_Containing 10 full-page Illustrations by RALPH PEACOCK. Crown 8vo. Cloth. Gilt edges._ Price 5/ [Illustration: Reduced specimen Illustration.] OUTLINE OF STORY. “The author presents to boys a valuable picture of life in Northumbria thirteen hundred years ago. The scene is laid in the neighbourhood of York. The early chapter affords a picture of the life, education, and pleasures of boys of the time. While engaged in a hunting expedition the four boy heroes, with three companions, are captured by sea robbers, taken abroad, and fall into the hands of a trader who takes them to Rome and sells them as slaves. Deacon Gregory buys three of them, two boys are purchased by Pamphronius, and two by another Roman.”—_Standard._ A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON. A PRISONER OF FRANCE BEING THE REMINISCENCES OF THE LATE CAPTAIN CHARLES BOOTHBY, R.E. _In Square Crown 8vo. Printed on Light Paper, with Deckled Edges, and bound in Buckram. Price 6s._ _Containing a Frontispiece Portrait of the Author, and several small Illustrations from Pen-and-ink Sketches in the Author’s journals._ “We cordially recommend this charming bit of autobiography. A page of it is worth a whole sackful of the trumpery trash which figures in the publishers’ advertisements as the historical novel.”—_Daily News._ “Exceptionally interesting on account of the details which it supplies concerning the manner in which he was treated.”—_Glasgow Herald._ “A very vivid picture of military life in the Peninsula.”—_Speaker._ “It is impossible to read his diary without liking a man who made so light of trouble, and who bore himself so gallantly in captivity.”—_Standard._ “The cheerfulness with which he writes throughout is singularly refreshing.”—_Academy._ “It will be read with eager interest.... The narrative often reads like romance, but the author had too high a sense of probity to palm off fiction for actual personal experience.”—_Scotsman._ “A very engrossing story.... It abounds in interesting anecdote and in intelligent observation.”—_The Broad Arrow._ “These Memoirs thoroughly justify their publication, and they will be perused by students of military history with considerable advantage as well as keen enjoyment.”—_St. James’s Gazette._ “‘A Prisoner of France’ should be in the hands of all young soldiers, for it is a manual of soldierly kindness and fine humanity.”—_Vanity Fair._ A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON. A BRITISH RIFLE MAN THE JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF MAJOR GEORGE SIMMONS, RIFLE BRIGADE, DURING THE PENINSULAR WAR AND THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO _In Square Crown 8vo. Printed on Light Paper, with Deckled Edges. Price 10s. 6d._ _Containing 3 Sketch Maps._ “Altogether this is a most attractive book, bringing back vividly to the memory one of the most brilliant periods of English military history, and giving a pleasant, because unintentional, picture of a gallant soldier and gentleman.”—_Standard._