So exciting and engrossing that it must be mentioned, but bringing the reader into rough company, among a good many horrors. =133. Tom Brown’s School Days.= By T. HUGHES. (Macmillan) 2_s._ or 6_d._ The life is so fresh and wholesome in spirit that, though the sphere is so different from that of the elementary school-boy, his tone may be raised by it. =134. Ascott Hope’s Tales.= These are too numerous and have too many different publishers for enumeration, but all are lively and wholesome tales of boyhood mostly in school life, and are good to lend and give. =135. The Crofton Boys.= By HARRIET MARTINEAU. (Routledge) 1_s._ and 1_s._ 6_d._ (With 40 illustrations, 2_s._) A very attractive story of a brave little boy at school, who loses his foot by an accident, and resolutely conceals the name of the perpetrator. =136. Follow the Leader.= By TALBOT B. REED. (Cassell) 5_s._ Another public-school story, sound and spirited, and likely to interest. People sometimes learn best from what does not profess to be about their own life. =137. In Quest of Gold on the Whanga Falls.= By C. H. JOHNSTONE. (Cassell) 3_s._ 6_d._ Exciting Australian adventures. It is to be hoped they will not inspire the gold fever, for which, however, ‘True Gold’ (see No. 602) may be an antidote. =138. The Boy with an Idea.= By Mrs. EILOART. (Warne) 2_s._ 6_d._ An inventive genius, always getting into exquisitely droll predicaments, some of which are quite fit to do duty at a penny reading. =139. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.= By JULES VERNE. Two parts. (Low) Cloth 3_s._ 6_d._, boards, 2 parts, 1_s._ each. =140. The Mysterious Island.= Three parts. (Low) Cloth 2_s._, boards 1_s._ each. =141. The Earth to the Moon and a Trip round it.= (Low) Cloth 2_s._, boards 1_s._ each. =142. Five Weeks in a Balloon.= (Low) Cloth 2_s._, boards 1_s._ =143. Dr. Ox’s Experiment.= (Low) Cloth 2_s._, boards 1_s._ =144. The Steam House.= (Low) Two parts. Cloth 2_s._, boards 1_s._ each. Jules Verne is a modern Baron Munchausen with an air of science and a Frenchman’s ironical gravity. To some he is perfectly enchanting, but there are soberer minds who are bewildered as to whether the wonders they read of are meant for truth or fiction, and dislike him accordingly. We have only mentioned a small selection of his translated works, but all are perfectly safe, for he is a religious, sound-hearted man. ‘Dr. Ox’s Experiment’ is short enough for a penny reading among intelligent people. =145. Ben Sylvester’s Word.= (See No. 55.) =146. Frank’s Debt.= By C. M. YONGE. (Walter Smith) 3_d._ The dull rude lad raised by better surroundings. =147. The Little Duke.= (See No. 488.) =148. The Caged Lion.= (See No. 410.) 6_s._ =149. Harry and Archie.= (See No. 254.) =150. Pickle and his Page Boy.= (See No. 30.) =151. For Fortune and Glory, a Story of the Soudan War.= By LEWIS HOUGH. (Cassell) 5_s._