wholesome corrective of a somewhat lax home training.
"A book which no well-regulated school-boy should be
without."--_Whitehall Review._
LEON GOLSCHMANN
Boy Crusoes: A Story of the Siberian Forest. Adapted from the
Russian by LEON GOLSCHMANN.
With 6 page Illustrations by J. FINNEMORE, R.I. 3s. 6d.
Two Russian lads are so deeply impressed by reading _Robinson
Crusoe_ that they run away from home. They lose their way in a
huge trackless forest, and for two years are kept busy hunting
for food, fighting against wolves and other enemies, and
labouring to increase their comforts, before they are rescued.
"This is a story after a boy's own heart."--_Nottingham
Guardian._
MEREDITH FLETCHER
Every Inch a Briton: A School Story. With 6 page Illustrations by SYDNEY
COWELL. 3s. 6d.
This story is written from the point of view of an ordinary boy,
who gives an animated account of a young public-schoolboy's
life. No moral is drawn; yet the story indicates a kind of
training that goes to promote veracity, endurance, and
enterprise; and of each of several of the characters it might be
truly said, he is worthy to be called, "Every Inch a Briton".
"In _Every Inch a Briton_ Mr. Meredith Fletcher has scored a
success."--_Manchester Guardian._
EDGAR PICKERING
In Press-Gang Days. With 4 illustrations by W. S. STACEY. 2s. 6d.
_New Edition._
In this story Harry Waring is caught by the Press-gang and
carried on board His Majesty's ship _Sandwich_. He takes part in
the mutiny of the Nore, and shares in some hard fighting on
board the _Phoenix_. He is with Nelson, also, at the storming of
Santa Cruz, and the battle of the Nile.
"It is of Marryat, that friend of our boyhood, we think as we
read this delightful story; for it is not only a story of
adventure, with incidents well-conceived and arranged, but
the characters are interesting and
well-distinguished."--_Academy._
FRED SMITH
The Boyhood of a Naturalist. With 6 page Illustrations. 3s. 6d. _New
Edition._
Few lovers of Nature have given to the world a series of
recollections so entertaining, so vigorous, and so instinct with
life as these delightful reminiscences. The author takes the
reader with him in the rambles in which he spent the happiest
hours of his boyhood, a humble observer of the myriad forms of
life in field and copse, by stream and hedgerow.
"We cannot too h
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