GUARDIAN:—­’Mr. Strang’s care and accuracy in detail are far beyond those of the late Mr. Henty, while he tells a story infinitely better.’

CHURCH TIMES:—­’If the place of the late G.A.  Henty can be filled it will be by Mr. Herbert Strang, whose finely-written and historically accurate books are winning him fame.’

SCHOOLMASTER:—­’Mr. Strang is entitled to premier place amongst writers of stories that equally interest boys and adults.’

STANDARD:—­’It has become a commonplace of criticism to describe Mr. Strang as the wearer of the mantle of the late G.A.  Henty....  We will go further, and say that the disciple is greater than the master.’

DAILY TELEGRAPH:—­’Boys who read Mr. Strang’s works have not merely the advantage of perusing enthralling and wholesome tales, but they are also absorbing sound and trustworthy information of the men and times about which they are reading.’

TRIBUNE:—­’Mr. Herbert Strang’s former books “caught on” with our boys as no other books of adventure since Henty’s industrious pen fell from his hand.’

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN:—­’Mr. Henty was the ancient master in this kind; the present master, Mr. Herbert Strang, has ten times his historical knowledge and fully twenty times more narrative skill.’

GENTLEWOMAN:—­’This is the literature we want for young England.’