THE TRUE STORY BOOK.

Edited by ANDREW LANG. With 9 Plates and 58
Illustrations in the Text. Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt,
$2.00.

Contents :—A Boy Among the Red Indians—Casanova’s Escape—Adventures
on the Findhorn—The Story of Grace Darling—The ‘‘Shannon” and the
‘““Chesapeake’”’—Captain Snelgrave and the Pirates—The Spartan Three
Hundred—Prince Charlie’s Wanderings—Two Great Matches—The Story of
Kaspar Hauser—An Artist’s Adventure—The Tale of Isandhlwana and
Rorke’s Drift—How Leif the Lucky Found Vineland the Good—The Escape
of Cervantes—The Worthy Enterprise of John Foxe—Baron Trenck—The
Adventure of John Rawlins—The Chevalier Johnstone’s Escape from Cul-
loden—The Adventures of Lord Pitsligo—The Escape of Cxsar Borgia from
the Castle of Medina del Campo—The Kidnapping of the Princes—The Con-
quest of Montezuma’s Empire—The Return of the French Freebooters.

“The editor acknowledges that there is not a dragon in the whole collection,
and that giants and witches are conspicuous by their absence, but there are princes,
and marvelous escapes, and good fighting, and buccaneering, and the punishment
of wicked conspirators to read about, so that the volume is not by any means lack-
ing in heroic and romantic interest. . . . Parents may safely buy this book for
their children with the assurance that it will cultivate their imaginative faculties in
a healthful way and give them a vast amount of harmless pleasure.”

—Boston Beacon.

“Striking adventure, fanciful plays of imagination that in no way disturb ve-
racity, and the romance of truthful history are strung together in a way that will

make the readers, young and old, realize that truth is stranger than fiction and
makes wondrously entertaining reading.’—WV. V. Observer.

“The author . . . has been extremely fortunate in the selection of sub-
jects which will be eagerly read and will prove highly entertaining and instructive.
It is in no sense a collection of fairy tales but a volume rich in adventures which
actually happened to real people. . . It is an admirable gift book for children.”

—Public Opinion, N.Y;

THE OUTDOOR WORLD;

OR, THE YOUNG COLLECTOR’S HAND-
BOOK.

By W. FURNEAUX, F.R.G.S. With 546 Illustrations,
including 16 colored Plates. Crown 8vo, 4388
pages, ornamental cover, gilt edges, $2.50.

Contents :—Part I, AnimaL LirE—Chap. I. Ponds and Streams, II, Insects
and Insect Hunting. III, The Sea-shore. IV. Snailsand Slugs. V. Spiders,
Centipedes and Millepedes. VI. Reptiles and Reptile Hunting, VII. British

_ Birds, VIII. British Mammals. Part IJ. THe VEGETABLE Worip.—IX.
Seaweeds. X. Fungi. XI. Mosses. XII. Ferns. XIII. Wild Flowers.
XIV. Grasses. XV. Our Forest Trees. Part III, Tue Minerat Worip.—
XVI. Minerals and Fossils,

 

New York: Longmans, Green, & Co.