by G. A. Henty
BY G. A. HENTY.
"Mr. Henty is one of our most successful writers of historical tales."--_Scotsman._
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_IN THE REIGN OF TERROR:_
The Adventures of a Westminster Boy. By G. A. HENTY. With 8 full-page Illustrations by J. SCHOeNBERG. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, $1.50.
Harry Sandwith, a Westminster boy, becomes a resident at the chateau ofa French marquis, and after various adventures accompanies the family toParis at the crisis of the Revolution. Imprisonment and death reducetheir number, and the hero finds himself beset by perils with the threeyoung daughters of the house in his charge. The stress of trial bringsout in him all the best English qualities of pluck and endurance, andafter hair-breadth escapes they reach Nantes. There the girls arecondemned to death in the coffin-ships Les Noyades, but are saved by theunfailing courage of their boy-protector.
"Harry Sandwith, the Westminster boy, may fairly be said to beat Mr. Henty's record. His adventures will delight boys by the audacity and peril they depict. . . . The story is one of Mr. Henty's best."--_Saturday Review._
"The interest of this story of the _Reign of Terror_ lies in the way in which the difficulties and perils Harry has to encounter bring out the heroic and steadfast qualities of a brave nature. Again and again the last extremity seems to have been reached, but his unfailing courage triumphs over all. It is an admirable boy's book."--_Birmingham Post._
_ST. GEORGE FOR ENGLAND:_
A Tale of Cressy and Poitiers. By G. A. HENTY. With 8 full-page Illustrations by GORDON BROWNE, in black and tint. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, $1.50.
No portion of English history is more crowded with great events thanthat of the reign of Edward III. Cressy and Poitiers laid Franceprostrate at the feet of England; the Spanish fleet was dispersed anddestroyed by a naval battle as remarkable in its incidents as was thatwhich broke up the Armada in the time of Elizabeth. Europe was ravagedby the dreadful plague known as the Black Death, and France was thescene of the terrible peasant rising called the Jacquerie. All thesestirring events are treated by the author in _St. George for England_.The hero of the story, although of good family, begins life as a Londonapprentice, but after countless adventures and perils, becomes by valourand good conduct the squire, and at last the trusted friend of the BlackPrince.
"Mr. Henty has developed for himself a type of historical novel for boys which bids fair to supplement, on their behalf, the historical labours of Sir Walter Scott in the land of fiction."--_Standard._
"Mr. Henty as a boy's story-teller stands in the very foremost rank. With plenty of scope to work upon he has produced a strong story at once instructive and entertaining."--_Glasgow Herald._