: A Tale of Bush Life in Australia. By G. A.
HENTY. With full-page Illustrations by W. B. WOLLEN. 12mo, cloth,
price $1.00.
The hero, a young English lad, after rather a stormy boyhood,
emigrates to Australia, and gets employment as an officer in the
mounted police. A few years of active work on the frontier, where he
has many a brush with both natives and bushrangers, gain him
promotion to a captaincy, and he eventually settles down to the
peaceful life of a squatter.
"Mr. Henty has never published a more readable, a more carefully
constructed, or a better written story than this."--_Spectator._
Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main. By G. A. HENTY.
With full-page Illustrations by GORDON BROWNE. 12mo, cloth, price
$1.00.
A story of the days when England and Spain struggled for supremacy
of the sea. The heroes sail as lads with Drake in the Pacific
expedition, and in his great voyage of circumnavigation. The
historical portion of the story is absolutely to be relied upon, but
this will perhaps be less attractive than the great variety of
exciting adventure through which the young heroes pass course of
their voyages.
"A book of adventure, where the hero meets with experience
enough, one would think, to turn his hair gray."--_Harper's
Monthly Magazine._
By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War. By G. A. HENTY. With
full-page Illustrations by GORDON BROWNE. 12mo, cloth, price $1.00.
The author has woven, in a tale of thrilling interest, all the
details of the Ashanti campaign, of which he was himself a witness.
His hero, after many exciting adventures in the interior, is detained
a prisoner by the king just before the outbreak of the war, but
escapes, and accompanies the English expedition on their march to
Coomassie.
"Mr. Henty keeps up his reputation as a writer of boys' stories.
'By Sheer Pluck' will be eagerly read."--_Athenaeum._
By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic. By G.
A. HENTY. With full-page Illustrations by MAYNARD BROWN, and 4 Maps.
12mo, cloth, price $1.00.
In this story Mr. Henty traces the adventures and brave deeds of an
English boy in the household of the ablest man of his age--William
the Silent. Edward Martin, the son of an English sea-captain, enters
the service of the Prince as a volunteer, and is employed by him in
many dangerous and responsible missions, in the discharge of which he
passes through the great sieges of the ti
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