JACK ARCHER, A Tale of the Crimea

"Boys in story-books are remarkable creatures, and 'Jack Archer'is among the most remarkable. At fifteen he was made a midshipman on one of the ships going to the Crimea, and for two years he led a life of wild adventure, fighting, killing, saving, outwitting enemies, sometimes in prison and sometimes in hiding-places. He broke his bones, and learned languages, and lived with Polish insurgents, and assumed various characters, and finally married a beautiful and rich Russian princess, who had fallen in love with him when, at sixteen, he had been quartered as an English prisoner at her father's house. His adventures include the chief battles of the Crimean War, and are all the more entertaining because he was such a mere boy when he performed these deeds of daring. The book is a good specimen of the high-wrought and sensational stories, containing a good deal of history, and a magnificent idea of the duties of an English gentleman as soldier or sailor."

—Boston Advertiser.

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Sixteen Illustrations as they appeared in the Roberts Brothers edition of 1884 are included.