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NIMMO'S NATIONAL LIBRARY.

Just ready, in crown 8vo, with Steel Frontispiece and Vignette, handsomely bound, cloth extra, price 5s. each; also in full gilt side, back, and edges, price 6s. each.

The English Circumnavigators: The most remarkable Voyages round the World by English Sailors. (Drake, Dampier, Anson, and Cook's Voyages.) With a Preliminary Sketch of their Lives and Discoveries. Edited, with Notes, Maps, etc., by DAVID Laing Purves.

Compared with a good deal of the literature for young folks which is poured upon the market, these narratives are as gold to worthless clay. . . The book is a good book in a handsome shape.'-Scotsman.

'We do not think a boy's book of equal worth and equal cheapness was ever previously published.'-Ayr Observer.

Uniform in size and price with the above, with Steel Frontispiece and Vignette, and Eight Illustrations,

The Book of Adventure and Peril, A Record of Heroism and Endurance on Sea and Land. Compiled and Edited by CHARLES BRUCE, Editor of Sea Songs and Ballads,' 'The Birthday Book of Proverbs,' etc.

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The Great Triumphs of Great Men. Edited by JAMES MASON. Illustrated.

Great Historical Mutinies, comprising the Story of the Mutiny of the Bounty,' the Mutiny at Spithead and the Nore, the Mutinies of the Highland Regiments, and the Indian Mutiny, etc. Edited by DAVID HERBERT, M.A.

Famous Historical Scenes from Three Centuries. Pictures of celebrated events from the Reformation to the end of the French Revolution. Selected from the works of Standard Authors by A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF.

Companion volume to the English Circumnavigators. The English Explorers; comprising details of the more famous Travels by Mandeville, Bruce, Park, and Livingstone. With Map of Africa and Chapter on Arctic Exploration.

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