12mo. Cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents. IN APPLETONS’ TOWN AND COUNTRY LIBRARY. =The Gentleman Pensioner.= The scene of this admirable historical romance is laid in the tumultuous England of the sixteenth century, at the time when the plots of the partisans of Mary Stuart against Elizabeth seemed to be approaching a culmination. The hero, Queen Elizabeth’s confidential messenger, has a trust to execute which involves a thrilling series of adventures. This stirring romance has been compared to “A Gentleman of France,” and it is safe to say that no reader will find in its pages any reason for flagging interest or will relinquish the book until the last page has been reached. =The Key of the Holy House.= A Romance of Old Antwerp. “A romance of Antwerp in the days of the Spanish oppression. Mr. Lee handles it in vigorous fashion.”--_London Spectator._ “This is a fascinating specimen of the historical romance at its best, the romance which infuses energetic life into the dry facts of history.”--_Philadelphia Press._ BOOKS BY FRANK T. BULLEN. =The Log of a Sea-Waif.= Being Recollections of the first Four Years of my Sea Life. Illustrated. Uniform Edition. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. The brilliant author of “The Cruise of the Cachalot” and “Idylls of the Sea” presents in this new work the continuous story of the actual experiences of his first four years at sea. In graphic and picturesque phrases he has sketched the events of voyages to the West Indies, to Bombay and the Coromandel coast, to Melbourne and Rangoon. Nothing could be of more absorbing interest than this wonderfully vivid account of foks’l humanity, and the adventures and strange sights and experiences attendant upon deep-sea voyages. It is easy to see in this book an English companion to our own “Two Years before the Mast.” =Idylls of the Sea.= 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. “The ‘deep-sea wonder and mystery’ which Kipling found in Frank T. Bullen’s ‘Cruise of the Cachalot’ is appreciable again in this literary mate’s new book, ‘Idylls of the Sea.’ We feel ourselves tossed with him at the mercy of the weltering elements,” etc.--_Philadelphia Record._ “Amplifies and intensifies the picture of the sea which Mr. Bullen had already produced.... Calm, shipwreck, the surface and depths of the sea, the monsters of the deep, superstitions and tales of the sailors--all find a place in this strange and exciting book.”--_Chicago Times-Herald._ =The Cruise of the Cachalot,= Round the World after Sperm Whales. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $ 1.50. “It is immense--there is no other word. I’ve never read anything that equals it in its deep-sea wonder and mystery, nor do I think that any book before has so completely covered the whole business of whale fishing, and, at the same time, given such real and new sea pictures. I congratulate you most heartily. It’s a new world you’ve opened the door to.”--_Rudyard Kipling._