BOYS' SCHOOL AND ADVENTURE STORIES I/- net. *S 



Bessie Marchant 



IN THE CRADLE OF THE NORTH WIND. Bessie Marchant is 

 a well-known authoress for girls and boys. Her story of the sea and a 

 hunt for a missing ship in the ice-bound regions of the north, with much 

 hardship and many exciting incidents, is well worth reading. 



Robert Richardson 



THE BOYS OF WILLOUGHBY SCHOOL. A story of camping- 

 out experiences as well as school life. A little French master is ragged a 

 good deal by the boys, but turns up trumps in the end, and wins for 

 himself admiration and respect. 



Louis Rousselet 



THE SERPENT CHARMER. A story of Indian life which would 

 interest most boys. A father and a son and daughter are most treacherously 

 and cruelly beaten by a neighbouring Indian prince. An old snake charmer, 

 whom the children befriended, proves a wonderful friend to them. 



Richard Rowe 



THE GOLD DIGGERS. A young man leaves England and the girl 

 to whom he is engaged and " tries his luck " in Australia. After hard 

 times he returns to England and his people. 



L. E. Tiddeman 



THE ADVENTURES OF JACK CHARRINGTON. The little son 

 of a soldier dances in the streets of Bologne because he believes his father 

 is beggared. He makes friends with a delightful little lame girl. A good 

 story for small children. 



Jules Verne 



ADRIFT IN THE PACIFIC. This is the story of the amazing adven- 

 tures of a party of New Zealand schoolboys, who suddenly find themselves 

 adrift upon the ocean. They are driven on the shores of an island, and 

 it is most interesting for boys to read how these plucky youngsters estab- 

 lished a boy's colony. 



TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. The 



first and the most marvellous submarine ever constructed. Voyaging with 

 it, the reader is made familiar with the marvels that abound in the ocean 

 and in the land below the ocean. Marine monsters, wonderful plants and 

 flowers, volcanoes, buried cities are all met in a voyage that girdles the 

 earth. 



TIGERS AND TRAITORS. A thrilling story of a strange caravan 

 that penetrates the Terai, the immense forest that stretches across India 

 at the foot of the mighty Himalayas. In this forest wild men, and wilder 

 beasts are encountered. The book thrills from the first page to the last. 



