boy indeed who lays it down without wishing
that it had gone on for at least 100 pages
more."--_North British Mail._

BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN.

"Mr. Manville Fenn may be regarded as the
successor in boyhood's affections of Captain Mayne
Reid."--_Academy._

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_QUICKSILVER:_

Or a Boy with no Skid to his Wheel. By GEORGE
MANVILLE FENN. With 10 full-page Illustrations by
FRANK DADD. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine
edges, $1.50.

Dr. Grayson has a theory that any boy, if rightly trained, can be made
into a gentleman and a great man; and in order to confute a friendly
objector decides to select from the workhouse a boy to experiment with.
He chooses a boy with a bad reputation but with excellent instincts, and
adopts him, the story narrating the adventures of the mercurial lad who
thus finds himself suddenly lifted several degrees in the social scale.
The idea is novel and handled with Mr. Manville Fenn's accustomed
cleverness, the restless boyish nature, with its inevitable tendency to
get into scrapes, being sympathetically and often humorously drawn.

"_Quicksilver_ is little short of an inspiration.
In it that prince of storywriters for boys--George
Manville Fenn--has surpassed himself. It is an
ideal book for a boy's library."--_Practical
Teacher._

"Mr. Fenn possesses the true secret of producing
real and serviceable boys' books. Every word he
writes is informed with full knowledge and, even
more important, quick sympathy with all the phases
of youthful life. In _Quicksilver_ he displays
these qualities in a high degree."--_Dundee
Advertiser._

_DEVON BOYS:_

A Tale of the North Shore. By GEORGE MANVILLE
FENN. With 12 full-page Illustrations by GORDON
BROWNE. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges,
$1.50.

The adventures of Sep Duncan and his school friends take place in the
early part of the Georgian era, during the wars between England and
France. The scene is laid on the picturesque rocky coast of North Devon,
where the three lads pass through many perils both afloat and ashore.
Fishermen, smugglers, naval officers, and a stern old country surgeon
play their parts in the story, which is on