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  +MR. R.M. BALLANTYNE'S

  MISCELLANY of ENTERTAINING and

  INSTRUCTIVE TALES+.

  +With Illustrations. 1s. each+.

  _Also in a Handsome Cloth Case, Price 20s_.

  The "Athenaeum" says:--"There is no more practical way of communicatingelementary information than that which has been adopted in this series.When we see contained in 124 small pages (as in _Fast in the Ice_) suchinformation as a man of fair education should possess about icebergs,northern lights, Esquimaux, musk-oxen, bears, walruses, &c., togetherwith all the ordinary incidents of an Arctic voyage woven into a clearconnected narrative, we must admit that a good work has been done, andthat the author deserves the gratitude of those for whom the books areespecially designed, and also of young people of all classes."

  I.

  FIGHTING THE WHALES; or, Doings and Dangers on a Fishing Cruise.

  II.

  AWAY IN THE WILDERNESS; or, Life among the Red Indians and Fur Tradersof North America.

  III.

  FAST IN THE ICE; or, Adventures In the Polar Regions.

  IV.

  CHASING THE SUN; or, Rambles in Norway.

  V.

  SUNK AT SEA; or, The Adventures of Wandering Will in the Pacific.

  VI.

  LOST IN THE FOREST; or, Wandering Will's Adventures in South America.