THE LAND OF THE KANGAROO. Adventures of Two Boys in the Great Island Continent. 318 pp. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
The late Col. Thos. W. Knox was a famous traveler and writer of boys’ books of travel and adventure. His last book (finished only ten days before his sudden death) describes a portion of the world in which he took a vast interest, and of which little is known in this country. Australia, the great island continent, the land of the kangaroo, and a country of contradictions, is most interestingly described.
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QUARTERDECK & FOK’SLE. By Molly Elliot Seawell, author of “Decatur and Somers,” etc. 272 pp. Illustrated. $1.25.
Miss Seawell is exceptionally gifted in the line of instructing and amusing young people at the same time, and many a boy pricks up his ears at the sound of her name, in the hope of another of her lively, and at the same time instructive and high-spirited volumes. This one will sustain her reputation well, and will be read with eager interest.—Congregationalist, Boston.
Boston: W. A. Wilde & Co., 25 Bromfield Street.