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Blackie & Son's Books for Young People, Catalogue - 1891
Blackie & Son
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"Here the Rye-House Plot serves as the groundwork for a romantic
love episode, whose true characters are lifelike beings, not dry
sticks as in many historical tales."--_Graphic._
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Dora: Or, A Girl without a Home. By Mrs. R. H. READ. With 6 page
Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3_s._ 6_d._
"It is no slight thing, in an age of rubbish, to get a story so
pure and healthy as this."--_The Academy._
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Life's Daily Ministry: A Story of Everyday Service for Others. By Mrs.
E. R. PITMAN. With 4 page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3_s._
6_d._
"Shows exquisite touches of a master hand. She depicts in graphic
outline the characteristics of the beautiful and the good in
life."--_Christian Union._
My Governess Life: Or, Earning my Living. By Mrs. E. R. PITMAN. With 4
page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3_s._ 6_d._
"Full of sound teaching and bright examples of character."--_S.S.
Chronicle._
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BLACKIE'S NEW THREE-SHILLING SERIES.
Beautifully Illustrated and Handsomely Bound.
_NEW VOLUMES._
Menhardoc: A Story of Cornish Nets and Mines. By G. MANVILLE FENN.
With 6 page Illustrations by C. J. STANILAND, R.I. _New Edition._
Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3_s._
"They are real living boys, with their virtues and faults. The
Cornish fishermen are drawn from life, they are racy of the soil,
salt with the sea-water, and they stand out from the pages in
their jerseys and sea-boots all sprinkled with silvery pilchard
scales."--_Spectator._
Yussuf the Guide: Or, The Mountain Bandits. A Story of Strange
Adventure in Asia Minor. By G. MANVILLE FENN. With 6 page
Illustrations by J. SCHOeNBERG. _New Edition._ Crown 8vo, cloth extra,
3_s._
"This story is told with such real freshness and vigour that the
reader feels he is actually one of the party, sharing in the fun
and facing the dangers with them."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
Robinson Crusoe. With 100 Illustrations by GORDON BROWNE. _New
Edition._ Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3_s._
"One of the best issues, if not absolutely the best, of Defoe's
work which has ever appeared."--_The Standard._
Gulliver's Travels. With 100 Illustrations by GORDON BROWNE. _New
Edition._ Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3_s._
"Mr. Gordon Browne is, to my thinking, incomparably the most
artistic, spirited, and brilliant of our illustrators of books for
boys, and one of the most humorous also, as his illustrations of
'Gulliver' amply testify."--_Truth._
Patience Wins: or, War in the Works. By GEORGE MANVILLE FENN. With 6
page Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, cloth extra, 3_s._
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