Relates the experiences of two boys, cousins to each other, one American and the other English, whose fathers are engaged in the Transvaal, one in farming and the other in mining operations. While the two boys are off on a hunting trip after big game, the war between the Boers and Britons suddenly breaks out, and the boys find themselves placed between hostile armies, where their thrilling experiences are brought out in Mr. Stratemeyer's best style.
Exhibits the same qualities which have given popularity to his former writings.--_The Times, Pittsburg, Pa._
A stirring story of the South African war.--_The Journal, Indianapolis, Ind._
The kind of story to please boys and give them a fair idea of a great historical event.--_St. Louis Post-Despatch._
_TWO YOUNG LUMBERMEN Or From Maine to Oregon for Fortune_
320 pages. Cloth. Illustrated. Price $1.00 net
A splendid new story, undoubtedly the best Mr. Stratemeyer has yet penned. It covers the whole of the great lumber industry of our country, the scene shifting from Maine to Michigan and the Great Lakes, and then to the Columbia and the Great Northwest. The heroes are two sturdy youths who have been brought up among the lumbermen of their native State, and who strike out in an honest endeavor to better their condition. As mill hands, fellers, log drivers, and general camp workers they have a variety of adventures, absorbing in the extreme. An ideal volume for the library of every wide-awake American who wishes to know what our great lumber industry is to-day.
Boys are acquiring the Stratemeyer habit.--_Post, Chicago._
Mr. Stratemeyer's books are not only entertaining but instructive.--_Daily Press, Portland, Me._
He knows how to attract and hold boy readers.--_Evening Standard, New Bedford, Mass._
The demands of boy readers are peculiar, and the author who can satisfy them, not once or twice, but uniformly, must possess rare ability in an extremely difficult field. Such an author is Edward Stratemeyer.--_Sunday News, Newark, N.J._
_LOST ON THE ORINOCO Or American Boys in Venezuela_
This volume tells of five American youths, who, with their tutor, sail from New York to La Guayra, touching at Curaçao on the way. They visit Caracas, the capital, Macuto, the fashionable seaside resort, go westward to the Gulf of Maracaibo and lake of the same name, and at last find themselves in the region of the mighty Orinoco, and of course they have some exciting experiences, one of which gives name to the book. Just the book boys and young men should read, in view of the general interest in matters Pan-American.