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  A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd,Knight, as Related by Himself in the Year 1641.

  This book is unique in literature for boys. It relates the adventurouscareer of an Elizabethan gentleman, in a style carefully modelled on thesimple prose of the century which produced the Authorised Version of theBible. No previous writer for boys has ever attempted a similarachievement. Apart from its romantic and exciting incidents, this storyhas great value by reason of its historical and geographicalinformation, and its exceptional style.