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e Year. Founded on Selected Passages of Scripture from the Old and New Testaments. Small 4to. 6s. 6d. *** This volume is on a plan and arrangement of its own, in order to secure, as much as may be, variety and comprehension. FAMILY PRAYERS. Small crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. By M.L.M. DAWSON. FAMILY PRAYERS FOR A MONTH. Demy 8vo, 1s. 6d. DAILY PRAYERS FOR BUSY HOMES. 16mo, 6d. LONDON: JAMES NISBET & CO., 21 BERNERS STREET, W. +WORKS BY R.M. BALLANTYNE+. * * * * * "In his tales of the sea, of the forest and the flames, and in all that he writes, there is a fidelity to nature and a knowledge of many paths of life which are not surpassed by any author in his special field of literature."--_Morning Post_. _With Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 5s. each_. NEW VOLUME. +THE BUFFALO RUNNERS+. A TALE OF THE RED RIVER PLAINS. +CHARLIE TO THE RESCUE+. A TALE or THE SEA AND THE ROCKIES. "In 'Charlie to the Rescue' Mr. Ballantyne supplies his constituency --which is now a large and well-satisfied one--with a sufficiency of battles, sieges, and escapes; the troubles of ranchmen, whose lives are threatened both by white and by black scoundrels, are admirably reproduced. It is a capital story."--_Spectator_. +BLOWN TO BITS+; Or, THE LONELY MAN OF RAKATA. A TALE OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. "A capital story, written in the author's old style, and full of life and action from beginning to end."--_Standard_. "The book abounds in matter of exceptional interest, and should find its way into the hands of all young people who would properly estimate the wide-spreading and far-reaching influences and the extraordinary character of the Krakatoa outburst."--_Manchester Courier_. +BLUE LIGHTS+; Or, HOT WORK IN THE SOUDAN. A TALE OF SOLDIER LIFE IN SEVERAL OF ITS PHASES. "An exciting story, full of excellent moral lessons."--_School Board Chronicle_. "We heartily recommend 'Blue Lights'."--_Guardian_. "The soldier's career is graphically depicted, and the story is every way a good one."--_Literary Churchman_. _Works by R.M. Ballantyne-continued. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 5s. each_. THE FUGITIVES; Or, THE TYRANT QUEEN OF MADAGASCAR. "There is plenty of adventure in the shape of imprisonment and combats with men and animals, and a negro and a sailor between them supply a comic element of the best quality. Everything considered, this is one of
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