Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50
A ripping story of adventure by sea is regarded by every true-hearted boy as the very best story of all. The yarn—that’s the thing! If the sea is a northern sea, full of ice and swept by big gales, if the adventures are real, if the hero is not a prig, if the tale concerns itself with heroic deeds and moves like a full-rigged ship with all sail spread to a rousing breeze, the boy will say “Bully!” and read the story again. “The Adventures of Billy Topsail” is a book to be chummy with. It is crowded with adventure, every page of it, from the time young Billy is nearly drowned by his dog, until in a big blizzard, lost on an ice-floe, he rescues Sir Archibald’s son, and the old Dictator weathers the gale.
There is “something doing” every minute—something exciting and real and inspiring. The book is big enough and broad enough to make Billy Topsail a tried friend of every reader—just the sort of friend Archie found him to be. And Billy is good company. He is not a prig; he is a real boy, full of spirit and fun and courage and the wish to distinguish himself. In a word, as the lads say, he’s “all right, all right!” He sails, fishes, travels the ice, goes whaling, is swept to sea with the ice, captures a devil-fish, hunts a pirates’ cave, gets lost on a cliff, is wrecked, runs away to join a sealer, and makes himself interesting in a hundred ways. He’s a good chum, in calm or gale, on water, ice or shore—that’s what Billy Topsail o’ Ruddy Cove is.
By NORMAN DUNCAN
Doctor Luke of The Labrador
12mo, Cloth, $1.50.
N. Y. Evening Post: “Mr. Duncan is deserving of much praise for this, his first novel.... In his descriptive passages Mr. Duncan is sincere to the smallest detail. His characters are painted in with bold, wide strokes.... Unlike most first novels, ‘Dr. Luke’ waxes stronger as it progresses.”
Henry van Dyke: “It is a real book, founded on truth and lighted with imagination, well worth reading and remembering.”
Review of Reviews: “Mr. Duncan has added a new province to the realm of literature. This strong, beautiful love story moves with a distinctive rhythm that is as fresh as it is new. One of the season’s two or three best books.”