THE PIRATE

QUENTIN DURWARD

THE TALISMAN

FAIRMAID OFFERTE.

AiTaijged by

Harkibt Gassiot, and edited, with

an Introduction ;iud simple Notes,

by W. M.

Mackenzie.

Illustrated.

Bound in Limp CU.th.

Price 6d.

each net.

" Consider what things a boy learns from the reading of Scott. ... It is history convoycd in tbe rnost efficacious mauueV possibl'.-, by connection with couteniporary gruups of figures, so real that thev bring home to the rcader the history itsèlf. . . . The Court of Elizabeth ; the captivity of M.u-y, Queen of Scots ; the gallant attempt of Prince Charles ; the Civil AVar ; the days of knightly tournamcnt and foudal oppress'ion ; the Covenantcrs ; the reign of Louis XI. ; the Crusades— ail thèse pcriods reçoive the kind of illumination which fixes thcm in the memoi-y and makcs the dry bones of history live when they are presented in connection with the actors of a contemporary drama."— iïr U'alUi- Besant.

ENGLISH (Continued).