The story is an exceedingly good one, and has interested me very much, but my especial admiration has been for the extremely intelligent and careful elucidation it contains of the methods and operations of the service. You have made it accurate, and interesting and valuable. It conveys certainly as good an idea of the operations of the Life-Saving Service as anything I have ever read. I might almost say the best. The illustrations are excellent, and taking the book all in all you may well have pride in it. (S. J. KIMBALL, General Superintendent Life-Saving Service.) ... Puts in the form of a story the obscure daring of the noble American coast-guard service full of heroic daring and of the victories of peace.--_Churchman._ This is one of the best books of this season, or any season. The book is well made, and the subject is one of intense interest. The Life-Saving Service to which it relates, is a great and noble work, the extent and value of which, perhaps, few understand.--_Living Church._ "The Life Savers" is a fascinating and instructive story of the United States Life-Saving Service.--_Boston Beacon._ THE LOBSTER CATCHERS. A Story of the Coast of Maine. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, illustrated $1.50 It is a description of the way the lobster fishery is carried on, told in the form of a story, which is full of stirring incidents other than those connected with the subject proper. The author knows how to tell a good story, and this is really one of his best.--_Boston Transcript._ The boy who prefers rather to look around him than backward, if he chances to live by the seashore, may be commended to James Otis's "Lobster Catchers, a Story of the Coast of Maine." Mr. Otis's book has a flavor of the salt sea and touches of realism in it that are certain to make it attractive.--_Churchman._ A lively yarn for the boys about coast and fishing life. Will give landsmen a good idea of some phases of existence at the shore. Handsomely issued. Will sustain the writer's popularity.--_Congregationalist._ This story of the coast of Maine describes the lobster industry, and shows how it was made to serve the purposes of a lad who was sadly in need of money, helping him on in a life of good, honest work and happiness. Mr. Otis's books are always right in tone, and likely to encourage boys in straight-forward endeavor rather than dazzle them by tales of marvellous good luck.--_Christian Register._ AN AMATEUR FIREMAN.--Illustrated by WM. M. CARY. 12mo, 326 pages, cloth, gilt top $1.50 ... A lively tale in which are depicted the wonderful machinery of the New York Fire Department and the human life that throbs with the machine. A first-rate story is mingled with the descriptive text, and the fortunes of the Amateur will absorb the interest of every reader.--_Book Buyer._