150. Pickle and his Page Boy. (See [No. 30].)
151. For Fortune and Glory, a Story of the Soudan War. By Lewis Hough. (Cassell) 5s.
A somewhat wild story, involving adventures with an old semi-madman who has turned Mahometan, but with a very graphic description of life in the English army.
152. On Board the ‘Esmeralda.’ By J. Hutcheson. (Cassell) 3s. 6d.
No harm in it, though the Squeers establishment at the beginning might have been spared.
153. Jackanapes. By J. H. Ewing. (S.P.C.K.) 1s.
This beautiful story wins the attention of boys, but those who read it to them find it advisable to skip the unnecessary incident of the elopement.
154. Mutiny on the ‘Albatross.’ By F. Frankfort Moore. (S.P.C.K.) 3s. 6d.
Exactly fulfilling the boy’s description, ‘A pretty book with plenty of killing.’
155. Nimrod Nunn. (S.P.C.K.) 2s.