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A Story of Pirates and the Spanish Main.
NEW EDITION.
With TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTEATIONS and MAP.
P7-ice 5s.
Treasure Islai^d.
BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
"A book for boys which will be delightful to all gi-own men who have
the seutiment of treasure hunting." — Saturday Review.
"As we follow the narrative of the boy Jim Hawkins we hold our
breath at his dangers, and breathe again at his escapes." — The AthencBmn.
"Mr. Stevenson's story is skilfully constructed, and related with
untiring vivacity and genuine dramatic power. It deals with a mys-
terious island, a buried treasure, tlie bold buccaneer, and all the stirring
incidents of a merry life on the main." — The Academy.
" 'Treasure Island' is a real work of art, and at the same time so
exciting that we are not ashamed to own that we found it difficult, when we
had once begun, to lay it dovm before the last page was reached." — John
Bull.
" Mr. Stevenson has shown an extraordinary faculty of imagination
and dramatic presentation in ' Treasure Island.' " — Standard.
" We began to look at ' Treasure Island ' while hungrilj- waiting the
announcement of dinner, but when the summons came we regretted the
cook's punctuality. That evening we were forced to go to the theatre,
hut Mr. Stevenson's book went too, and between the acts we followed Jim
Hawkins, the youthful hero, togecher with Squire Trelawney and Dr.
Livesey, who took him on the cruise to Treasure Island, till they were
embarked at Bristol on board the Hispaniola. During a short railway
journey home after the theatre, we landed wth the adventurers at the
island, and there were most thoroughly justified the worst suspicions that
had been formed concerning the crew which the Squire had so strangely
got together, a crew of pirates who had sailed with Captain Kidd, and
proposed to help themselves to the buried millions, after going through
what was to them the unimportant trifle of cutting the throats of
Trelawney, the Doctor, Jim, and their few adherents. The train stopped
at our station just as Jim had embarked in the coracle to cut adrift
the Hispaniola, whose crew, honest and villainous, were at war on the
island itself ; and, unable to wait till we reached home, we stood under
a lamp-post and finished the chapter. This narrative, for the personal
nature of which we apologise, will best show the reader the irresistible
fascination of the book. The interest never flags. Nor is it only the
broad narrative that is enthralling. The book is wr-itten with wondeiful
felicity of detail. One seems to be witness of the exciting events which
aie related." — Jllustrated Sporting and Zh'amatic News.
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