The Pall Mall Gazette said: “Mr. Herbert Strang, whose splendid story, Tom Burnaby, proved so brilliantly successful, has written another that will rank as its equal for vivid interest”.
—The Adventures of Harry Rochester: A Story of the Days of Marlborough and Eugene. Illustrated. 6s.
The hero, driven by the death of his father to seek his fortune in London, is kidnapped and carried on board a ship bound for Barbados. Escaping, he takes service with a Dutchman who is contractor to the allied forces in the Low Countries. A daring feat while on convoy duty wins him a commission in a Dutch regiment; he fights at Blenheim and comes into relations with Marlborough and Eugene. The story is packed with adventure; and there is a romantic underplot.
“In The Adventures of Harry Rochester Mr. Strang has written one of the best stories of a military and historical type we have seen for many a day.”—Athenæum.
“The story is full of vigour and movement.”—Literary World.
—Brown of Moukden: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War. Illustrated. 5s.
In Kobo, Mr. Herbert Strang gave a picture of the war from the Japanese side. In the present book he approaches the same great subject from the Russian side. Mr. Brown is the victim of a conspiracy to connect him with the betrayal of certain military secrets to the Japanese; he suddenly disappears, and his son Jack is left friendless in Moukden. Jack’s strange adventures when caught up in the whirlpool of the war, and the means by which he ultimately traces his father’s whereabouts, are told with the same spirit and intimate knowledge of the East that made the success of Kobo.
“Mr. Strang’s best-known volume, Tom Burnaby, was a real boys’ book, and was hailed with delight by every youngster who loves a story full of daring and adventure. But Mr. Strang puts more into his books than exciting incidents well told. His facts and dates, and his descriptions of the manners and customs of the periods with which he deals, have all the merits of complete historical accuracy, so that boys who read Mr. Strang’s works have not merely the advantage of perusing enthralling and wholesome tales, but they are, unconsciously it may be, also absorbing sound and trustworthy information of the men and times about which they are reading.”—Daily Telegraph.
“The incident of the locomotive race down the Siberian Railway is, for breathless interest, the equal of anything we know of in the whole range of juvenile fiction.... The book will hold boy readers spell-bound.”—Church Times.
DAVID KER