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Blackie & Son’s
Story Books for Boys
G. MANVILLE FENN
Quicksilver! or, The Boy with no Skid to his Wheel. With 6 page Illustrations by F. Dadd. 3s. 6d.
Dr. Grayson has a theory that any boy, if rightly trained, can be made into a gentleman. He chooses a boy from the workhouse, with a bad reputation but with excellent instincts, and adopts him, the story narrating the adventures of the mercurial lad. The restless boyish nature, with its inevitable tendency to get into scrapes, is sympathetically and humorously drawn.
“Quicksilver is little short of an inspiration. In it that prince of story-writers for boys—George Manville Fenn—has surpassed himself. It is an ideal book for a boy’s library.”—Practical Teacher.
“Not only a most engrossing story, but full of noble impulses and lessons.”—Newcastle Journal.
—In the King’s Name. Illustrated. 3s. 6d. New Edition.