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By Pike and Dyke : A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic. 

 By G. A. HENTY. With full-page Illustrations by MAYNARD 

 BROWN, and 4 Maps. i2mo, cloth, price $1.00. 

 In this story Mr. Henty traces the adventures and brave deeds 

 *>f an English boy in the household of the ablest man of his age-^ 

 William the Silent. Edward Martin, the son of an English sea- 

 captain, enters the service of the Prince as a volunteer, and is em 

 ployed by him in many dangerous and responsible missions, in the 

 discharge of which he passes through the great sieges of the time. 

 He ultimately settles down as Sir Edward Martin. 



' Boys with a turn for historical research will be enchanted with the book 

 while the rest who only care for ad venture .will be students in spite of them 

 selves." St. James" 1 Gazette. 



St. George for England : A Tale of Cressy and Poitiers. By 

 G. A. HENTY. With full-page Illustrations by GORDON 

 BRO\^,S. 12mo, cloth, price $1.00. 



No portion of English history is more crowded with great events 

 than that of the reign of Edward III. Cressy and Poitiers; the 

 destruction of the Spanish fleet; the plague of the Black Death; 

 tVe Jacquerie rising; these are treated by the author in " St. 

 George for England." The hero of the story, although of good 

 family, begins life as a London apprentice, but after countless ad. 

 ventures and perils becomes by valor and good conduct the squire, 

 fi.nd at last the trusted friend of the Black Prince. 



"Mr. Henty has developed for himself a type of historical novel for boys 

 which bids fair to supplement, on their behalf, the historical rs of Sir 

 Walter Scott in the land of fiction." The Standard. 



Captain's Kidd's Gold : The True Story of an Adventurous Sailor 

 Boy. By JAMES FRANKLIN FITTS. 12rao, cloth, price $1.00. 

 There is something fascinating to the average youth in the very 

 idea of buried treasure. A vision arises before his eyes of swarthy 

 Portuguese and Spanish rascals, with black beards and gleaming 

 eyes sinister-looking fellows who once on a time haunted the 

 Spanish Main, sneaking out from some hidden creek in their long,, 

 low schooner, of picaroonish rake and sheer, to attack an unsus- 

 pecting trading craft. There were many famous sea rovers in 

 their day, but none more celebrated than Capt. Kidd. Perhaps 

 the most fascinating tale of all is Mr. Fitts' true story of an adven. 

 turous A?nerican boy, who receives from his dying father an 

 ancient bit of vellum, which the latter obtained in a curious way 

 The document bears obscure directions purporting to locate a cer 

 Sain island in the Bahama group, and a considerable treasure 

 buried there by two of Kidd's crew. The hero of this book, 

 Paul Jones Garry, is an ambitious, persevering lad, of salt-water 

 New England ancestry, and his efforts to reacli the island and 

 secure the money form one of the most aosorbing tales fox OHf 

 youth that has come from the press. 



