"This is a story after a boy's heart, treating of smugglers and family feuds and French privateers."--_Spectator_. Humphrey Bold: His Chances and Mischances by Land and Sea. Illustrated In Colour by W. H. MARGETSON. In this story are recounted the many adventures that befell Humphrey Bold of Shrewsbury, from the time when, a puny slip of a boy, he was befriended by Joe Punchard, the cooper's apprentice (who nearly shook the life out of his tormentor, Cyrus Vetch, by rolling him down the Wyle Cop in a barrel), to the day when, grown into a sturdy young giant, he sailed into Plymouth Sound as first lieutenant of the _Bristol_ frigate. The intervening chapters teem with exciting incidents, telling of sea-fights with that redoubtable privateer Duguay Trouin; of Humphrey's escape from a French prison; of his voyage to the West Indies and all the perils he encountered there. "Mr. Strang is undoubtedly the best writer of this class of story that we have to-day. He has never done anything better than 'Humphrey Bold.'"--_Newcastle Chronicle_. "Undoubtedly one of the strongest historical stories we ever remember to have read."--_Schoolmaster_. Palm Tree Island. Illustrated in Colour by ARCHIBALD WEBB. In this story two boys are left on a volcanic island in the South Seas, destitute of everything but their clothes. The story relates how they provided themselves with food and shelter, with tools and weapons; how they fought with wild dogs and sea monsters; and how, when they have settled down to a comfortable life under the shadow of the volcano, their peace is disturbed by the advent of savages and a crew of mutinous Englishmen. The savages are driven away; the mutineers are subdued through the boys' ingenuity; and they ultimately sail away in a vessel of their own construction. In no other book has the author more admirably blended amusement with instruction. "Written so well that there is not a dull page in the book."--_The World_. Rob the Ranger: A Story of the Fight for Canada. With Illustrations in Colour and Maps. Rob Somers, son of an English settler in New York State, sets out with Lone Pete, a trapper, in pursuit of an Indian raiding party which has destroyed his home and carried off his younger brother. He is captured and taken to Quebec, where he finds his brother in strange circumstances, and escapes with him in the dead of the winter, in company with a little band of stout-hearted New Englanders. General Baden-Powell, in recommending books to the Boy Scouts, places "Rob the Ranger" first among the great scouting stories. One of Clive's Heroes A Story of the Fight for India With Illustrations in Colour and Maps.