The last in the three-volume “Paddle your own canoe” series. There is in this story plenty to whet the appetite of an adventure-loving lad—mystery, a brave sailor boy as hero, a shipwreck, the discovery of pirates’ gold, treachery, a search extending to India, wild beasts of the jungle, the Sepoy rebellion, the escape and return.
Ellis, Edward Sylvester. River and jungle. †$1. Winston.
6–26479.
Indo-China is the scene of Dudley Mason’s experiences which befall him on his way thru the jungle to his father, a missionary in the interior of Siam. Tigers, crocodiles, snakes, wild Indians and elephants make the way one of perils and hair-breadth escapes.
Ellis, Edward Sylvester (Seward D. Lisle, pseud.). Seth Jones of New Hampshire. †$1.25. Dillingham.
7–6405.
A reprint of a dime-novel published nearly 50 years ago, which supports the claim made by the author in his introduction that dime novel literature not only was not immoral but was good reading for the young. Seth Jones is a border hero and his story is one of scalpings and bloodshed, of rescued maidens and daring escapades.
“It is such a story as the most fastidious of telegraph boys would not hesitate to put his imprimatur upon.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 639. Ap. 20. ’07. 340w. |