hool, and their ordinary home or school adventures. Among the
best are--

Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain.

and

Bevis By Richard Jefferies.

Others are--

The Story of a Bad Boy By T. B. Aldrich.
My Boyhood " H. C. Barkley.
The Swan and her Crew " G. C. Davies.
Captain Chap " Frank R. Stockton.
The Tinkham Brothers' Tidemill " J. T. Trowbridge.

The best school story will probable always be

Tom Brown's School Days By T. Hughes.

Among the books of this kind meant rather for grownup readers, but
read also by boys, are--

Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain.
Frank Fairlegh " F. E. Smedley.
The Interpreter " Whyte Melville.
The Human Boy " Eden Phillpots.
Vice Versa " F. Anstey.

Adventure Stories

This is the largest group of books usually described as "for boys,"
although girls often read them too with hardly less interest. The
first place in this class will probably always be held by Defoe's

Robinson Crusoe,

and it is likely that most votes for second place would go to

The Swiss Family Robinson.

After these we come to modern authors whose books have been written
especially for boys, first among whom is the late Mr. R. M.
Ballantyne, the author of, among numerous other books,

The Coral Island.
The Gorilla Hunters.
The Dog Crusoe.
The Pirate City.
Ungava.
The Wild Man of the West.
The Iron Horse.
Fighting the Flames.
Erling the Bold.
Martin Rattler.
The Fur Traders.
The Red Man's Revenge.

Many of Ballantyne's readers make a point of going through the whole
series of his books. The other titles can be collected from the
advertisement pages at the end of these volumes. With R. M. Ballantyne
is usually associated the name of the late W. H. G. Kingston
("Kingston and Ballantyne the brave," Stevenson called them in the
verses at the beginning of _Treasure Island_, another book which comes
high in this section). Kingston's stories were also very numerous, but
it will serve our purpose here to mention only the following six:--

Peter the Whaler.
The Three Midshipmen.
The Three Lieutenants.