A Famous Books for Boys and Girls Scott, Ballantyne, Fenimore Cooper, Marryat, Mayne Reid, SELECTION of those standard English books that make peren nial appeal to young minds; books that are good as literature, stimulating, and varied and attractive in subject-matter. The volumes are clearly printed on good paper, well bound in specially designed covers, and each is provided with a frontispiece. In crown 8vo volumes. Strongly bound in cloth. Price 1s. each. LOUISA M. ALCOTT R. M. BALLANTYNE R. M. BALLANTYNE THE HON. JOHN BYRON SUSAN COOLIDGE SUSAN COOLIDGE J. FENIMORE COOPER J. FENIMORE COOPER Sir EDWARD S. CREASY RICHARD HENRY DANA Some Decisive Battles of History The Lamplighter Two Years before the Mast Robinson Crusoe Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates The Good Governess Moral Tales Passages in the Life of a Galley-Slave The Snowstorm Grimm's Fairy Tales Log-Book of a Midshipman CAPTAIN MARRYAT MARY RUSSELL MITFORD PETER PARLEY EDGAR ALLAN POE ... ... ... ... ... ... 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The Victorian Era Series A series which is designed to form a record of the great movements and developments of the age, in politics, economics, religion, industry, literature, science, and art, and of the lifework of its typical and influential men. In crown 8vo volumes, cloth, 2s. 6d. each Tennyson-A Critical Study. By STEPHEN GWYNN. "It is in our opinion the best critical study of Tennyson that has been given to the public. Taking the work as a whole we can only reiterate our praises, and reaffirm our opinion of its importance as an example of fine criticism, and as a contribution to the literature which has gathered round the poems of Tennyson." -Pall Mall Gazette. Recent Advances in Astronomy. By A. H. FISON, D.Sc. (Lond.). "Mr. Fison gives a clearly comprehensive review of the most significant discoveries in astronomical science made during the Queen's reign."-Daily Mail. Charles Kingsley and the Christian Social Movement. By the Very Rev. C. W. STUBBS, D.D., Dean of Ely. 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