BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN.
"Mr. Manville Fenn may be regarded as the successor in boyhood's affections of Captain Mayne Reid."—Academy.
QUICKSILVER:
Or a Boy with no Skid to his Wheel. By George Manville Fenn. With 10 full-page Illustrations by Frank Dadd. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, $1·50.
Dr. Grayson has a theory that any boy, if rightly trained, can be made into a gentleman and a great man; and in order to confute a friendly objector decides to select from the workhouse a boy to experiment with. He chooses a boy with a bad reputation but with excellent instincts, and adopts him, the story narrating the adventures of the mercurial lad who thus finds himself suddenly lifted several degrees in the social scale. The idea is novel and handled with Mr. Manville Fenn's accustomed cleverness, the restless boyish nature, with its inevitable tendency to get into scrapes, being sympathetically and often humorously drawn.
"Quicksilver is little short of an inspiration. In it that prince of storywriters for boys—George Manville Fenn—has surpassed himself. It is an ideal book for a boy's library."—Practical Teacher.
"Mr. Fenn possesses the true secret of producing real and serviceable boys' books. Every word he writes is informed with full knowledge and, even more important, quick sympathy with all the phases of youthful life. In Quicksilver he displays these qualities in a high degree."—Dundee Advertiser.