A Selected List of New and Recent Publications from Messrs. Frederick Warne & Co.'s Catalogue.
NEW ILLUSTRATED BOOKS FOR BOYS.
The Orchid Seekers. A Story of Adventure in Borneo. By AshmoreRussan and Fredk. Boyle. With Sixteen Original Illustrations by AlfredPearse and M.F. Hartley. In large crown 8vo, cloth gilt, bevelledboards, price 5s.
"Boys will be grateful to the joint authors.... No reader can complainof lack of interest or sensation in the narrative...."--_DailyTelegraph._
"A capital story of adventure, such as would delight most boys, andgratify many of their elders.... Written with great spirit. Theauthors are to be congratulated on producing a story full of thrillingincident without violating probabilities."--_Saturday Review._
The Riders; or, Through Forest and Savannah with the "Red Cockades."By Ashmore Russan and Fredk. Boyle. With Twenty-six OriginalIllustrations by Alfred Pearse. In large crown 8vo, cloth gilt,bevelled boards, price 5s.
"Most daring and attractive story of travel, peril, and adventure. Thebook is of higher literary class than many of its rivals, and as apresent for a youth of mature age cannot well be beaten."--_DailyTelegraph._
Young Tom Bowling. A Story of the Boys of the British Navy. By J.C.Hutcheson. Fully Illustrated by J.B. Greene. In large crown 8vo, clothgilt, bevelled boards, price 5s.
"It is a spirited and adventurous tale about several brave boys of theBritish Navy, who, besides getting through a multitude of monkey tricksaboard a man-of-war, see some 'sarvice' in administering to the Arabslave-traders that correction which these inhuman monsters so richlydeserve. The book has a number of excellent pictures."--_Scotsman._
"As a sea-yarn, with plenty of rollicking fun, exciting adventure, andplay of varied character, it should commend itself to all boy-readers.Mr. Hutcheson has skilfully contrived to give as a background to thestory a very true and vivid and convincing description of the duties,occupations, and routine work of the boys of the British Navy, and it isthis element in the book which gives it an importance beyond that of amere story of adventure."--_Daily Mail._
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