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_Morning Leader_.--”One of the best boys' stories we have ever read.”

Jack Hardy:

or, A Hundred Years Ago.

Ill.u.s.trated by W. RAINEY, R.I. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 2s. 6d.

The old smuggling days! What visions are called up by the name--of stratagems, and caves, and secret pa.s.sages, and ding-dong fights between st.u.r.dy seamen and das.h.i.+ng King's officers! It is in these brave days of old that Mr. Herbert Strang has laid the scenes of his story ”Jack Hardy.” Jack is a bold young middy who, in the course of his duty to the King, falls into all manner of difficulties and dangers: has unpleasant experiences in a French prison, escapes by sheer daring and ingenuity, and turns the tables on his captors in a way that will make every British boy's heart glow.

_Athenaeum_.--”Herbert Strang is second to-none in graphic power and veracity.... Here is the best of characterisation in bold outline.”

_HERBERT STRANG'S HISTORICAL SERIES_

This new series is quite unique. Its aim is to encourage a taste for history in boys and girls up to fourteen years of age by giving all the important events and movements of a reign or period intermingled with a rousing story of adventure. While the stories are worth reading for their own sakes, they are also worth reading--especially on the eve of an examination--by a boy or girl who in cla.s.s or in school text-book has worked up the ”dry history” of the period. Each volume contains, besides the story, a general summary, a chronological list of important events, and a map. Much care has been devoted to the ”get-up” of these books. They contain about 160 pages each, with four beautiful ill.u.s.trations in full colour. Cloth, 1s. 6d. each.

In the New Forest: A Story of the Reign of William the Conqueror.

Lion Heart: A Story of the Reign of Richard I.

Claud the Archer: A Story of the Reign of Henry V.

One of Rupert's Horse: A Story of the Reign of Charles I.

With the Black Prince: A Story of the Reign of Edward III.

A Mariner of England: A Story of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.

With Marlborough to Malplaquet: A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne.

_Practical Teacher_.--”These Stories, which are bright and stirring, are sufficiently simple to be within the grasp of the children, the descriptions of life and manners are accurate, and the history of the period is interwoven in a skilful manner.”

By CAPTAIN CHARLES GILSON

The Lost Empire

A Tale of Many Lands.

Ill.u.s.trated in Colour by CYRUS CUNEO. With Map. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, 6s.

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