"We congratulate Mr. Strang on this fine book—one of the best fighting stories we have read."—Morning Post.
The Adventures of Dick Trevanion
A story of 1804.
Illustrated in Colour by W. RAINEY, R.I.
The Trevanions are a Cornish family whose fortunes have fallen very low through the working-out of their tin mines and the scheming of a relative who bears a grudge against the head of the house. In this story, dated in the early years of the 19th century, the author weaves together various strands: the war with Napoleon, the operations of smugglers, the machinations of the schemer, and the change in the fortunes of the family which ensued upon various alarums and excursions.
"This is a story after a boy's heart, treating of smugglers and family feuds and French privateers."—Spectator.
Humphrey Bold:
His Chances and Mischances by Land and Sea.
Illustrated In Colour by W. H. MARGETSON.
In this story are recounted the many adventures that befell Humphrey Bold of Shrewsbury, from the time when, a puny slip of a boy, he was befriended by Joe Punchard, the cooper's apprentice (who nearly shook the life out of his tormentor, Cyrus Vetch, by rolling him down the Wyle Cop in a barrel), to the day when, grown into a sturdy young giant, he sailed into Plymouth Sound as first lieutenant of the Bristol frigate. The intervening chapters teem with exciting incidents, telling of sea-fights with that redoubtable privateer Duguay Trouin; of Humphrey's escape from a French prison; of his voyage to the West Indies and all the perils he encountered there.