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 A Story of Pirates and the Spanish Main.

Fortieth Thousand. With TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS and MAP.

Price 3s. 6d.

TREASURE ISLAND.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

"A book for boys which will be delightful to all grown men who have the sentiment of treasure hunting."—Saturday Review. "As we follow the narrative of the boy Jim Hawkins we hold our breath at his dangers, and breathe again at his escapes."—The Athenaum.

"Mr. Stevenson's story is skilfully constructed, and related with untiring vivacity and genuine dramatic power. It deals with a mysterious island, a buried treasure, the bold buccaneer, and all the stirring incidents of a merry life on the main."—The Academy.

"'Treasure Island' is a real work of art, and at the same time so exciting that we are not ashamed to own that we found it difficult, when wt had once begun, to lay it down before the last page was reached."—John Bull.

"'Mr. Stevenson has shown an extraordinary faculty of imagination and dramatic presentation in 'Treasure Island.'"—Standard.

"We began to look at 'Treasure Island' while hungrily waiting the announcement of dinner, but when the summons came we regretted the cook's punctuality. That evening we were forced to go to the theatre, but Mr. Stevenson's book went too, and between the Acts we followed Jim Hawkins, the youthful hero, together with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey, who took him on the cruise to Treasure Island, till they were embarked at Bristol on board the Hispaniola. During a short railway journey home after the theatre, we landed with the adventurers at the island, and there were most thoroughly justified the worst suspicions that had been formed concerning the crew which the Squire had so strangely got together, a crew of pirates who had sailed with Captain Kidd, and proposed to help themselves to the buried millions, after going through what was to them the unimportant trifle of cutting the throats of Trelawney, the Doctor, Jim, and their few adherents. The train stopped at our station just as Jim had embarked in the coracle to cut adrift the Hispaniola, whose crew, honest and villainous, were at war on the island itself; and, unable to wait till we reached home, we stood under a lamp-post and finished the chapter. This narrative, for the personal nature of which we apologise, will best show the reader the irresistible fascination of the book. The interest never flags. Nor is it only the broad narrative that is enthralling. The book is written with wonderful felicity of detail. One seems to be witness of the exciting events which are related." —Illustrated Sportiiigand Dramatic News.

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