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Maori and Settler: A Story of the New Zealand War

New Volumes

New Volumes.

The Light Princess, and other Fairy Stories. By George MacDonald. New Edition.

Nutbrown Roger and I: A Romance of the Highway. By J. H. Yoxall.

The story of a boy who has been defrauded of his property. He is assisted in his distress by a nobleman, who for various romantic reasons has assumed the garb without adopting the practices of a highwayman. After a series of exciting adventures the two are successful, not only in rescuing the nobleman's betrothed from evil hands, but in bringing about the restoration of the lad's property.

A Rash Promise: Or, Meg's Secret. By Cecilia Selby Lowndes.

Frank Mitchell, a boy who has spent his early years in South America, comes to England to be educated. Frank is expert in the use of the lasso, and when one day a favourite dog is found nearly strangled, with the end of the lasso round its neck, he is suspected of the deed and treated as guilty. The truth becomes known to Meg, the rector's daughter, and she is tortured by the sight of an injustice which she could remedy but for a foolish promise of secrecy which she feels compelled to keep.