story which reads like the most fascinating fiction,
but is really the genuine history of the sufferings and adventures
of a young Protestant."
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, LONDON.
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Every Boy's Bookshelf.
_A New Series of Eighteenpenny Stories for Boys, full of stirring
adventure. Each with two illustrations in colours and coloured medallion
on cover. Large crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 1s. 6d._
+SKYLARK: His Deeds and Adventures.+ By M. GENESTE. With two coloured
illustrations by W. E. WIGFULL. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 1s. 6d.
Skylark, so named from his propensity for 'larking' and practical
joking, is not only a favourite at school on account of his sunny
disposition, but a real influence for good because of the uniform
'straightness' of his conduct. His adventures include a fire at the
school, in which he nearly perishes, and being kidnapped and
carried off to France, having stumbled on evidence tending to
identify the authors of a burglary. Altogether the book is full of
incident.
+CAVE PERILOUS: A Tale of the Bread Riots.+ By L. T. MEADE. With two
coloured illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 1s. 6d.
A very brightly written tale, full of incident and adventure, of
English life nearly a century ago.
_The Scotsman_ says: 'A spirited and interesting tale of adventure
in which a boy and girl, shut up in a wild cave, but sustained by a
sturdy piety, contrive not only to extricate themselves, but to
discover and recover a lost parent who had been kidnapped. It is
written with a catching vivacity, and is sure to be a favourite
with young readers.'
+THE TURQUOISE RING.+ By IDA LEMON. With two coloured illustrations. Crown
8vo, cloth gilt, 1s. 6d.
A brightly written story that will hold the boy reader's attention
all through. It is full of incident, and is told with the author's
well-known skill.
+OLD SCHOOLFELLOWS AND WHAT BECAME OF THEM.+ With two coloured
illustrations by J. H. VALDA. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 1s. 6d.
A book that will delight both old and new schoolfellows. A number
of old schoolfellows find themselves established not far from each
other, and form a society for relating their own adventures and the
adventures of schoolmates known to them. The stories are capitally
told, and in the Captain's Story, t
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