Condemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape from SiberiaHenty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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Condemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape from Siberia
Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Escapes -- Fiction; Russia -- History -- Alexander II, 1855-1881 -- Fiction; Siberia (Russia) -- Fiction
Hal Marchant is in Cuba before the commencement of hostilities.
A Spaniard who has been frustrated in an attempt to rob Hal's
employer attacks the hacienda and is defeated, but turns the
tables by denouncing Hal as a spy. The hero makes good his
escape from Santiago, and afterwards fights for America both on
land and at sea. The story gives a vivid and at the same time
accurate account of this memorable struggle.
"Just the kind of book that a boy would delight
in."--_Schoolmaster._
FREDERICK HARRISON
The Boys of Wynport College. With 6 Illustrations by HAROLD COPPING.
3s. _New Edition._
The hero and his chums differ as widely in character as in
personal appearance. We have Patrick O'Fflahertie, the
good-natured Irish boy; Jack Brookes, the irrepressible
humorist; Davie Jackson, the true-hearted little lad, on whose
haps and mishaps the plot to a great extent turns; and the hero
himself, who finds in his experiences at Wynport College a
wholesome corrective of a somewhat lax home training.
"A book which no well-regulated school-boy should be
without."--_Whitehall Review._
LEON GOLSCHMANN
Boy Crusoes: A Story of the Siberian Forest. Adapted from the
Russian by LEON GOLSCHMANN.
With 6 page Illustrations by J. FINNEMORE, R.I. 3s. 6d.
Two Russian lads are so deeply impressed by reading _Robinson
Crusoe_ that they run away from home. They lose their way in a
huge trackless forest, and for two years are kept busy hunting
for food, fighting against wolves and other enemies, and
labouring to increase their comforts, before they are rescued.
"This is a story after a boy's own heart."--_Nottingham
Guardian._
MEREDITH FLETCHER
Every Inch a Briton: A School Story. With 6 page Illustrations by SYDNEY
COWELL. 3s. 6d.
This story is written from the point of view of an ordinary boy,
who gives an animated account of a young public-schoolboy's
life. No moral is drawn; yet the story indicates a kind of
training that goes to promote veracity, endurance, and
enterprise; and of each of several of the characters it might be
truly said, he is worthy to be called, "Every Inch a Briton".
"In _Every Inch a Briton_ Mr. Meredith Fletcher has scored a
success."--_Manchester Guardian._
EDGAR PICKERING
In Press-Gang Days. With 4 illustrations by W. S. STACEY. 2s. 6d.
_New Edition._
In this story Harry Waring is caught by the Press-gang and
carried on board His Majesty's ship _Sandwich_. He takes part in
the mutiny of the Nore, and shares in some hard fighting on
board the _Phoenix_. He is with Nelson, also, at the storming of
Santa Cruz, and the battle of the Nile.
"It is of Marryat, that friend of our boyhood, we think as we
read this delightful story; for it is not only a story of
adventure, with incidents well-conceived and arranged, but
the characters are interesting and
well-distinguished."--_Academy._
FRED SMITH
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