The heavy doors were swung together, and—Hougomont was saved.
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| PHILIPPA. By Mrs Molesworth. With eightIllustrations by J. Finnemore. | 5/ |
| 'Very clever, very fantastic, and very enjoyable.'—Spectator. | |
| THE GIRL AT THE DOWER HOUSE, AND AFTERWARD. ByAgnes Giberne. With eight Illustrations by J.Finnemore. | 5/ |
| 'An absorbing story.'—Daily Free Press. | |
| CATALINA: Art Student. By L. T. Meade.With eight Illustrations by W. Boucher. | 5/ |
| 'Very brightly told.'—Punch. | |
| THE BLACK TOR: A Tale of the Reign of James I. By GeorgeManville Fenn. With eight Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. | 5/ |
| 'There is a fine manly tone about the book, which makes it particularly appropriate for youth.'—Sheffield Daily Telegraph. | |
| ROY ROYLAND; or, The Young Castellan. By George ManvilleFenn. With eight Illustrations by W. Boucher. | 5/ |
| 'Fascinating from beginning to end, … is told with much spirit and go.'—Birmingham Gazette. | |
| THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE COAST. By David LawsonJohnstone. With twenty-one Illustrations by W. Boucher. | 5/ |
| 'There is fascination for every healthy-minded boy in the very name of the Buccaneers … Mr D. L. Johnstone's new story of adventure is sure of a warm welcome.'—Manchester Guardian. | |
| GIRLS NEW AND OLD. By L. T. Meade. Witheight Illustrations by J. Williamson. | 5/ |
| 'It is a fine, bright, wholesome book, well bound and illustrated.—Saturday Review. | |
| DON. By the Author of Laddie, &c.With eight Illustrations by J. Finnemore. | 5/ |
| 'A fresh and happy story … told with great spirit…. It is as pure as spring air.'—Glasgow Herald. | |
| OLIVIA. By Mrs Molesworth. With eight Illustrations by RobertBarnes. | 5/ |
| 'A beautiful story, an ideal gift-book for girls.'—British Weekly. | |
| BETTY: a School Girl. By L. T. Meade.With eight Illustrations by Everard Hopkins. | 5/ |
| 'This is an admirable tale of school-girl life: her history involves an excellent moral skilfully conveyed.'—Glasgow Herald. | |
| BLANCHE. By Mrs Molesworth. With eightIllustrations by Robert Barnes. | 5/ |
| 'Eminently healthy … pretty and interesting, free from sentimentality.'—Queen. | |
| DIAMOND DYKE; or, The Lone Farm on the Veldt. By G. Manville Fenn. With eight Illustrations by W.Boucher. | 5/ |
| 'There is not a dull page in the book.'—Aberdeen Free Press. | |
| REAL GOLD: A Story of Adventure. By George Manville Fenn.With eight Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. | 5/ |
| 'In the author's best style, and brimful of life and adventure…. Equal to any of the tales of adventure Mr Fenn has yet written.'—Standard. | |
| POMONA. By the Author of Laddie, Tip-Cat, &c.With eight Illustrations by Robert Barnes. | 5/ |
| 'A bright, healthy story for girls.'—Bookseller. | |
From A Popular Girl. 3/6
Price 3s. 6d.
| A POPULAR GIRL: A Tale of School Life in Germany. By May Baldwin. With six Illustrations by Jessie Wilson. | 3/6 |
| A bright and naturally told story of school-girl life in Germany, in which the contrasts with school life in this country are strongly brought out. The heroine, a good-looking, clever English girl, in a high-class school in Munich, meets with a smart American girl who sins against many of the written and unwritten laws of etiquette by her pranks and the freedom of her manners and speech; yet all the while she is exceedingly liberal, good-hearted, and well-intentioned, and a good friend of the heroine, whom she shields from blame in connection with an act which led to disastrous consequences. The lady principal, Fräulein Luise, one of the best of women, cautions the heroine about her over-anxiety to be the best girl scholar; in spite of this she works openly and secretly for this end, which is gained at the expense, for a time, of her health and memory. It is while the heroine is at death's door that she learns a lifelong lesson that goodness is by far of more importance than cleverness. | |
| COSEY CORNER; or, How they Kept a Farm. By L. T.Meade. With eighteen Illustrations by Percy Tarrant. | 3/6 |
| Mrs L. T. Meade, in her best vein, here tells how four children show great ingenuity and cleverness in playing at keeping a farm, and manage to support themselves for a time from the proceeds. It is a wholesome lesson in self-help, and the reader will be inclined to agree with one of the children that 'there never was anything so nice in all the world as was life at Cosey Corner.' Honeysuckle Farm, the farmer and his wife, and the life there are prettily described, and the story is further helped by the eighteen charming illustrations by Mr Percy Tarrant. | |
| 'MY PRETTY' AND HER BROTHER 'TOO.' And other Stories. By MrsMolesworth. Charmingly Illustrated by Lewis Baumer. | 3/6 |
| Mrs Molesworth, always happily inspired when she writes for or about children, here presents ten short stories, in which little children are depicted in her inimitable style. Some of them have a Christmas flavour; all convey in an attractive form some lessons which young folks, and old folks too, would be none the worse for learning, as in 'My Pretty,' 'The Gold Scissors,' and 'The Princess and the Fairy,' in which the receipt for happiness is given as unselfishness and shared blessings. | |
| JERRY DODDS, MILLIONAIRE: A School Yarn of Merriment andMystery. By H. Barrow-North. With sixIllustrations by Harold Copping. | 3/6 |
| Jerry Dodds is the good-hearted and open-handed son of a South African millionaire, and his fortunes are traced from the time he enters Westpool School until he is kidnapped, and recovered in a marvellous way. There are lively times at Westpool—a fire, a steamer adventure, a feast to his school chums given by Jerry Dodds, and abundant adventures, which any boy will follow with breathless interest. The youth of Westpool School are as bright, healthy, mischief-making, and mirth-provoking youngsters as any boy might wish to know. Out of one prank into another seems to have been their motto. | |
From The Kopje Garrison, by G. M. Fenn; price 5s.
