Dan The Newsboy 47

Dan The Newsboy 47

Maori and Settler+: A Story of the New Zealand War. By G. A. HENTY.

With full-page Illustrations by ALFRED PEARSE. 12mo, cloth, price

$1.00.

 

The Renshaws emigrate to New Zealand during the period of the war with

the natives. Wilfrid, a strong, self-reliant, courageous lad, is the

mainstay of the household. He has for his friend Mr. Atherton, a

botanist and naturalist of herculean strength and unfailing nerve and

humor. In the adventures among the Maoris, there are many breathless

moments in which the odds seem hopelessly against the party, but they

succeed in establishing themselves happily in one of the pleasant New

Zealand valleys.

 

"Brimful of adventure, of humorous and interesting conversation,

and vivid pictures of colonial life."--_Schoolmaster._

 

 

+Julian Mortimer+: A Brave Boy's Struggle for Home and Fortune. By

HARRY CASTLEMON. 12mo, cloth, price $1.00.

 

Here is a story that will warm every boy's heart. There is mystery

enough to keep any lad's imagination wound up to the highest pitch. The

scene of the story lies west of the Mississippi River, in the days when

emigrants made their perilous way across the great plains to the land of

gold. One of the startling features of the book is the attack upon the

wagon train by a large party of Indians. Our hero is a lad of uncommon

nerve and pluck, a brave young American in every sense of the word. He

enlists and holds the reader's sympathy from the outset. Surrounded by

an unknown and constant peril, and assisted by the unswerving fidelity

of a stalwart trapper, a real rough diamond, our hero achieves the most

happy results. Harry Castlemon has written many entertaining stories for

boys, and it would seem almost superfluous to say anything in his

praise, for the youth of America regard him as a favorite author.

 

 

"+Carrots+:" Just a Little Boy. By MRS. MOLESWORTH. With

Illustrations by WALTER CRANE. 12mo, cloth, price 75 cents.

 

"One of the cleverest and most pleasing stories it has been our

good fortune to meet with for some time. Carrots and his sister are

delightful little beings, whom to read about is at once to become

very fond of."--_Examiner._

 

"A genuine children's book; we've seen 'em seize it, and read it

greedily. Children are first-rate critics, and thoroughly

appreciate Walter Crane's illustrations."--_Punch._

 

 

+Mopsa the Fairy.+ By JEAN INGELOW. With Eight page Illustrations.

12mo, cloth, price 75 cents.

 

"Mrs. Ingelow is, to our mind, the most charming of all living

writers for children, and 'Mopsa' alone ought to give her a kind of

pre-emptive right to the love and gratitude of our young folks. It

requires genius to conceive a purely imaginary work which must of

necessity deal with the supernatural, without running into a mere

riot of fantastic absurdity; but genius Miss Ingelow has and the

story of 'Jack' is as careless and joyous, but as delicate, as a

picture of childhood."--_Eclectic._

 

 

+A Jaunt Through Java+: The Story of a Journey to the Sacred

Mountain. By EDWARD S. ELLIS. 12mo, cloth, price $1.00.

 

The central interest of this story is found in the thrilling adventures

of two cousins, Hermon and Eustace Hadley, on their trip across the

island of Java, from Samarang to the Sacred Mountain. In a land where

the Royal Bengal tiger runs at large; where the rhinoceros and other

fierce beasts are to be met with at unexpected moments; it is but

natural that the heroes of this book should have a lively experience.

Hermon not only distinguishes himself by killing a full-grown tiger at

short range, but meets with the most startling adventure of the journey.

There is much in this narrative to instruct as well as entertain the

reader, and so deftly has Mr. Ellis used his material that there is not

a dull page in the book. The two heroes are brave, manly young fellows,

bubbling over with boyish independence. They cope with the many

difficulties that arise during the trip in a fearless way that is bound

to win the admiration of every lad who is so fortunate as to read their

adventures.

 

 

+Wrecked on Spider Island+; or, How Ned Rogers Found the Treasure. By

JAMES OTIS. 12mo, cloth, price $1.00.

