"Mr. Rideing's book is intended for the edification of advanced young readers. It narrates the adventures of Tom Smart, Bob Edge, and Peter Small, in their travels through the mountainous region of the West, principally in Colorado. The author was a member of the Wheeler expedition, engaged in surveying the Territories, and his descriptions of scenery, mining life, the Indians, games, etc., are in a great measure derived from personal observation and experience. The volume is handsomely illustrated, and can not but prove attractive to young readers."—Chicago Journal.
BOYS COASTWISE; or, All Along the Shore. By W. H. Rideing, Uniform with "Boys in the Mountains." With numerous Illustrations. Illuminated boards, $1.75.
"Fully equal to the best of the year's holiday books for boys.... In his present trip the author takes them among scenes of the greatest interest to all boys, whether residents on the coast or inland—along the wharves of the metropolis, aboard the pilot-boats for a cruise, with a look at the great ocean steamers, among the life-saving men, coast wreckers and divers, and finally on a tour of inspection of lighthouses and lightships, and other interesting phases of nautical and coast life."—Christian Union.
THE CRYSTAL HUNTERS. A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps. By George Manville Fenn, author of "In the King's Name," "Dick o' the Fens," etc. 12mo, Cloth, $1.50.
"This is the boys' favorite author, and of the many books Mr. Fenn has written for them this will please them the best. While it will not come under the head of sensational, it is yet full of life and of those stirring adventures which boys always delight in."—Christian at Work.
"English pluck and Swiss coolness are tested to the utmost in these perilous explorations among the higher Alps, and quite as thrilling as any of the narrow escapes is the account of the first breathless ascent of a real mountain-peak. It matters little to the reader whether the search for crystals is rewarded or not, so concerned does he become for the fate of the hunters."—Literary World.
SYD BELTON: The Boy who would not go to Sea. By George Manville Fenn. With 6 full-page Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"Who among the young story-reading public will not rejoice at the sight of the old combination, so often proved admirable—a story by Manville Fenn, illustrated by Gordon Browne! The story, too, is one of the good old sort, full of life and vigor, breeziness and fun. It begins well and goes on better, and from the time Syd joins his ship, exciting incidents follow each other in such rapid and brilliant succession that nothing short of absolute compulsion would induce the reader to lay it down."—London Journal of Education.
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