Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their TimesBrooks, Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter)
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Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
Brooks, Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter)
Biography -- Juvenile literature; Boys -- Biography
The pictures are by Gordon Browne, whose name is a guarantee for the
artistic quality of the work. Almost every page is illustrated, and the
little reader can thus follow the story step by step by the pictures, and
will be able to relate the tale to the younger members of the nursery by
the aid of the illustrations alone. The pictures are not merely
decorative, they are graphic character illustrations of a quaint and
humorous kind which will be equally relished by young and old. The
pictures form of themselves a story, and while sufficiently literal to be
easily read, they at the same time possess that quality of suggestiveness
which is only associated with work of a creative order.
The stories have been delightfully retold by LAURA E. RICHARDS, a lady who
has the rare faculty of investing the purest romance with that air of
realism which is so full of charm to children.
#THE SHILLING SERIES OF BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.#
Square 16mo, neatly bound in cloth extra. Each book contains 128 pages and
a Coloured Illustration.
"Quality is not sacrificed to quantity, the stories one and all
being of the highest, and eminently suited for the purposes of
gift books for either day or Sabbath schools."--_Schoolmaster._
ALF JETSAM: or Found Afloat. By Mrs. GEORGE CUPPLES.
Alf Jetsam is a little boy who is cast ashore from a wreck on the coast of
England. He is adopted and brought up by a kind old fisherman and his
wife. Eventually he goes to sea, and after many voyages finds his parents.
The story of his adventures is charmingly told.
THE REDFORDS: An Emigrant Story. By Mrs. GEORGE CUPPLES.
The story of an English family forced to leave their pleasant country home
and face the hardships of pioneer life in New Zealand. The many haps and
mishaps which befell them will excite the deepest interest in youthful
readers, who will learn in the perusal many a lesson of patience and
fortitude.
MISSY. By F. BAYFORD HARRISON.
A tale of joyous child-life in the country. The pranks of Missy and Ernest
Dacre with their dog Don are sure to please the "little ones," while the
story of Missy's fault will teach the lesson of sincerity and
truthfulness.
HIDDEN SEED: or a Year in a Girl's Life. By EMMA LESLIE.
A brightly told story of a girl who on her fifteenth birthday resolves to
make herself useful in the world; but who, forgetting that her home where
she is needed is her proper sphere of action, is betrayed into
worldliness, while her simple loving cousin Isabel, without pretension or
self-consciousness, delights in serving those near her and in making them
happy.
URSULA'S AUNT. By ANNIE S. FENN.
The fresh and simple narrative of the troubles of two girls, who make a
not uncommon mistake in thinking they are not beloved by their guardian,
and of the manner in which they discover the truth by means of a great
sorrow, which, however, turns to as great a joy.
JACK'S TWO SOVEREIGNS. By ANNIE S. FENN.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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