The friendship that springs up between some German boys and their French captives, well told.
132. Treasure Island. By R. L. Stevenson. (Cassell) 5s.
So exciting and engrossing that it must be mentioned, but bringing the reader into rough company, among a good many horrors.
133. Tom Brown’s School Days. By T. Hughes. (Macmillan) 2s. or 6d.
The life is so fresh and wholesome in spirit that, though the sphere is so different from that of the elementary school-boy, his tone may be raised by it.
134. Ascott Hope’s Tales.
These are too numerous and have too many different publishers for enumeration, but all are lively and wholesome tales of boyhood mostly in school life, and are good to lend and give.
135. The Crofton Boys. By Harriet Martineau. (Routledge) 1s. and 1s. 6d. (With 40 illustrations, 2s.)
A very attractive story of a brave little boy at school, who loses his foot by an accident, and resolutely conceals the name of the perpetrator.