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Folks' History of England," "Young Folks' History of Ireland," etc. Price 50 cents. "To tell the story of a nation like ours in a nutshell, requires a peculiar faculty for selecting, condensing, and philosophizing. The brevity with which he relates the principal events in American history, does not detract from the charming interest of the narrative style."--_Public Opinion._ _Young People's History of England_ By GEORGE MAKEPEACE TOWLE. Cloth, illustrated. $1.50. "The whole narrative is made interesting and attractive--in every way what a book of this kind should be in its clearness of statement, freshness of style, and its telling of the right ways."--_Critic._ _Handbook of English History_ Based on "Lectures on English History," by the late M. J. GUEST, and brought down to the year 1880. With a Supplementary Chapter on the English Literature of the 19th Century. By F. H. UNDERWOOD, LL.D. With Maps, Chronological Table, etc. $1.50. "It approaches nearer perfection than anything in the line we have seen. It is succinct, accurate, and delightful."--_Hartford Evening Post._ _Young People's History of Ireland_ By GEORGE MAKEPEACE TOWLE, author of "Young People's History of England," "Young Folks' Heroes of History," etc. With an introduction by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY. Cloth, illustrated. $1.50. "The history is like a novel, increasing in interest to the very end, and terminating at the most interesting period of the whole; and the reader lays down the book a moment in enthusiastic admiration for a people who have endured so much, and yet have retained so many admirable characteristics."--_N.Y. World._ * * * * * _Sold by all booksellers, and sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price_ =LEE AND SHEPARD Publishers Boston= YOUNG FOLKS' BOOKS OF TRAVEL * * * * * DRIFTING ROUND THE WORLD; A Boy's Adventures by Sea and Land By CAPT. CHARLES W. HALL, author of "Adrift in the Ice-Fields," "The Great Bonanza," etc. With numerous full-page and letter-press illustrations. Royal 8vo. Handsome cover. $1.75. Cloth,
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