"One of the best issues, if not absolutely the best, of Defoe's work which has ever appeared."--_The Standard._ THE LIFE AND SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. BY DANIEL DEFOE. Beautifully Printed, and Illustrated by above 100 Pictures Designed by Gordon Browne. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, 6_s._ There have been countless editions of "Robinson Crusoe," and they have mostly been imperfect, inasmuch as they have been so largely altered from the original text that the language in many instances has not been that of Defoe but of his revisers. The present volume has been carefully printed from the original edition, and all obsolete or little known terms and obscure phrases are explained in brief foot-notes. The "Editing" is not a corruption or pretended improvement of Defoe's great work. "The best edition I have come across for years. If you know a boy who has not a 'Robinson Crusoe,' just glance at any one of the hundred illustrations in this edition and you will go no further afield in search of a present for that fortunate youth."--_Truth._ "Of the many editions of Defoe's immortal story that have passed through our hands in recent years, we are inclined to rank this the most desirable as a present for a good boy. Gordon Browne's illustrations satisfy the high expectation we had formed from his work of last year."--_The Academy._ "One may be pardoned for growing enthusiastic over the ideal edition which Messrs. Blackie have published this season. Well printed, handsomely bound, and beautifully illustrated, the volume may well become the standard edition of Defoe's evergreen work."--_Edinburgh Courant._ BY HARRY COLLINGWOOD. "Mr. G. A. Henty has found a formidable rival in Mr. Collingwood."--_Academy._ THE CONGO ROVERS: A Tale of the Slave Squadron. By HARRY COLLINGWOOD. With 8 full-page Illustrations by J. SCHÖNBERG, in black and tint. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 5_s_. The scene of this tale is laid on the west coast of Africa, and in the lower reaches of the Congo; the characteristic scenery of the great river being delineated with wonderful accuracy and completeness of detail. The hero of the story--a midshipman on board one of the ships of the slave squadron--after being effectually laughed out of his boyish vanity, develops into a lad possessed of a large share of sound common sense, the exercise of which enables him to render much valuable service to his superior officers in unmasking a most daring and successful ruse on the part of the slavers. There is the true flavour of salt water, the true scent of the sea-breeze in every page, while not a single expression or suggestion is to be found throughout the book to which the most fastidious reader could object. THE PIRATE ISLAND: