THE PIRATE

QUENTIN DURWARD

THE TALISMAN

FAIRMAIDOFPERTH.

Arrauged by

Harriet Gassiot, and edited, with

an Introduction and I simple Notes,

by W. M.

Mackenzie.

Illustrated.

Bound in Limp Olotli.

Price 6d.

each net.

" Consider wliat thlngs a boy leams from the reading of Scott. ... it is history conveyed in the most eflicacious manuer possible, by connection with contemporary groups of figures, so real that they bring horae to the reader the history itsèlf. . . . Tbe Court of Elisabeth ; the captivity of Mary, Queen of Hcots ; the gallant attenipt of Prince Charles ; the Civil "War ; the days of kiiigbtly tournaraent and fcudal oppruss'ion ; the Coveiiantcrs ; the reign of Louis XI. ; tbe Crusades— ail thèse )icriods rcccivc the kind of illumination which fixes thcni in the memory and niakes the drv bones of liistory live when they are preseuted in connection with the actors o£ a contemporary drama."— îir IValter Besant.

ENGLISH (Continued).