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  Humphrey Bold: His Chances and Mischances by Land and Sea. A Story ofthe Time of Benbow. Illustrated by W. H. MARGETSON.

  In this book, one of Mr. Herbert Strang's best-known historicalromances, are recounted the adventures of Humphrey Bold from the timewhen he was a puny slip of a boy attending Shrewsbury School, the buttof his companions, who chaffed him for being Bold by name and timid bynature, until he had grown into a sturdy young giant, and sailed intoPlymouth Sound as First Lieutenant of the Bristol frigate. Theintervening chapters tell of Humphrey's service at sea under AdmiralBenbow, his capture by the French and his escape from prison, and of themany exciting events that befell him in the West Indies.

  "So felicitous is he in imparting local colour to his narrative thatwhilst reading it we have found ourselves thinking of Thackeray. Thissuggests a standard by which very few writers of boys' books will bearbeing judged. The majority of them are content to provide their youngfriends with mere reading. Herbert Strang offers themliterature."--_Glasgow Herald_.