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Maori and Settler: A Story of the New Zealand War

By John C. Hutcheson

page c16

By John C. Hutcheson.

Afloat at Last: A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea. By John C. Hutcheson. With 6 full-page Illustrations by W. H. Overend. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3s. 6d.

"As healthy and breezy a book as one could wish to put into the hands of a boy."

Academy.

"A tale of seafaring life told with fire and enthusiasm, full of spirited incident and well-drawn character."

Observer.

Picked up at Sea: Or, The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek. By J. C. Hutcheson. With 6 full-page Pictures. Cloth extra, 3s. 6d.

"The author's success with this book is so marked that it may well encourage him to further efforts. The description of mining life in the Far-west is true and accurate."

Standard.

The White Squall: A Story of the Sargasso Sea. By John C. Hutcheson. With 6 full-page Illustrations by John Schönberg. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3s. 6d.

"Few writers have made such rapid improvement in the course of a few years as has the author of this capital story⋯. Boys will find it difficult to lay down the book till they have got to the end."

Standard.

"The sketches of tropical life are so good as sometimes to remind us of Tom Cringle and the Cruise of the Midge."

Times.

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell: Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land. By John C. Hutcheson. Illustrated by 6 full-page Pictures. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s. 6d.

"A full circumstantial narrative such as boys delight in. The ship so sadly destined to wreck on Kerguelen Land is manned by a very lifelike party, passengers and crew. The life in the Antarctic Iceland is well treated."

Athenæum.