A. L. BURL'S PUBLICATIONS 



Captain Bayley's Heir : A Tale of the Gold Fields of California. 



By G. A. HENTY. \Vith full-page Illustrations by H. M. 



?AGET. \2rno, cloth, price $1.00. 



A frank, manly lad and his cousin are rivals in theheirship'of a 

 ^o si i arable property. The former falls into a trap laid by the 

 iattet, and while under a false accusation of theft foolishly leaves 

 Eng 'a,id for America. He works his passage before the mast, 

 joins a small band of hunters, crosses a tract of country infested 

 with Indians to the California!! gold diggings, and is successful 

 both as digger and trader. 



"Mr. Henty is careful to mingle instruction with entertainment; and the 

 humorous touches, especially in the sketch of John Holl, the Westminster 

 dustman, Dickens himself could hardly nave excelled. 11 Christian Leader. 



For Name and Fame ; or, Through Afghan Passes. By G, A 

 HENTY. With full -page Illustrations by GORDON BROWNE, 

 I2mo, cloth, price $1.00 



An interesting story of the last war in Afghanistan. The hero, 

 after being wrecked and going through many stirring adventures 

 among the Malays, findi 1 his way to Calcutta and enlists in a regi- 

 me t proceeding to join the army at the Afghan passes. He ac- 

 companies the force uri'ier General Roberts to the Peiwar Kotal, 

 is wounded, taken prisoner, carried to Cabul, whence he is trans - 

 ' ferred to Candahar, and lakes wart in the final defeat of the army 

 of Ayoub Khan, 



"The best feature of the bod apart from the interest of its scenes of ad- 

 ventureis its honest effort to Jo justice to the patriotism of the Afghan 

 people. 11 Daily News 



Captured by Apes : The Wonderful Adventures of a Young- 

 Animal Trainer. By H\RRY PRENTICE, 12mo, cloth, $1.00. 

 The scene of this tale is laid on an island in the Malay Archi- 

 pelago. Philip Garland, a young animal collector and trainer, of 

 New York, sets sail for Ekstorn seas in quest of a new stock of 

 living curiosities. The vessel is wrecked off the coast of Borneo 

 and young Garland, the sole survivor of the disaster, is cast ashore 

 on a small island, and captured by the apes that overrun the 

 place The lad discovers that the ruling spirit of the monkey 

 tribe is a gigantic and vicious baboon, whom he identifies as 

 Goiiah, an animal at one time in his possession and with whose 

 instruction he had been especially diligent. The brute recognizes 

 him, and with a kind of malignant satisfaction puts his formez 

 master through the same course of training he had himself ex 

 perienced with a faithfulness of detail which shows how astonish 

 ing is monkey recollection Very nevel indeed is the way Hy 

 which the young man escapes death. Mr. Prentice has certainly 

 worked a, new vein on juvenile fiction, and the ability with \vhicl* 

 Ue handles a difficult subject stamps him as a write? of undoubted 

 skil]. 



