THE WOLF PATROL
A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts.
BY
JOHN FINNEMORE
AUTHOR OF 'JACK HAYDON'S QUEST,' 'THE STORY OF A SCOUT,' 'TWO BOYS IN WAR-TIME,' 'IN THE TRENCHES,' ETC. ETC.
Large Crown 8vo. Cloth. Containing Eight Full-page Illustrations in Colour by H. M. PAGET.
Price =3s.= =6d.=
This story is the only boy's book which Mr. Finnemore will publish thisseason, and deals with a subject now of burning interest among allboys--the scouting movement founded by Lieut.-General Baden-Powell,C.B., the hero of Mafeking. The story deals with the adventures ofboy scouts who formed a patrol, and above all, the doings of twopatrol-leaders who, beginning as bitter enemies, become close friendsunder the influence of the boy scout movement. The book is dedicated byspecial permission to General Baden-Powell, who has been so kind as toread the story in manuscript, and to approve of it most heartily. Ina letter to the author he says, "Wishing you all success for this soexcellent a work." The book is thus stamped with the hall-mark of thefounder's approval.
PUBLISHED BY
A. & C. BLACK, 4, 5, AND 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.
THE GOLDEN GIRDLE
BY
COL. MOCKLER-FERRYMAN
Large Crown 8vo. Cloth. Containing Eight Full-page Illustrations in Colour by ALLAN STEWART.
Price =3s.= =6d.=
The hero of this thrilling story of pluck and adventure is a youngEnglishman who, after a course of training at the British Museum, issent out by his uncle to Babylon, to unearth a mysterious girdle,known to have been worn by one of the ancient Assyrian Queens. Makinga start from Baghdad, young Henderson, accompanied by the ResidencySurgeon, crosses Mesopotamia, and eventually enters the Arabiandesert. Here the two friends became the guests of a tribe of Bedouins,and, while prosecuting their search, enjoy many strange experiences.They return to Baghdad after a fruitless quest, and subsequently thehero returns alone to the desert, when, with his Bedouin friends, heresumes the pursuit of what he now discovers to be the object of themost superstitious dread. The chase, as told, is replete with excitingadventures, and the interest of the story is maintained to the end. Theyoung Englishman's indomitable determination has its reward, and themysteries ascribed to the Golden Girdle are laid at rest.
PUBLISHED BY
A. & C. BLACK, 4, 5, AND 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
-Italic text is denoted by _underscores_; bold text by =equal signs=.
-fixed plain print and punctuation errors.
-Page 33: the word "Sose" has benn changed in "Sose" as below
-Page 96: "Monte Cassiano" is obviously an error; corrected as "Monte Cassino".
-Page 169: Every source gives "Naravatna" as a single word; I left it as spelled by author.
-Page 291: "united kingdom" has not been capitalised because doen't refer to the modern United Kingdom.
-Page 322: Colons spaced because they mean separation between words and not punctuation, following the ancient inscription style.
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