Descriptive of the career of a young schoolmistress in Northern Italy, and of the manners and customs of the folk dwelling in the valley of Fiorasca. The lonely life of the Dutchwoman, Fransje, who has married Benedetto Balli, and the good deeds she does, form a touching picture that is full of pathos. BY THE AUTHOR OF "STARWOOD HALL" THE GOLDEN BUCKLE By the Author of "Starwood Hall," "Peckover’s Mill," &c. With Five Full-page Illustrations by W. S. STAGEY. Bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 3s. 6d. A story of London in the year of the Great Plague, showing how one John Garside, a hosier in Holborn, and his family took refuge on board The Golden Buckle, which was then lying in the river with a cargo of sugar and spice, and of the various things that befell them and theirs during the long hot summer. BY C. R. COLERIDGE MAX, FRITZ, AND HOB By C. R. COLERIDGE, Author of "The Green Girls of Greythorpe" &c. With Four Full-page Illustrations by W. S. STAGEY. Bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 3s. A tale of adventure four hundred years ago. The scene is laid principally at the Castle of Lindenberg, in the Bavarian highlands, and the story is chiefly concerned with the doings of two cousins, named Max and Fritz, and of a tame bear, which they have christened Hob. The book inculcates some admirable lessons on the duty of kindness to animals. BY M. & C. LEE ST. DUNSTAN’S FAIR By M. & C. LEE, Authors of "The Family Coach," &c. With Three Full-page Illustrations by W. S. STACEY. Bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 2s. 6d. "St. Dunstan’s Fair" tells of the folks living in a small country village in Kent, in the year of Waterloo, of what happened at the Fair itself, and of the consequences to Nancy Springett and poor George Colgate. The account of the visit paid by Molly and Chris to their grandfather, Mr. Openshaw, and of the part played by the two children, lend the story considerable variety of interest. BY MARY H. DEBENHAM MOOR AND MOSS By MARY H. DEBENHAM, Author of "For King and Home," &c. With Three Full-page Illustrations by W. S. STAGEY. Bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 2s. 6d. A story of the Border in the first half of the sixteenth century, of the struggles that were for ever taking place, and the raids that were being made, and (in particular) of the Armstrongs of Birkhope and the Musgraves of Fairgill, and how peace and happiness were at last brought to all. BY M. BRAMSTON THE ADVENTURES OF DENIS By M. BRAMSTON, Author of "Abby’s Discoveries," &c. With Three Full-page Illustrations by J. F. WEEDON. Bevelled boards, cloth gilt, price 2s. 6d.