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J/i?. BULLEN'S NEW BOOK. , 



The Log of a Sea- Waif. 



Being Recollections of the First Four Years of my Sea Life. By Frank T. Bullen, 

 F. R. G. S., author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea." Illus- 

 trated. Uniform edition. i2mo. Cloth, $1.50. 

 The brilliant author of " The Cruise of the Cachalot" and " Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new 

 work the continuous story of the actual experiences of his first four years at sea. In graphic and pic- 

 turesque phrases he has sketched the events of voyages to the West Indies, to Bombay and the Coro- 

 mandel coast, to Melbourne and Rangoon. Nothing could be of more absoibing interest than this won- 

 derfully vivid account of foks'l humanity, and the adventures and strange sights and experiences 

 attendant upon deep-sea voyages. It is easy to see in this took an English companion to our own 

 " Two Years before the Mast." 



BY FELIX GRAS. 



The White Terror. 



A Romance. By Fklix Gras. Translated from the Provenfal by Mrs. Catharine A. 



Janvier. Uniform with "The Reds of the Midi" and "The Terror." i6mo. Cloth, 



$1.50. 

 In "The White Terror" M. Gras paints with singular vividness the strange conditions offered in the 

 Midi after the more familiar events of the French Revolution in Paris. He shows the alternating 

 triumphs and reverses of Whites and Reds, and the lengthening of the shadow cast by Napoleon, while 

 throughout all these stormy and adventurous scenes there passes the appealing: figure of Adeline, daugh- 

 ter of a murdered Royalist. The story of Adeline's protection by humble friends from factional hate 

 and from the murderous Calisto forms a romance extraordinary in its sympathetic quality and dramatic 

 power. Her story and the tale of her friend Pascalet's adventures in the Napoleonic wars make a 

 romance which throbs with life and holds the reader tense with suspended interest. The enthusiastic 

 reception given to M. Gras's " Reds of the Midi " and "The Terror " indicates the welcome awaiting 

 his new romance. 



''For children, parents, teachers, and all ivho are interested in the psychology 0/ childhood ^ 



The Book of Knight and Barbara. 



By David Starr Jordan. Illustrated. i2mo. Cloth, $1 50. 

 The curious and fascinating tales and pictures of this unique book are introduced by Dr. Jordan with 

 a preface which contains the following : " The only apology the author can make in this case is that he 

 never meant to do it. He had told his own children many stories of many kinds, some original, some 

 imitative, some travesties of the work of real story-tellers. Two students of the department of educa- 

 tion in the Stanford University —Mrs. Louise Maitland, of San Jose, and Miss Harriet Hawley, of Bos- 

 ton— asked him to repeat these stories before other children. Miss Hawley, as a stenographer, took them 

 down for future reference, and while the author was absent on the Bering Sea Commission of 1S56 she 

 wrote them out in full, thus forming the material of this book. Copies of the stories were placed by 

 Mrs. Maitland in the hands of hundreds of children. These drew illustrative pictures, after their 

 fashion ; and from the multitude offered, Mrs. Maitland chose those which are here reproduced. The 

 scenes in the stories were also subjected to the criticisms of the children, and in many cases amended to 

 meet their suggestions. 



The Half-Back. 



.\ Story of School, Football, and' Golf By Ralph Henry Barbour. i2mo. Illus- 

 trated. Cloth, $1 50. 

 This breezy story of outdoor sport wiil be read with the most intense interest by every healthy boy, and 

 by many girls. Mr. Barbour's hero is introduced to the reader at a preparatory school, where the serious 

 work and discipline are varied by golf and football matches and a regatta. Later the young half-back 

 of the school earns a place upon a 'varsity team and distinguishes himself in a great university game, 

 which is sketched in a most brilliant and stirring chapter. Mr. Barbour's vivid and picturesque sketches 

 of sports are not permitted to point a false moral. Without obtruding the lesson upon the reader, he 

 shows that the acquisition of knowledge, and not athletics, is the end and aim of school and college life. 



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