The Voyage of the Arrow
By T. Jenkins Hains, author of "The Black Barque," "The Windjammers," etc.
With six illustrations by H. C. Edwards $1.50
Another of Captain Hains's inimitable sea stories, in which piracy, storm, and shipwreck are cleverly intermingled with love and romance, and vivid and picturesque descriptions of life at sea. Mr. Hains's new story describes the capture on the high seas of an American vessel by a gang of convicts, who have seized and burned the English ship on which they were being transported, and their final recapture by a British man-of-war.
The Treasure Trail
By Frank L. Pollock.
Library 12mo, cloth decorative $1.25
This is a splendid story of adventure, full of good incidents that are exceptionally exciting. The story deals with the search for gold bullion, originally stolen from the Boer government in Pretoria, and stored in a steamer sunk somewhere in the Mozambique Channel. Two different search parties are endeavouring to secure the treasure, and the story deals with their adventures and its final recovery by one party only a few hours before the arrival of the second.
The book reads like an extract from life, and the whole story is vivid and realistic with descriptions of the life of a party of gentlemen adventurers who are willing to run great odds for great gains.
There is also "a woman in the case," Margaret Laurie, who proves a delightful, reliant, and audacious heroine.