On the Irrawaddy: A Story of the first Burmese War. With 8 Illustrations by W. H. Overend. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, 5s.
“Altogether this is a capital story, and the descriptions of the Burmese cities are very good.”—The Times.
“Stanley Brook’s pluck is even greater than his luck, and he is precisely the boy to hearten with emulation the boys who read his stirring story.”—Saturday Review.
Through Russian Snows: A Story of Napoleon’s Retreat from Moscow. By G. A. Henty. With 8 Illustrations by W. H. Overend, and a Map. 5s.
“Julian, the hero of the story, early excites our admiration, and is altogether a fine character such as boys will delight in, whilst the story of the campaign is very graphically told.... Will, we think, prove one of the most popular boys’ books this season.”—St. James’s Gazette.
In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado. By G. A. Henty. Illustrated by G. C. Hindley. 5s.
“Few Christmas books will be more to the taste of the ingenuous boy than In the Heart of the Rockies.”—Athenæum.
“Mr. Henty is seen here at his best as an artist in lightning fiction.”—Academy.
One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo. By G. A. Henty. With 8 page Illustrations by W. H. Overend, and 2 Maps. 5s.
“Written with Homeric vigour and heroic inspiration. It is graphic, picturesque, and dramatically effective ... shows us Mr. Henty at his best and brightest. The adventures will hold a boy of a winter’s night enthralled as he rushes through them with breathless interest ‘from cover to cover’.”—Observer.