"_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. In crown 8vo, cloth elegant._ =Marooned on Australia,= being the Narration of Diedrich Buys of his Discoveries in Terra Australis Incognito about the year 1630. By ERNEST FAVENC. "A remarkably interesting and well-written story of travel and adventure in the Great Southern Land."--_School Guardian._ =My Friend Kathleen.= By JENNIE CHAPPELL. "A pleasantly-written story for elder girls, who will admire Kathleen's courage, and learn much from her nobility of character."--_Board Teacher._ =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._ =Reefer and Rifleman:= A Tale of the Two Services. By Lieut.-Col. PERCY-GROVES. "A good, old-fashioned, amphibious story of our fighting with the Frenchmen in the beginning of our century, with a fair sprinkling of fun and frolic."--_Times._ =A Musical Genius.= By the Author of the "Two Dorothys". "It is brightly written, well illustrated, and daintily bound, and can be strongly recommended as a really good prize-book."--_Teachers' Aid._ =For the Sake of a Friend:= A Story of School Life. By MARGARET PARKER. "An excellent school-girl story.... Susie Snow and her friend, Trix Beresford, are charming girls."--_Athenæum._ =Under the Black Eagle.= By ANDREW HILLIARD. "The rapid movement of the story, and the strange scenes through which it passes, give it a full interest of surprise and adventure."--_Scotsman._ =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._ =A Golden Age:= A Story of Four Merry Children. By ISMAY THORN. Illustrated by GORDON BROWNE. "Ought to have a place of honour on the nursery shelf."--_The Athenæum._ BY BEATRICE HARRADEN. =Things Will Take a Turn.= By BEATRICE HARRADEN. With 44 Illustrations by JOHN H. BACON. "Perhaps the most brilliant is _Things Will Take a Turn_.... A tale of humble child life in East London. It is a delightful blending of comedy and tragedy, with an excellent plot."--_The Times._