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Blackie & Son's Books for Young People, Catalogue - 1898
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"The story, from the critical moment of the killing of the sacred
cat to the perilous exodus into Asia with which it closes, is very
skilfully constructed and full of exciting adventures. It is admirably
illustrated."--_Saturday Review._
=Maori and Settler:= A Story of the New Zealand War. By G. A.
HENTY. With 8 page Illustrations by ALFRED PEARSE.
5_s._
"It is a book which all young people, but especially boys, will read
with avidity."--_Athenæum._
"A first-rate book for boys, brimful of adventure, of humorous
and interesting conversation, and of vivid pictures of colonial
life."--_Schoolmaster._
=St. George for England:= A Tale of Cressy and Poitiers. By G.
A. HENTY. Illustrated by GORDON BROWNE. 5_s._
"A story of very great interest for boys. In his own forcible style
the author has endeavoured to show that determination and enthusiasm
can accomplish marvellous results; and that courage is generally
accompanied by magnanimity and gentleness."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
=The Bravest of the Brave:= With Peterborough in Spain. By G.
A. HENTY. With 8 full-page Pictures by H. M. PAGET.
5_s._
"Mr. Henty never loses sight of the moral purpose of his work--to
enforce the doctrine of courage and truth, mercy and lovingkindness, as
indispensable to the making of an English gentleman. British lads will
read _The Bravest of the Brave_ with pleasure and profit; of that we
are quite sure."--_Daily Telegraph._
=For Name and Fame:= or, Through Afghan Passes. By G. A.
HENTY. Illustrated by GORDON BROWNE. 5_s._
"Not only a rousing story, replete with all the varied forms of
excitement of a campaign, but, what is still more useful, an account
of a territory and its inhabitants which must for a long time possess
a supreme interest for Englishmen, as being the key to our Indian
Empire."--_Glasgow Herald._
=A Jacobite Exile:= Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in
the Service of Charles XII. of Sweden. By G. A. HENTY.
With 8 page Illustrations by PAUL HARDY, and a Map. 5_s._
"Incident succeeds incident, and adventure is piled upon adventure,
and at the end the reader, be he boy or man, will have experienced
breathless enjoyment in a romantic story that must have taught him much
at its close."--_Army and Navy Gazette._
=Held Fast for England:= A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar. By
G. A. HENTY. Illustrated by GORDON BROWNE. 5_s._
"Among them we would place first in interest and wholesome educational
value the story of the siege of Gibraltar.... There is no cessation of
exciting incident throughout the story."--_Athenæum._
BY G. A. HENTY.
"Mr. Henty's books are always alive with moving incident."--_Review of
Reviews._
_In crown 8vo, cloth elegant._
=Condemned as a Nihilist:= A Story of Escape from Siberia. By
G. A. HENTY. Illustrated by WALTER PAGET. 5_s._
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