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27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gottorp Fury,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he had far too much of the Berserker blood of his ancestors--those rough old vikings who"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Holo; in the boat there! Stand for your lives!"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Repel boarders!"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yield thee, yield thee, Arvid Horn; yield thee to our unconquerable nozzle, came the summons from the yacht;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arvid Horn yields to no one, the plucky boy in the boat made answer, and with a parting shot and a laughing"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it, then, hard to swim, Arvid Horn?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not if one is fearless,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How; fearless? exclaimed the lad on the yacht, hastily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you perhaps think that I a... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Truly it is one thing to be brave and another to be skilful, said the king, as he stood soaked and dripping on the shore."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But for you, friend Arvid, I had almost gone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are very wet, sire,... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a new way for hunting the bear, Arvid, and a rarely good one too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of that I'll be bound, sire, young Arvid responded;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall know anon, King Charles replied;"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait, said the man;"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Holo, all!"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From the council, sire,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What says Count Piper? he exclaimed half aloud;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Holstein laid waste by Denmark, Gottorp Castle taken, and the Duke a fugitive? And my council dares to temper and negotiate? _Ack; so!_ Arvid Horn, we must be in Stockholm ere nightfall."
... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gentlemen, he said, with earnestness and determination in his voice,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will make King Augustus go back the way he came,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am wearied with this pace. All you who are for Denmark follow me!"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What strange whizzing noise is this in the air?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said Charles;"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sire, said one of his chief officers, the General Stenbock,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What! then, said the intrepid young king,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and then at the signal of two fusees and the watchword,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as has been said,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lion of the North,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "came to a sudden stop as the tinkle of the deacon's collection-bell fell upon the ears of the slumbering congregation. In the big Van Rensselaer pew it roused Stephanus, the boy patroon, from a delightful dream of a ten-pound _twaalf_, or striped bass, which he thought he had ju... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From General Schuyler, sir,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These be sad tidings, Margery; would it not be wiser for you all to come up to the manor-house for safety?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For safety? echoed high-spirited Mistress Margery."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, what need, Stephanus? Is not... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, at any rate, I shall look out for you if danger does come, he said, as he turned toward the manor-house."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll surely not object to that, will you, Margery?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, how can I? laughed the... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All men are created free and equal."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Uncle, he said to his guardian, that stern patriot and whig, General Abram Ten Broek,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, remember, lad, said his uncle,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I'll be a citizen of a free republic, won't I, Uncle? said the bo... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My friends, the lad said, acknowledging their greeting with a courtly bow,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have asked you to come to the manor-house on this, my birthday, so that I might thank you for what you did for me before the Saratoga fight, when you sent so m... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So shines a good deed in a naughty world,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "farmers. Up flew the long handle of the rake and struck the terrified Dutchman a sounding whack upon the back of his head. He gave himself up for lost."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value"... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE THRONG OF TENANTS GREETED HIM WITH A ROUSING BIRTHDAY CHEER."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Though born to hereditary honors and aristocratic rank, says his biographer,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "would still have been worthy of record as"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A better collection of juvenile books it has not been our privilege to examine. A robust and healthy tone pervades their pages; and while stirring adventures, deeds of daring, and self-sacrifice form an important factor in the stories, information, historical or otherwise, const... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "FLYING FISH"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Little Pickle."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stories from the Classics."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Adventures well worth the telling. The book is extremely entertaining as well as useful, and there is a wonderful freshness in the Roman scenes and characters."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Entertaining in the highest degree from beginning to end, and full of advent... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can honestly commend this work, which is admirably, as it is copiously illustrated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As interesting as the most exciting romance, and a great deal more likely to be remembered to good purpose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As we might expect from Mr. Henty the tale is a clever and instructive piece of history, and as boys may be trusted to read it conscientiously, they can hardly fail to be profited as well as pleased."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A praiseworthy attempt to interest B... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In this book Mr. Henty has contrived to exceed himself in stirring adventures and thrilling situations. The pictures add greatly to the interest of the book."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Among writers of stories of adventure for boys Mr. Henty stands in the very fi... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Henty inspires a love and admiration for straightforwardness, truth, and courage. This is one of the best of the many good books Mr. Henty has produced, and deserves to be classed with his _Facing Death_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The interest of the story n... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does justice to the pluck and determination of the British soldiers during the unfortunate struggle against American emancipation. The son of an American loyalist, who remains true to our flag, falls among the hostile redskins in that very Huron country which has been endeared t... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Henty has broken new ground as an historical novelist. His tale is full of stirring action, and will commend itself to boys."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is written in the author's best style. Full of the wildest and most remarkable achievements, it is a tal... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A stirring book of Drake's time, and just such a book as the youth of this maritime country are likely to prize highly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ned in the coils of the boa-constrictor is a wonderful picture. A boy must be hard to please if he wishes for anythi... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps the best story of the early days of England which has yet been told."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A well-built superstructure of fiction on an interesting substratum of fact. Treated in a manner most attractive to the boyish reader."
