=Cousin Geoffrey and I.= By CAROLINE AUSTIN. With 6 page Illustrations by W. PARKINSON. 3_s._ “Miss Austin’s story is bright, clever, and well developed.”--_Saturday Review._ [Illustration: _Reduced Illustration from “Cousin Geoffrey”._] =Girl Neighbours=: or, The Old Fashion and the New. By SARAH TYTLER. Illustrated by C. T. GARLAND. 3_s._ “One of the most effective and quietly humorous of Miss Sarah Tytler’s stories. It is very healthy, very agreeable, and very well written.”--_The Spectator._ =The Rover’s Secret=: a Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba. By HARRY COLLINGWOOD. With 6 page Illustrations by W. C. SYMONS. 3_s._ “_The Rover’s Secret_ is by far the best sea story we have read for years, and is certain to give unalloyed pleasure to boys.”--_Saturday Review._ =The Congo Rovers=: A Story of the Slave Squadron. By HARRY COLLINGWOOD. With 6 page Illustrations. 3_s._ “No better sea story has lately been written than the _Congo Rovers_. It is as original as any boy could desire.”--_Morning Post._ BLACKIE’S HALF-CROWN SERIES. _Illustrated by eminent Artists. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant._ =A Daughter of Erin.= By VIOLET G. FINNY. “Extremely well written; the characters are cleverly drawn and the individual interest sustained to the end. It is a book we can thoroughly recommend, not only to girls, but to all who like a well-written healthy toned story.”--_St. James’s Gazette._ =Nell’s School-days.= By H. F. GETHEN. “A simple and natural picture of young life, and inculcates in an unostentatious way lessons of thoughtfulness and kindness.”--_Spectator._ =The Luck of the Eardleys.= By SHEILA E. BRAINE. “One of the cleverest books we have read for a long time. The authoress combines wit, humour, and pathos in a delightful manner, and understands how to portray character, for all her men, women, boys and girls glow with life and colour”--_The Record._ =Picked up at Sea=: or, The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek. By JOHN C. HUTCHESON. =The Search for the Talisman=: A Story of Labrador. By HENRY FRITH. “We pity the boy who cannot read every page of this capital story.”--_School Guardian._ =Marooned on Australia.= By ERNEST FAVENC. “A remarkably interesting and well-written story of travel and adventure in the Great Southern Land.”--_School Guardian._ =The Secret of the Australian Desert.= By ERNEST FAVENC. “We recommend the book most heartily; it is certain to please boys and girls, and even some grown-ups.”--_Guardian._ =My Friend Kathleen.= By JENNIE CHAPPELL. =A Girl’s Kingdom.= By M. CORBET-SEYMOUR. “The story is bright, well told, and thoroughly healthy and good.”--_Ch. Bells._ =Laugh and Learn=: The Easiest Book of Nursery Lessons and Nursery Games. By JENNETT HUMPHREYS. “One of the best books of the kind imaginable, full of practical teaching in word and picture, and helping the little ones pleasantly along a right royal road to learning.”--_Graphic._