RICHARD DARE’S VENTURE Or Striking Out for Himself. OLIVER BRIGHT’S SEARCH Or The Mystery of a Mine. TO ALASKA FOR GOLD Or The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon. PRESS OPINIONS OF EDWARD STRATEMEYER’S BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. “In ‘Richard Dare’s Venture,’ Edward Stratemeyer has fully sustained his reputation as an entertaining, helpful, and instructive writer for boys.”――_Philadelphia Call._ “‘Richard Dare’s Venture,’ by Edward Stratemeyer, tells the story of a country lad who goes to New York to earn enough to support his widowed mother and orphaned sisters. Richard’s energy, uprightness of character, and good sense carry him through some trying experiences, and gain him friends.”――_The Churchman_, New York. “A breezy boy’s book is ‘Oliver Bright’s Search.’ The author has a direct, graphic style, and every healthy minded youth will enjoy the volume.”――_N. Y. Commercial Advertiser._ “‘Richard Dare’s Venture’ is a fresh, wholesome book to put into a boy’s hands.”――_St. Louis Post Dispatch._ “‘Richard Dare’s Venture’ is a wholesome story of a practical boy who made a way for himself when thrown upon his own resources.”――_Christian Advocate._ “It is such books as ‘Richard Dare’s Venture’ that are calculated to inspire young readers with a determination to succeed in life, and to choose some honorable walk in which to find that success. The author, Edward Stratemeyer, has shown a judgment that is altogether too rare in the makers of books for boys, in that he has avoided that sort of heroics in the picturing of the life of his hero which deals in adventures of the daredevil sort. In that respect alone the book commends itself to the favor of parents who have a regard for the education of their sons, but the story is sufficiently enlivening and often thrilling to satisfy the healthful desires of the young reader.”――_Kansas City Star._ “Of standard writers of boys’ stories there is quite a list, but those who have not read any by Edward Stratemeyer have missed a very goodly thing.”――_Boston Ideas._ _For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent, postpaid, on receipt of price by_ LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, BOSTON. THE SHIP AND SHORE SERIES By EDWARD STRATEMEYER. Three Volumes. Cloth. Illustrated. Price per volume, $1.00. THE LAST CRUISE OF THE SPITFIRE Or Luke Foster’s Strange Voyage. REUBEN STONE’S DISCOVERY Or The Young Miller of Torrent Bend. TRUE TO HIMSELF Or Roger Strong’s Struggle for Place. (_In press._) PRESS OPINIONS OF EDWARD STRATEMEYER’S BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. “Mr. Edward Stratemeyer is in danger of becoming very popular among the young people of the country.”――_Burlington_ (Iowa) _Hawk-eye_.