"The incidents, although a few are uncommon and provocative of questioning, have the naturalness of those of actual experience. They lead to exciting situations and a dramatic denouement. The action in Paris is among artists, and is introductory. It is when the action has shifted to a country town on the coast that it develops its greatest effects and interest. Sea-coast scenery and farm life are described with a communion into their spirit and an intimacy such as only a true lover of the country can ever have. The occupants of the farm, two of whom are leading characters, have the same fondness and fidelity given to their delineation. This portion of the literary work, although quietly and unobtrusively, is exceedingly well done, and is pleasing. Diane is the principal character, and is given the real qualities of womanhood; her acts are made consistent with them, and to tend to their nobler development. She illustrates the undying devotion of true love. This last 'No Name' has higher and more even merit than any of its series. Its ground and plot are well chosen, while its composition and treatment are artistic. It will be widely read and heartily enjoyed."--_Boston Globe._
TREASURE ISLAND. A Story of Pirates and the Spanish Main. By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. With illustrations by F.T. Merrill. 12mo. Cloth. Price, $1.25
"At a time when the books of Mayne Reid, Ballantyne and Kingston are taking their places on the shelves to which well-thumbed volumes are relegated, it will be with especial delight that boy readers welcome a new writer in the literature of adventure. In 'Treasure Island,' Robert Louis Stevenson takes a new departure, and writes one of the jolliest, most readable, wide-awake tales of sea life that have set the blood tingling in the veins of the boys of at least the present generation. It is decidedly of the exciting order of stories, yet not of the unhealthily sensational. It details the stirring adventures of an English crew in their search for the immense treasure secreted by a pirate captain, and it certainly has not a dull page in it. Yet the author has contrived to keep the sympathy on the side of virtue and honesty, and throw upon the pirates that odium and detestation which their nefarious courses deserve; and the book is one heartily to be commended to any sturdy, wholesome lad who is fond of the smell of the brine and the tang of sailor speech in his reading."--_Boston Courier._