},
{
"from": "h... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A story of very great interest for boys. In his own forcible style the author has endeavoured to show that determination and enthusiasm can accomplish marvellous results; that courage is generally accompanied by magnanimity and gentleness, and that it is the parent of nearly all... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Henty's pen is never more effectively employed than when he is describing incidents of warfare. The best feature of the book--apart from the interest of its scenes of adventure--is its honest effort to do justice to the patriotism of the Afghan people."
},
{
"from": ... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Henty keeps up his reputation as a writer of boys' stories. 'By Sheer Pluck' will be eagerly read."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The book is one which will not only sustain, but add to Mr. Henty's reputation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Written ... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Facing Death is a story with a purpose. It is intended to show that a lad who makes up his mind firmly and resolutely that he will rise in life, and who is prepared to face toil and ridicule and hardship to carry out his determination, is sure to succeed. The hero of the story i... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the King's Name"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Fenn has won a foremost place among writers for boys. 'In the King's Name' is, we think, the best of all his productions in this field."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Told with the freshness and verve which characterize all Mr. Fenn's writings and put him in the ... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brownsmith's Boy embraces the home adventures of an orphan, who, having formed the acquaintance of an eccentric old gardener, accepts his offer of a home and finds that there is plenty of romance in a garden, and much excitement even in a journey now and then to town. In a half-... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Told with admirable force and strength. Few men other than Mr. Fenn have the capacity for telling such stories as this."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There could be no more welcome present for a boy. There is not a dull page, and many will be read with breathless in... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bunyip Land"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Fenn deserves the thanks of everybody for 'Bunyip Land' and 'Menhardoc,' and we may venture to promise that a quiet week may be reckoned on whilst the youngsters have such fascinating literature provided for their evenings' amusement."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just such a tale as boys will delight to read, and as they are certain to profit by."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Fenn is in the front rank of writers of stories for boys."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Professor and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Lawyer."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are real living boys, with the virtues and faults which characterize the transition stage between boyhood and manhood. The Cornish fishermen are drawn from life, they are racy of the soil, salt with the sea-water, and they stand out from the pages in their jerseys and sea-b... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An excellent story, the interest being sustained from first to last. This is, both in its intention and the way the story is told, one of the best books of its kind which has come before us this year."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Fenn is at his best in 'Patienc... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Manville Fenn has here hit upon a capital idea.... This is among the best of the boys' books of the season."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This sort of book encourages independence of character, develops resource, and teaches a boy to keep his eyes open."
