THE PENANG PIRATE
And The Lost Pinnace. By John C. Hutcheson. With 3 full-page Illustrations in black and tint. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 2s.
The first story in this volume deals not with a fictional creation of the past, but with the real pirates of the present who infest the Malayan Archipelago and the great water-high ways of the East. In it the reader will discover how a party of Malayan freebooters were caught in their own toils and "hoist with their own petard," and how the gallant ship Hankow Lin voyaged from the Canton river through the straits of Sunda.
In the second tale the adventures of a party of blue-jackets belonging to one of the pinnaces of the East African squadron are narrated. Both stories are founded on fact, and abound in sensational episode and stirring incident.
BY MARY C. ROWSELL.
TRAITOR OR PATRIOT?
A Tale of the Rye-House Plot. By Mary C. Rowsell. With 6 full-page Pictures by C. O. Murray and C. J. Staniland, R.I. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3s. 6d.
A romantic tale of the later days of the reign of Charles II. The main theme of the story is the conspiracy for the assassination of the king and the Duke of York, which was to be effected on the return of the brothers from Newmarket to London. The hero of the story, Lawrence Lee, a young farmer, accidentally learns the truth, and thereupon starts on horseback for Newmarket to warn the king. After a series of adventures, the young man succeeds in his loyal enterprise, and duly receives his reward for his conspicuous share in the frustration of the "Rye-House Plot."