Blackie & Son’s New, Publications. 5

 

BOOKS BY G. A. HENTY.

ST. GEORGE FOR ENGLAND:

A Tale of Cressy and Poitiers. By G. A. Henry, author of
“With Clive in India,” “By Sheer Pluck,” “ Facing Death,”
“Under Drake’s Flag,” &c. With 8 full-page Illustrations
by Gorpon Brownz in black and tint. Crown 8vo, cloth
elegant, 5s.

No portion of English history is more crowded with great events than that
of the reign of Edward III. Cressy and Poitiers laid France prostrate at
the feet of England. The Spanish fleet was dispersed and destroyed by a
naval battle as remarkable in its incidents as was that which broke up the
Armada in the time of Elizabeth. Europe was ravaged by the dreadful
plague known as the Black Death, and France was the scene of the terrible
peasant rising called the Jacquerie. All these stirring events 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
adventures and perils, becomes by valour and good conduct the squire, and
at last the trusted friend and companion of the Black Prince.

BY SHEER PLUCK:

A Tale of the Ashanti War. By G. A. Henry, author of “ With
Clive in India,” “ Under Drake’s Flag,” &. With 8 full-page
Illustrations by Gorpon Browne in black and tint. Crown
8vo, cloth elegant, 5s.

The Ashanti Campaign seems but an event of yesterday, but it happened
when the generation now rising up were too young to have made them-
selves acquainted with its incidents. The author has woven, in a tale of
thrilling interest, all the details of the campaign, of which he was himself
a witness. His hero, after many exciting adventures in the interior, finds
himself at Coomassie just before the outbreak of the war, is detained a
prisoner by the king, is sent down with the army which invaded the British
Protectorate, escapes, and accompanies the English expedition on their
march to Coomassie.

“Mr. Henty keeps up his reputation as a writer of boys’ stories. ‘By Sheer Pluck’
will be eagerly read. The author's personal knowledge of the west coast has been
turned to good advantage.” —A theneum.

““No one could have done the work better than he has done it. The lad must be
very difficult to satisfy who is not satisfied with this.”—Scotsman.

“The book is one which will not only sustain, but add to Mr. Henty’s reputation.
The illustrations are particularly good.”—Standard.

“Of all the new books for boys which the season has produced, there is not one
better fitted to win their suffrages than ‘ By Sheer Pluck,’ It is written with a simple
directness, force, and purity of style worthy of Defoe. Morally, the book is every-
thing that could be desired, setting before the boys a bright and bracing ideal of the
English gentleman.”—Christian Leader.