 

A "down-east" plucky lad who ships as cabin boy, not from love of

adventure, but because it is the only course remaining by which he can

gain a livelihood. While in his bunk, seasick, Ned Rogers hears the

captain and mate discussing their plans for the willful wreck of the

brig in order to gain the insurance. Once it is known he is in

possession of the secret the captain maroons him on Spider Island,

explaining to the crew that the boy is afflicted with leprosy. While

thus involuntarily playing the part of a Crusoe, Ned discovers a wreck

submerged in the sand, and overhauling the timbers for the purpose of

gathering material with which to build a hut finds a considerable amount

of treasure. Raising the wreck; a voyage to Havana under sail; shipping

there a crew and running for Savannah; the attempt of the crew to seize

the little craft after learning of the treasure on board, and, as a

matter of course, the successful ending of the journey, all serve to

make as entertaining a story of sea-life as the most captious boy could

desire.

 

 

+Geoff and Jim+: A Story of School Life. By ISMAY THORN. Illustrated

by A. G. WALKER. 12mo, cloth, price 75 cents.

 

"This is a prettily told story of the life spent by two motherless

bairns at a small preparatory school. Both Geoff and Jim are very

lovable characters, only Jim is the more so; and the scrapes he

gets into and the trials he endures will no doubt, interest a large

circle of young readers."--_Church Times._

 

"This is a capital children's story, the characters well portrayed,

and the book tastefully bound and well

illustrated."--_Schoolmaster._

 

"The story can be heartily recommended as a present for

boys."--_Standard._

 

 

+The Castaways+; or, On the Florida Reefs, By JAMES OTIS. 12mo,

cloth, price $1.00.

 

This tale smacks of the salt sea. It is just the kind of story that the

majority of boys yearn for. From the moment that the Sea Queen dispenses

with the services of the tug in lower New York bay till the breeze

leaves her becalmed off the coast of Florida, one can almost hear the

whistle of the wind through her rigging, the creak of her straining

cordage as she heels to the leeward, and feel her rise to the

snow-capped waves which her sharp bow cuts into twin streaks of foam.

Off Marquesas Keys she floats in a dead calm. Ben Clark, the hero of the

story, and Jake, the cook, spy a turtle asleep upon the glassy surface

of the water. They determine to capture him, and take a boat for that

purpose, and just as they succeed in catching him a thick fog cuts them

off from the vessel, and then their troubles begin. They take refuge on

board a drifting hulk, a storm arises and they are cast ashore upon a

low sandy key. Their adventures from this point cannot fail to charm the

reader. As a writer for young people Mr. Otis is a prime favorite. His

style is captivating, and never for a moment does he allow the interest

to flag. In "The Castaways" he is at his best.

 

 

+Tom Thatcher's Fortune.+ By HORATIO ALGER, JR. 12mo, cloth, price

$1.00.

 

Like all of Mr. Alger's heroes, Tom Thatcher is a brave, ambitious,

unselfish boy. He supports his mother and sister on meager wages earned

as a shoe-pegger in John Simpson's factory. The story begins with Tom's

discharge from the factory, because Mr. Simpson felt annoyed with the

lad for interrogating him too closely about his missing father. A few

days afterward Tom learns that which induces him to start overland for

California with the view of probing the family mystery. He meets with

many adventures. Ultimately he returns to his native village, bringing

consternation to the soul of John Simpson, who only escapes the

consequences of his villainy by making full restitution to the man whose

friendship he had betrayed. The story is told in that entertaining way

which has made Mr. Alger's name a household word in so many homes.

 

 

+Birdie+: A Tale of Child Life. By H. L. CHILDE-PEMBERTON.

Illustrated by H. W. RAINEY. 12mo, cloth, price 75 cents.

 

"The story is quaint and simple, but there is a freshness about it

that makes one hear again the ringing laugh and the cheery shout of

children at play which charmed his earlier years."--_New York

Express._

 

 

+Popular Fairy Tales.+ By the BROTHERS GRIMM. Profusely Illustrated,

12mo, cloth, price $1.00.

 

"From first to last, almost without exception, these stories are

delightful."--_Athenæum._

 

 

+With Lafayette at Yorktown+: A Story of How Two Boys Joined the

Continental Army. By JAMES OTIS. 12mo, cloth, price $1.00.

 

The two boys are from Portsmouth, N. H., and are introduced in August,

1781, when on the point of leaving home to enlist in Col. Scammell's

regiment, then stationed near New York City. Their method of traveling

is on horseback, and the author has given an interesting account of what

was expected from boys in the Colonial days. The lads, after no slight

amount of adventure, are sent as messengers--not soldiers--into the