The Captain of the Polestar, and other tales

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33b tbe same author. NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION. With Frontispiece and Vignette. Crown Svo, price 3s. 6d. MICAH CLARKE: His Statement, as made to his three Grandchildren, Joseph, Gervas, and Reuben, during the Hard "Winter of 1734. " This story strikes us as quite the best thing of its kind that has been done since ' Lorn a Doone,' and is a most brisk and entertaining chapter of romance." — World. "This is beyond all doubt the best historical story which has seen the light since Mr. R. L. Stevenson's 'Kidnapped ;' and it is worthy to stand between ' Kidnapped ' and that older story of which no sensible boy or man is ever tired — Charles Kingsley's ' Westward Ho ! "... It is, from every point of view, one of the most admirable and interesting historical tales written in our generation."— Academy.

"If it be said that Mr. Conan Doyle has given us in 'Micah Clarke ' a book for boys such as appears at rare intervals, a very inadequate idea may be given of the character and excellence of the book as a work of literature. It is the work of a literary artist, fashioned with patient and skilful labour out of solid and enduring materials, and glowing with the warmth and light and colour of imagination and humour." — Scotsman. "'Micah Clarke' is a noticeable book, because it carries the reader out of the beaten track ; it makes him now and then hold his breath with excitement ; it presents a series of vivid pictures and paints two capital portraits; and it leaves upon the mind the impression of well-rounded symmetry and completeness. . . . The novel with which ' Micah Clarke ' challenges comparison is ' Lorna Doone ; ' and as a work of art we may well consider it to be superior."— R. E. Prothero in The Nineteenth Century for August 1889. ___ London: LONGMANS; GREEN, AND CO. AND OTHER TALES.

BY A. CON AN DOYLE, AUTHOR OF "MICAH CLARKE," ETC. fZ. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. AND NEW YOEK : 15 EAST 1G"> STREET. 1890. All rights reserved. TO MY FRIEND Major-General A. W. DRAYSON AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION TOR HIS GREAT AND AS YET UNRECOGNISED SERVICES TO ASTRONOMY Œbts little Volume is DEDICATED.