THE ROMANCE OF INDUSTRY AND INVENTION. Selected by Robert Cochrane, editor of Great Thinkers and Workers, Beneficent and Useful Lives, Adventure and Adventurers, Recent Travel and Adventure, Good and Great Women, Heroic Lives, &c. With 34 process and woodcut Illustrations. 2/6
‘It is hard to say which chapter is the best, for each seems more interesting than the last.’—The Queen.
‘A most interesting and inspiring book.’—Colliery Guardian.
‘We can recommend this work as at once instructive and interesting.’—New Age.
THROUGH THICK AND THIN: The Story of a School Campaign. By Andrew Home, author of From Fag to Monitor, Disturbers of the Peace, &c. With four Illustrations by W. Rainey. 2/6
‘This is just the kind of book for boys to rave over; it does not cram moral axioms down their throats, the characters act them instead.’—Glasgow Daily Mail.
PLAYMATES: A Story for Boys and Girls. By L. T. Meade. With six Illustrations by G. Nicolet. 2/6
‘The charm of Mrs Meade’s stories for children is well sustained in this pretty and instructive tale.’—Liverpool Mercury.
OUTSKERRY: The Story of an Island. By Helen Waters. With four Illustrations by R. Burns. 2/6
‘The diversion provided is varied beyond expectation (and indeed belief). We read of an “Arabian Night’s Entertainment,” but here is enough for an Arctic night.’—The Times.
