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story which reads like the most fascinating fiction, but is really the genuine history of the sufferings and adventures of a young Protestant." THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, LONDON. * * * * * Every Boy's Bookshelf. _A New Series of Eighteenpenny Stories for Boys, full of stirring adventure. Each with two illustrations in colours and coloured medallion on cover. Large crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 1s. 6d._ +SKYLARK: His Deeds and Adventures.+ By M. GENESTE. With two coloured illustrations by W. E. WIGFULL. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 1s. 6d. Skylark, so named from his propensity for 'larking' and practical joking, is not only a favourite at school on account of his sunny disposition, but a real influence for good because of the uniform 'straightness' of his conduct. His adventures include a fire at the school, in which he nearly perishes, and being kidnapped and carried off to France, having stumbled on evidence tending to identify the authors of a burglary. Altogether the book is full of incident. +CAVE PERILOUS: A Tale of the Bread Riots.+ By L. T. MEADE. With two coloured illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 1s. 6d. A very brightly written tale, full of incident and adventure, of English life nearly a century ago. _The Scotsman_ says: 'A spirited and interesting tale of adventure in which a boy and girl, shut up in a wild cave, but sustained by a sturdy piety, contrive not only to extricate themselves, but to discover and recover a lost parent who had been kidnapped. It is written with a catching vivacity, and is sure to be a favourite with young readers.' +THE TURQUOISE RING.+ By IDA LEMON. With two coloured illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 1s. 6d. A brightly written story that will hold the boy reader's attention all through. It is full of incident, and is told with the author's well-known skill. +OLD SCHOOLFELLOWS AND WHAT BECAME OF THEM.+ With two coloured illustrations by J. H. VALDA. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 1s. 6d. A book that will delight both old and new schoolfellows. A number of old schoolfellows find themselves established not far from each other, and form a society for relating their own adventures and the adventures of schoolmates known to them. The stories are capitally told, and in the Captain's Story, t
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