"Adventures well worth the telling. The book is extremely entertaining as well as useful, and there is a wonderful freshness in the Roman scenes and characters."--_The Times._ * * * * * The Seven Wise Scholars. By ASCOTT R. HOPE. With nearly 100 Illustrations by GORDON BROWNE. Cloth elegant, 5_s._ "As full of fun as a volume of _Punch_; with illustrations, more laughter-provoking than most we have seen since Leech died."--_Sheffield Independent._ Stories of Old Renown: Tales of Knights and Heroes. By ASCOTT R. HOPE. With 100 Illustrations by GORDON BROWNE. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3_s._ 6_d._ "A really fascinating book worthy of its telling title. There is, we venture to say, not a dull page in the book, not a story which will not bear a second reading."--_Guardian._ * * * * * BY G. NORWAY. A True Cornish Maid. By G. NORWAY. With 6 page Illustrations by J. FINNEMORE. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3_s._ 6_d._ This is a story of the Cornish coast at a time when the press-gang brought terror into all its seaports, and smuggling was an everyday practice. The heroine of the tale is sister to a young fellow who gets into trouble in landing a contraband cargo, and shooting the officer in charge of the press-gang. In this extremity she stands by her brother bravely, and by means of her daring scheme he manages to escape. There is abundance of stirring incident in this tale; the characters are all natural, and the tone is altogether breezy and wholesome. Hussein the Hostage: Or, A Boy's Adventures in Persia. By G. NORWAY. With 8 page Illustrations by JOHN SCHOeNBERG. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, 5_s._ "_Hussein the Hostage_ is full of originality and vigour. The characters are lifelike, there is plenty of stirring incident, the interest is sustained throughout, and every boy will enjoy following the fortunes of the hero."--_Journal of Education._ The Loss of John Humble: What Led to It, and what Came of It. By G. NORWAY. With 8 page Illustrations by JOHN SCHOeNBERG. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, 5_s._ "This story will place the author at once in the front rank. It is full of life and adventure. He is equally at home in his descriptions of life in Sweden and in the more stirring passages of wreck and disaster, and the interest of the story is sustained without a break from first to last."--_Standard._ * * * * * BY HARRY COLLINGWOOD. The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific. By HARRY COLLINGWOOD. With 8 page Pictures by C. J. STANILAND and J. E. WELLS. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, 5_s._ "A capital story of the sea; indeed in our opinion the author is superior in some respects as a marine novelist to the better known Mr. Clark Russell."--_The Times._