"No story more attractive ... by reason of its breezy freshness and unforced pathos, as well as for the wholesome practical lessons it conveys."--_Christian Leader._ MADGE'S MISTAKE. A Recollection of Girlhood. By ANNIE E. ARMSTRONG. With 2 coloured Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 1_s._ 6_d._ This is a lively, interesting little story, the characters are well marked, and the plot, although simple, is so well worked out as to lead the reader, young or old, on to the last word. "Will please the eye and the fancy of girls, for its illustrations are as excellent as its letterpress."--_Academy._ "We cannot speak too highly of this delightful little tale. It is charmingly written, and abounds in interesting and laughable incidents."--_Bristol Times._ THE PATRIOT MARTYR: And other Narratives of Female Heroism in Peace and War. With 2 Coloured Illustrations. 192 pp., cloth extra, 1_s._ 6_d._ "It should be read with interest by every girl who loves to learn what her sex can accomplish in times of difficulty and danger."--_Bristol Times._ THE HAPPY LAD. A Story of Peasant Life in Norway. From the Norwegian of Björnstjerne Björnson. With Frontispiece in colours. Crown 8vo, 192 pp., cloth extra, 1_s._ 6_d._ "This pretty story has a freshness and natural eloquence about it such as are seldom met with in our home made tales. It seems to carry us back to some of the love stories of the Bible."--_Aberdeen Free Press._ THE SHILLING SERIES OF BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Square 16mo, neatly bound in cloth extra. Each book contains 128 pages and a coloured Illustration. "The whole of the set will be found admirably adapted for the use of the young. The books, well printed and elegantly bound in cloth, are a marvel of cheapness."--_Journal of Education._ "They are unusually good, and are calculated to produce sound, wholesome, moral effects."--_Glasgow Herald._ OLIVE MOUNT. By ANNIE S. FENN. A bright and sparkling story about a family of boys and girls left, through the death of both parents, to the charge of their eldest brother. For a time the children fairly run riot in the pleasant country-side at Olive Mount; till the wholesome discipline of sorrow and the gentle influence of Miss Orpen their governess, lead them to find enjoyment in doing what is right. A LITTLE ADVENTURER. By GREGSON GOW. Tells how little Tommy Treffit started off to search for his father in Australia. How he hid himself on board a vessel bound for Madeira, and how, after many adventures, he at last found his father, not in Australia, but safe at home. TOM WATKINS' MISTAKE. By EMMA LESLIE. Tom Watkins, having given way to the temptation to commit acts of petty pilfering in the carpenter's shop where he is apprenticed, ultimately suffers the consequences of his wrong-doing, and not only learns that honesty is the best policy, but comes to see the sinfulness of his conduct.