHENSON. 1/

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THE STORY OF NELSON AND WELLINGTON. 1/

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GENERAL GORDON AND LORD DUNDONALD: the Story of Two Heroic Lives. 1/

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LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY: the Story of the opening up of the Dark Continent. 1/

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COLUMBUS AND COOK: the Story of their Lives, Voyages, and Discoveries. 1/

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THE STORY OF THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. By Robert Chambers, LL.D. Revised, with additions, including the Autobiography. 1/

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THE STORY OF HOWARD AND OBERLIN. 1/

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THE STORY OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. 1/

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PERSEVERANCE AND SUCCESS: the Life of William Hutton. 1/

STORY OF A LONG AND BUSY LIFE. By W. Chambers, LL.D. 1/

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WONDERFUL STORIES FOR CHILDREN. By Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Mary Howitt. Illustrated. 1/

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A FAIRY GRANDMOTHER; or, Madge Ridd, a Little London Waif. By L. E. Tiddeman, author of A Humble Heroine. 1/

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THE CHILDREN OF MELBY HALL. By M. and J. M’Kean. Illustrated. 1/

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A HUMBLE HEROINE. By L. E. Tiddeman. 1/

BABY JOHN. By the author of Laddie, Tip-Cat, Rose and Lavender, &c. With Frontispiece by H. A. Bone. 1/

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THE GREEN CASKET; LEO’S POST-OFFICE; BRAVE LITTLE DENIS. By Mrs Molesworth. 1/

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JOHN’S ADVENTURES: a Tale of Old England. By Thomas Miller, author of Boy’s Country Book, &c. 1/

THE BEWITCHED LAMP. By Mrs Molesworth. With Frontispiece by Robert Barnes. 1/

ERNEST’S GOLDEN THREAD. 1/

LITTLE MARY, and other Stories. By L. T. Meade. 1/

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WILFRID CLIFFORD, or The Little Knight Again. By Edith C. Kenyon. With Frontispiece by W. S. Stacey. 1/

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ZOE. By the author of Tip-Cat, Laddie, &c. 1/

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UNCLE SAM’S MONEY-BOX. By Mrs S. C. Hall. 1/

THEIR HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS. By Edna Lyall, author of Donovan, &c. 1/

FIRESIDE AMUSEMENTS; a Book of Indoor Games. 1/

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THE STEADFAST GABRIEL: a Tale of Wichnor Wood. By Mary Howitt. 1/

GRANDMAMMA’S POCKETS. By Mrs S. C. Hall. 1/

THE SWAN’S EGG. By Mrs S. C. Hall. 1/

MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY, and LIFE OF A SAILOR BOY. 1/

DUTY AND AFFECTION, or the Drummer-boy. 1/

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FAMOUS POETRY. Being a collection of the best English verse. Illustrated. 1/

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THE LITTLE CAPTIVE KING.

FOUND ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

ALICE ERROL, and other Tales.

THE WHISPERER. By Mrs S. C. Hall.

TRUE HEROISM, and other Stories.

PICCIOLA, and other Tales.

TWELFTH NIGHT KING.

JOE FULWOOD’S TRUST.

PAUL ARNOLD.

CLEVER BOYS.

THE LITTLE ROBINSON.

MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY.

MY BIRTHDAY BOOK.

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GERALD AND DOT. By Mrs Fairbairn.

KITTY AND HARRY. By Emma Gellibrand, author of J. Cole.

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