The _Fitzroy_, a small sailing vessel, discovers an extraordinary island in the South Seas, that has been hidden for ages behind a wide belt of sea-weed. The country is peopled by descendants of colonists from Imperial Rome, and by a yet older race who trace their origin to the long-lost Atlantis. In graphic language the author describes the strange experiences that befell the crew of the _Fitzroy_ among these remarkable people. “A tale of unprecedented adventure in unknown lands.... Boys will revel in the book.”—_Birmingham Gazette_. R. STEAD Grit will Tell: The Adventures of a Barge-boy. With 4 Illustrations by D. CARLETON SMYTH. Cloth, 2_s._ 6_d._ A lad whose name has been lost amidst early buffetings by hard fortune suffers many hardships at the hands of a bargeman, his master, and runs away. The various adventures and experiences with which he meets on the road to success, the bear-hunt in which he takes part, and the battle at which he acts as war correspondent, form a story of absorbing interest and after a boy’s own heart. “A thoroughly wholesome and attractive book.”—_Graphic_. HARRY COLLINGWOOD The Pirate Island. With 6 page Illustrations by C. J. STANILAND and J. R. WELLS. 3_s._ _New Edition._ By a deed of true gallantry the hero’s whole destiny is changed, and, going to sea, he forms one of a party who, after being burned out of their ship in the South Pacific, are picked up by a pirate brig and taken to the “Pirate Island”. After many thrilling adventures, they ultimately succeed in effecting their escape. “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.”—_Times_. FLORENCE COOMBE Boys of the Priory School. With 4 page Illustrations by HAROLD COPPING. 2_s._ 6_d._ The interest centres in the relations of Raymond and Hal Wentworth, and the process by which Raymond, the hero of the school, learns that in the person of his ridiculed cousin there beats a heart more heroic than his own. “It is an excellent work of its class, cleverly illustrated with ‘real boys’ by Mr. Harold Copping.”—_Literature_. JOHN C. HUTCHESON Afloat at Last: A Sailor Boy’s Log. With 6 page Illustrations by W. H. OVEREND. 3_s._ 6_d._ From the stowing of the vessel in the Thames to her recovery from the Pratas Reef on which she is stranded, everything is described with the accuracy of perfect practical knowledge of ships and sailors; and the incidents of the story range from the broad humours of the fo’c’s’le to the perils of flight from, and fight with, the pirates of the China Seas. “As healthy and breezy a book as one could wish.”—_Academy_. Blackie & Son’s Story Books for Girls -------------- KATHARINE TYNAN A Girl of Galway. With 8 full-page Illustrations by JOHN H. BACON. 6_s._