Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California
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BY G. A. HENTY.
"Mr. Henty is the prince of story-tellers for boys."--_Sheffield Independent._
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_A FINAL RECKONING:_
A Tale of Bush Life in Australia. By G. A. HENTY. With 8 full-page Illustrations by W. B. WOLLEN. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, $1.50.
In this book Mr. Henty has again left the battlefields of history andhas written a story of adventure in Australia in the early days of itssettlement.
The hero, a young English lad, after rather a stormy boyhood, emigratesto Australia, and gets employment as an officer in the mounted police.
A few years of active work on the frontier, where he has many a brushwith both natives and bush-rangers, gain him promotion to a captaincy,and he eventually settles down to the peaceful life of a squatter.
"Mr. Henty has never published a more readable, a more carefully constructed, or a better written story than this."--_Spectator._
"Exhibits Mr. Henty's talent as a story-teller at his best. . . . The drawings possess the uncommon merit of really illustrating the text."--_Saturday Review._
"All boys will read this story with eager and unflagging interest. The episodes are in Mr. Henty's very best vein--graphic, exciting, realistic; and, as in all Mr. Henty's books, the tendency is to the formation of an honourable, manly, and even heroic character."--_Birmingham Post._
_THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE:_
Or, With Peterborough in Spain. By G. A. HENTY. With 8 full-page Illustrations by H. M. PAGET. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, $1.50.
There are few great leaders whose lives and actions have so completelyfallen into oblivion as those of the Earl of Peterborough. This islargely due to the fact that they were overshadowed by the glory andsuccesses of Marlborough. His career as General extended over littlemore than a year, and yet, in that time, he showed a genius for warfarewhich has never been surpassed, and performed feats of daring worthy ofthe leaders of chivalry.
"Mr. Henty has done good service in endeavouring to redeem from oblivion the name of the great soldier, Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough. The young recruit, Jack Stilwell, worthily earns his commission and tells his tale with spirit."--_Athenaeum._
"Mr. Henty never loses sight of the moral purpose of his work--to enforce the doctrine of courage and truth, mercy and loving kindness, as indispensable to the making of a gentleman. Lads will read The Bravest of the Brave with pleasure and profit; of that we are quite sure."--_Daily Telegraph._
"In describing the brief, brilliant, most extraordinary campaigns of this chivalric and picturesque commander Mr. Henty is in his element, and the boy who does not follow the animated and graphic narrative with rapture must sadly lack spirit and pluck."--_Civil Service Gazette._