CHAP. 1. FIDDLE-DE-DEE! A STORY OF HISTORY AND MYSTERY. 2. VICTOR’S PONY: A STORY OF THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR. 3. ‘TO-MORROW’: A STORY OF THE HOLIDAYS. 4. ALL BY HIMSELF: A STORY OF THE HIGHLANDS. 5. OLD SCORES: A STORY OF THE CRIMEA. 6. CHARLEY: A STORY OF MEMORY. 7. BLACK AND WHITE: A STORY OF THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER. 8. THE WATCH: A STORY OF CHRISTMAS TIME. 9. OUR SUNDAY AT HOME: A GIRL’S STORY. “Mr. Hope is a scholar, and his wide knowledge and culture give his books a _cache_ of their own.”—_Journal of Education._ “We like Mr. Hope’s stories. They are fresh and healthy and vigorous. They can inspire no evil thought; they must encourage to good efforts; they are never dull; they are always amusing. A volume of stories of which this can be truthfully said needs no further commendation.”—_Scotsman._ “If we must choose one story as being particularly good, it will be ‘Victor’s Pony.’ It is very clever and dramatic.”—_Saturday Review._ “There is an old saying, that we must not tell tales out of school, but no schoolboy will quarrel with Mr. Ascott Hope for having broken the rule.”—_Literary Churchman._ “No school library can be complete while Mr. Ascott Hope’s books are not in circulation.”—_Derbyshire Mercury._ “The nine stories which make up this volume, without being of the too-goody sort, have one and all an instructive tendency which does not in the least diminish the interest both boys and girls will take in perusing them. Though these tales are more especially written for boys, not a few girls would read them with unmixed pleasure.”—_British Mail._ “Excellent samples of what this ready writer can achieve. Not a story in this collection of nine drags or ends tediously. This is just the book for boys.”—_Christian World._ “Mr. Hope thoroughly understands what kind of stories boys want, and what will please them. The various stories recounted in this new volume are all related in Mr. Hope’s inimitable way.”—_Nonconformist._ ☞ _For Mr. Hope’s “Young Days of Authors,” see page 3._ _MR. MORWOOD’S NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS._ From the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “I am directed by the Literature Committee to inform you that Mr. Morwood’s books (‘Facts and Phases of Animal Life’ and ‘Wonderful Animals’) are calculated greatly to promote the objects of this Society, and, therefore, it is our earnest hope that they will be purchased by all lovers of animals for circulation among young persons, and in public institutions.—JOHN COLAM, Secretary.” WITH SEVENTY-FIVE WOOD ENGRAVINGS. Small crown 8vo., 288 pp., cloth, price 2s. 6d.; gilt edges, 3s. =Facts and Phases of Animal Life, and the= Claims of Animals to Humane Treatment. With Original and Amusing Anecdotes. By VERNON S. MORWOOD, Lecturer to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. CHAP.