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'A pleasant story.... It is a book for girls, and grown people will also enjoy reading it.'--_Athenaeum_.

'A pleasant, well-written, interesting story, likely to be acceptable to young people who are in their teens.'--_Scotsman_.

GILES'S MINORITY; or, Scenes at the Red House. With 8 Ill.u.s.trations.

16mo. 2_s_. 6_d_.

'In one of our former reviews we praised ”Deborah's Drawer.” ”Giles's Minority” no less deserves our goodwill. It is a picture of school-room life, and is so well drawn that grown-up readers may delight in it. In literary excellence this little book is above most of its fellows.'--_Times_.

DOLL WORLD; or, Play and Earnest. A Study from Real Life. With 8 Ill.u.s.trations. By C. A. Saltmarsh. 16mo. 2_s_. 6_d_.

'It is a capital child's book, and it has a charm for grown-up people also, as the fairy haze of ”long-ago” brightens every page. We are not ashamed to confess to the ”thrilling interest” with which we followed the history of ”Robertina” and ”Mabel.”'--_Athenaeum_.

DEBORAH'S DRAWER. With 9 Ill.u.s.trations. 16mo. 2_s_. 6_d_.

'Any G.o.dmamma who wishes to buy an unusually pretty and artistically-written gift-book for an eight-year-old pet cannot do better than spend a florin or two on the contents of ”Aunt Deborah's Drawer.”'--_Athenaeum_.

DAISY'S COMPANIONS; or, Scenes from Child Life. A Story for Little Girls. With 8 Ill.u.s.trations. 3rd Edit. 16mo. 2_s_. 6_d_.

'If anybody wants a pretty little present for a pretty (and good) little daughter, or a niece or grand-daughter, we cannot recommend a better or tastier one than ”Daisy's Companions.”'--_Times_.

_Captain Marryats Books for Boys_.

Uniform Ill.u.s.trated Edition, neatly bound in cloth, post 8vo.

3_s_. 6_d_. each; gilt edges, 4_s_. 6_d_.

POOR JACK. With Sixteen

THE SETTLERS IN CANADA.

Ill.u.s.trations after Designs by

With Ill.u.s.trations by Clarkson Stanfield, R.A.

Gilbert and Dalziel.

THE MISSION; or, Scenes in

THE PRIVATEERSMAN.

Africa. With Ill.u.s.trations by

Adventures by Sea and Land in John Gilbert.

Civil and Savage Life One THE PIRATE, AND THREE

Hundred Years Ago. Ill.u.s.trated CUTTERS. With Memoir of the

with Eight Steel Engravings.

Author, and 20 Steel Engravings

MASTERMAN READY; or, the by Clarkson Stanfield, R.A.

Wreck of the Pacific.

Cheap Edition, without

Embellished with Ninety-three Ill.u.s.trations, 1_s_. 6_d_.

Engravings on Wood.

A BOY'S LOCKER. A Smaller Edition of Captain Marryat's Books for Boys, in 12 vols. Fcap. 8vo. in a compact cloth box, 21_s_.

_By Hans Christian Andersen_.

FAIRYTALES AND SKETCHES. Translated by C. C. Peachey, H. Ward, A.

Plesner, &c. With 104 Ill.u.s.trations by Otto Speckter and others. Crown 8vo. 6_s_.

'The translation most happily hits the delicate quaintness of Andersen--most happily transposes into simple English words the tender precision of the famous story-teller; in a keen examination of the book we scarcely recall a single phrase or turn that obviously could have been bettered.'--_Daily Telegraph_.