The Complete Scout
Edited by MORLEY ADAMS, with numerous Illustrations and Diagrams.
This is a book intended primarily for boy scouts, but it also possessesan interest for all boys who like out-of-door amusements and scoutinggames. It contains many articles by different writers on the variouspursuits and branches of study that scouts are more particularlyinterested in, such as wood-craft, tracking, the weather, and so on, andthe book should form a sort of cyclopedia for many thousands of boys whohail Baden-Powell as Chief Scout.
By D. H. PARRY
Kit of the Carabineers
or, A Soldier of Marlborough's. Illustrated in Colour by ARCHIBALDWEBB.
This story tells how Kit Dawnay comes under the notice of the Duke ofMarlborough while the latter is on a visit to Kit's uncle, Sir JasperDawnay, an irritable, miserly old man, suspected, moreover with goodreason, of harbouring Jacobite plotters and of being himself favourableto the cause of the exiled Stuarts.
Kit, instructed by the Duke, is able to frustrate a scheme for theassassination of King William as he rides to Hampton Court, and theKing, in return for Kit's service, gives him a cornet's commission inthe King's Carabineers. He goes with the army to Flanders, takes partin the siege of Liege; accompanies Marlborough on those famous forcedmarches across Europe, whereby the great leader completely hoodwinkedthe enemy; and is present at the battle of Blenheim, where he winsdistinction.
"The story bristles with dramatic incident, and the thrilling adventureswhich overtake the young hero, Kit Dawnay, are enough to keep onebreathless with excitement."--_Bookman_.
By W. H. G. KINGSTON
Hurricane Hurry
Coloured Illustrations by ARCHIBALD WEBB.
This is one of W. H. G. Kingston's best books in the sense that it hasan atmosphere of reality about it, and reads like the narrative of onewho has actually passed through all the experiences described; and thisis no mere illusion, for the author states in his preface that thematerial from which the story was built up was put into his hands by awell-known naval officer, who afterwards rote to the position ofadmiral. Mr. Hurry enters the navy as midshipman a few years before theoutbreak of the American War of Independence, and during that war hedistinguishes himself both on land and sea.
Will Weatherhelm
Coloured Illustrations by ARCHIBALD WEBB.
A splendid tale of the sea, full of incident and adventure, and afirst-rate account of the sailor's life afloat in the days of thepress-gang and the old wooden walls.. The author reveals his own ardentlove of the sea and all that pertains to it, and this story embodies atrue ideal of patriotic service.