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By G.A. HENTY. With illustrations by C.J. STANILAND. 12mo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. "Well constructed and vividly told. From first to last nothing stays the interest of the narrative. It bears us along as on a stream whose current varies in direction, but never loses its force." Saturday Review. In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce.
By G.A. HENTY. With illustrations. 12mo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. "The story, from the critical moment of the killing of the sacred cat to the perilous exodus into Asia with which it closes, is very skillfully constructed and full of exciting adventures. It is admirably illustrated." Saturday Review. Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden.
With Clive in India; or, The Beginnings of an Empire. By G.A. HENTY. With illustrations by GORDON BROWNE. 12mo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00. "He has taken a period of Indian history of the most vital importance, and he has embroidered on the historical facts a story which of itself is deeply interesting. Young people assuredly will be delighted with the volume." Scotsman.
Her name was Florence Dombey. A battered red book lay in Florence Dombey's lap. It was called, "With Clive in India." It was written by G. A. Henty and told of the marvelous and hair-breadth adventures of an English lad in an Indian campaign. Florence Dombey's attention, however, was not on the book.
But the young man hurried on, composing his face quickly. "Some of them, of course, are tourists like yourselves. But I do know a few of them. That man in the clerical coat, and the round collar, is Father Henty a Jesuit well known in Winnipeg a great man among the Catholics here." "But a disappointed one," said Lady Merton. The Canadian looked surprised.
But Francis had often to attend on Henty as well as myself, when Domingo the quick-witted was lying blind drunk at the back of the tent, and once and again I have seen Henty carrying down on his back to the departing train the unconscious servant on whom at the beginning he had congratulated himself.
Dan was his own man again in the morning, though rather pale and weak; he wanted to get up, but Cecily ordered him to stay in bed. Fortunately Felicity forgot to repeat the command, so Dan did stay in bed. Cecily carried his meals to him, and read a Henty book to him all her spare time. The Story Girl went up and told him wondrous tales; and Sara Ray brought him a pudding she had made herself.
Stephen Henty,* the leader of an enterprising family who had been the hardy pioneers of civilization, in discovering and laying open the fertile districts of this part of the continent, and under whose fostering care Portland has risen from a mere whaling station to its present prosperity. Such being the case, it is with regret that I am obliged to say that Mr.
Henty's pages, as those deserve to live whose disciplined bands formed really the germ of the modern British army." Athenæum. The Dragon and the Raven; or, The Days of King Alfred, By G.A. HENTY. With illustrations by C.J. STANILAND. 12mo, cloth, olivine edges, price $1.00.
This passage he would have read in his best style and then resumed the reading of Henty. Thus, by degrees, he would have effected the substitution, permitting the boy to think that this had been done on his own initiative. =The principle illustrated.= The vitalized teacher observes, profits by, and initiates into her work the method of the politician and so makes her school work vital.
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