“It is a rare book for boys, who will revel in its descriptions of Arctic scenery, of sports among the regions of cold, of the sights presented, snowy owls, narwhals, bears, and sea-horses. Then, the perils of the voyagers, their narrow escapes, their strange expedients, and the fun and jollity when danger had passed, will cheat young eyes of sleep, and make boys unconscious of hunger.”—New Bedford Mercury.
OFF TO THE GEYSERS.
1 vol. 16mo. Illustrated. $1.50.
“Messrs. Osgood & Co. have one series which is worthy of especial attention. There are three volumes of this—‘Camping Out,’ of which we have already spoken, ‘Left on Labrador,’ and ‘Off to the Geysers.’ Boys will like these stories, in spite of the amount of information they contain; for the narrative is dramatic, and the illusions well kept up from first to last. It is difficult to believe that Wade and Raed and Kit and Wash were not live boys, sailing up Hudson’s Straits, and reigning temporarily over an Esquimaux tribe; voyaging to Iceland, and lodging in the village of Reykjalith with a farmer, who read to them in the evenings out of the ‘Grettir Saga.’ The last half of the volume, ‘Off to the Geysers,’ is chiefly this beautiful and poetic Saga, rendered so simply that no boy of ten could fail to understand it. If Mr. Stephens continues to take his boys around the world in their Gloucester schooner, he will make a series of stories rivalling Mayne Reid’s in picturesqueness, and having far more verisimilitude in their atmosphere.”—The Independent.
TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST.
By RICHARD H. DANA, JR.
NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION.
$1.50.
“It would be impertinence to praise so well known a book as Mr. Dana’s original work, but we may say that his added chapter, ‘Twenty-four Years After,’ is of very rare interest.”—London Spectator.
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