The Jack Hazard series of stories, published in the late Our Young Folks, and continued in the first volume of St. Nicholas, under the title of “Fast Friends,” is no doubt destined to hold a high place in this class of literature.  The delight of the boys in them (and of their seniors, too) is well founded.  They go to the right spot every time.  Trowbridge knows the heart of a boy like a book, and the heart of a man, too, and he has laid them both open in these books in a most successful manner.  Apart from the qualities that render the series so attractive to all young readers, they have great value on account of their portraitures of American country life and character.  The drawing is wonderfully accurate, and as spirited as it is true.  The constable, Sellick, is an original character, and as minor figures where will we find anything better than Miss Wansey, and Mr. P. Pipkin, Esq.  The picture of Mr. Dink’s school, too, is capital, and where else in fiction is there a better nick-name than that the boys gave to poor little Stephen Treadwell, “Step Hen,” as he himself pronounced his name in an unfortunate moment when he saw it in print for the first time in his lesson in school.

On the whole, these books are very satisfactory, and afford the critical reader the rare pleasure of the works that are just adequate, that easily fulfill themselves and accomplish all they set out to do.—­Scribner’s Monthly.

JACK HAZARD SERIES.
6 vols.  BY J.T.  TROWBRIDGE $7.25

Jack Hazard and His Fortunes. 
Doing His Best. 
The Young Surveyor. 
A Chance for Himself. 
Past Friends. 
Lawrence’s Adventures.
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CHARLES ASBURY STEPHENS.

This author wrote his “Camping Out Series” at the very height of his mental and physical powers.

“We do not wonder at the popularity of these books; there is a freshness and variety about them, and an enthusiasm in the description of sport and adventure, which even the older folk can hardly fail to share.”—­Worcester Spy.

“The author of the Camping Out Series is entitled to rank as decidedly at the head of what may be called boys’ literature.”—­Buffalo Courier.

CAMPING OUT SERIES.

By C.A.  STEPHENS.

All books in this series are 12mo. with eight full page illustrations.  Cloth, extra, 75 cents.

CAMPING OUT.  As Recorded by “Kit.”

“This book is bright, breezy, wholesome, instructive, and stands above the ordinary boys’ books of the day by a whole head and shoulders.”—­The Christian Register, Boston.

LEFT ON LABRADOR; OR, THE CRUISE OF THE SCHOONER YACHT “CURLEW.”  As Recorded by “Wash.”

“The perils of the voyagers, the narrow escapes, their strange expedients, and the fun and jollity when danger had passed, will make boys even unconscious of hunger.”—­New Bedford Mercury.