rders of China
and Thibet. The author has taken great pains to make his descriptions
of the scenery, natural history, and botany, and of the manners and
habits of the frontier people accurate and instructive. There are
plenty of exciting adventures and encounters with wild beasts and no
less wild men._"--STANDARD.

The Castaways. A Story of Adventure in the Wilds of Borneo. By
Captain MAYNE REID.

The Meadows Family; or, Fireside Stories of Adventure and Enterprise.
By M. A. PAULL, Author of "Tim's Troubles," etc. With Illustrations.

The Story of the Niger. A Record of Travel and Adventure from the Days
of Mungo Park to the Present Time. By ROBERT RICHARDSON, Author of
"Adventurous Boat Voyages," "Ralph's Year in Russia," etc. With
Thirty-one Illustrations.

The Norseland Library.

Post 8vo, cloth extra. Price 2s. 6d. each.

The Hermit Princes. A Tale of Adventure in Japan. By ELEANOR
STREDDER, Author of "Doing and Daring," etc.

"_Conspicuous for novelty of subject and treatment. It is a Japanese
story perfectly conceived and realized. The landscape-painting
throughout is terse and full of interest._"--MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.

Norseland Tales. By H. H. BOYESEN, Author of "The Battle of the Rafts,
and Other Stories of Boyhood in Norway." With Seven Illustrations.

"_They are tales of modern life, not of the Vikings, but of and about
the sea, and of Norwegian boys who crossed the Atlantic. All are well
written and interesting._"--GLASGOW HERALD.

Leaves from a Middy's Log. By ARTHUR LEE KNIGHT, Author of "Adventures
of a Midshipmite," "The Rajah of Monkey Island," etc. Illustrated by
A. PEARCE.

"_A decidedly fresh and stirring story. There is plenty of incident
and plenty of spirit in the story; the dialogue is amusing and natural,
and the descriptions are vigorous and vivid._"--SPECTATOR.

Sons of the Vikings. An Orkney Story. By JOHN GUNN, M.A., D.Sc. With
Illustrations by JOHN WILLIAMSON.

Sons of Freedom; or, The Fugitives from Siberia. By FRED. WHISHAW,
Author of "Harold the Norseman," "A Lost Army," "Boris the
Bear-Hunter," etc. With numerous Illustrations.

T. NELSON AND SONS, London, Edinburgh, and New York.

Our Boys' Select Library.

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THREE BOOKS BY W. H. G. KINGSTON.

Afar in the Forest. With Forty-one Full-page Engravings.

_A tale of settler life in North America, full of stirring adven