“‘The Last Cruise of the Spitfire’ is of deep interest to the bounding heart of an enthusiastic boy. The book leaves a good impression on a boy’s mind, as it teaches the triumph of noble deeds and true heroism.”――_Kansas City_ (Mo.) _Times_. “Let us mention in passing two admirable books for boys, ‘Reuben Stone’s Discovery’ and ‘Oliver Bright’s Search,’ by Edward Stratemeyer, with whom we are all acquainted. This last bit of his work is especially good, and the boy who gets one of these volumes will become very popular among his fellows until the book is worn threadbare.”――_N.Y. Herald._ “A good sea-tale for boys is ‘The Last Cruise of the Spitfire,’ by Edward Stratemeyer. There is plenty of adventure in it, a shipwreck, a cruise on a raft, and other stirring perils of the deep.”――_Detroit_ (Mich.) _Journal_. “In a simple, plain, straightforward manner, Mr. Edward Stratemeyer endeavors to show his boy readers what persistency, honesty, and willingness to work have accomplished for his young hero, and his moral is evident. Mr. Stratemeyer is very earnest and sincere in his portraiture of young character beginning to shape itself to weather against the future. A book of this sort is calculated to interest boys, to feed their ambition with hope, and to indicate how they must fortify themselves against the wiles of vice.”――_Boston Herald._ _For sale by all booksellers, or sent, postpaid, on receipt of price by_ LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, BOSTON. WAR AND ADVENTURE STORIES. By EDWARD STRATEMEYER. _Author of the Famous “Old Glory Series,” “Bound to Succeed Series,” “Ship and Shore Series,” etc._ FIRST VOLUME. BETWEEN BOER AND BRITON Or Two Boys’ Adventures in South Africa. Illustrated by A. B. SHUTE. Cloth. 354 pages. Price, $1.25. “The story bristles with action.”――_The Outlook._ “A stirring story of the South African war.”――_The Journal_, Indianapolis, Ind. “The kind of story to please boys and give them a fair idea of a great historical event.”――_St. Louis Post-Despatch._ “Throughout the book there is evidence of that sympathy for the Boer which prevails on this side of the Atlantic.”――_Chronicle_, Chicago. SECOND VOLUME. ON TO PEKIN Or Old Glory in China. Illustrated by A. B. SHUTE. Cloth. 330 pages. Price, $1.25. “Parents can feel, in putting this book into the hands of boys and girls, that they are going to get and hold the interest by the strenuous adventure, and at the same time enforce those splendid old-fashioned traits of honesty, courage, and true all-round manliness.”――_Universalist Leader._ “A thoroughly up-to-date book, full of incidents familiar to us, which will suit the boys as well as be of interest to their parents.”――_San Francisco Call._