},
... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Log of the Flying Fish is thoroughly healthy and unexceptionable in tone, and may be unhesitatingly placed in the hands of"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Collingwood carries us off for another cruise at sea, in 'The Congo Rovers,' and boys will need no pressing to join the daring crew, which seeks adventures and meets with any number of them in the forests and pestilential fogs of the Congo."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pirate Island."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A capital story of the sea; indeed in our opinion the author is superior in some respects as a marine novelist to the better known Mr. Clarke Russell."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The best of these books.... The events are described with minuteness and care. The re... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of the best issues, if not absolutely the best, of Defoe's work which has ever appeared."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Editing"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of the many editions of Defoe's immortal story that have passed through our hands in recent years, we are inclined to rank this the most desirable as a present for a good boy."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Gordon Browne is, to my thinking, incomparably the most artistic, spirited, and brilliant of our illustrators of books for boys, and one of the most humorous also, as his illustrations of 'Gulliver' amply testify."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By help of the adm... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The stories are admirably chosen. It is a book to be coveted by all young readers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One of the best, if not the best, boys' book of the season."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Wigwam and the War-path"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Hope's volume is notably good: it gives a very vivid picture of life among the Indians."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All the stories are told well, in simple spirited language and with a fulness of detail that makes them instructive as well as interesting."
}... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Hutcheson bids fair to take a prominent place among our best writers of boys' books."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A full circumstantial narrative such as boys delight in. The ship so sadly destined to wreck on Kerguelen Land is manned by a very life-like party, passengers and crew. The life in the Antarctic Iceland is well treated."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Short stories of an altogether unexceptionable character, with adventure sufficient for a dozen books of its size."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Hutcheson is master of a capital style for boy readers."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A capital book; full of startling incident, clever dialogue, admirable descriptions of sky and water in all their aspects, and plenty of fun."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is the first appearance of the author as a writer of books for boys, and the success is s... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A book which most boys will thoroughly enjoy. It is rattling, adventurous, and romantic, and the stories are thoroughly healthy in tone, and written by a skilful hand."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another of those pleasant stories which are always acceptable, especially perhaps to girls standing on the debatable ground between girlhood and young ladyhood."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A good girl's story-book. The plot is interesting, and the heroine, Ruth, a... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is no slight thing, in an age of rubbish, to get a story so pure and healthy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One of the most pleasing stories for young people that we have met with of late years. There is in it a freshness, simplicity, and naturalness very engagin... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The authoress has very great insight into child nature."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All is pleasant, nice reading, with a little knowledge of natural history and other matters gently introduced and divested of dryness."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prettily told and prettily illustrated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure to be a great favourite with young children."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The real charm of the volume lies in the illustrations. Every one is a success. With birds and mice and insects the artist is equally at home; but his birds above all are inimitable."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The author has done her work extremely well, and has ... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Young people who appreciate 'Tom Brown's School-days' will find this story a worthy companion to that fascinating book. There is the same manliness of tone, truthfulness of outline, avoidance of exaggeration and caricature, and healthy morality as characterized the masterpiece o... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This book is of unusual merit. It breathes out good thoughts in earnest and true tones that speak to the heart."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Full of stirring interest, genuine pictures of real life, and pervaded by a broad and active sympathy for the true and good."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a clever, and what is better still, a good book, written with a freshness and power which win the reader's sympathies."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Told in the author's usual winsome style, which holds the reader spell-bound from first to last."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A genial and rollicking tale. It is a regular boys' book, and a very cheery and wholesome one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is everything that a boy's book should be--healthy in teaching, instructive, yet never dull. Mr. Frith is a thorough master of boy nature."
... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The narrative is crushed full of stirring incident, and is sure to be a prime favourite with boys."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Full of striking incident, is very fairly illustrated, and may safely be chosen as sure to prove interesting to young people of both sexes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One of the best accounts of the Crusades it has been our privilege to read. The book cannot fail... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rye-House Plot."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A romantic love episode, whose true characters are life-like beings, not dry sticks as in many historical tales."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The character of the heroine, Ruth, is singularly pretty and a... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The opening chapter, with its description of Necton Fair, will forcibly remind many readers of George Eliot. The style is clear and attractive, and taken altogether it is a delightful story."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A pretty story, and well told. The plot is cleverly constructed, and the moral is excellent."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We may safely predict that this book will be voraciously read by every boy into whose hands it may come: and no boy will read it without being thereby better fitted to fight the battle of life."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Either of these volumes will be a gift beyond price for studious lads."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Such a volume may providentially stir up some youths by the divine fire kindled by these 'great of old' to lay open other lands, and show their vast resources."
}
... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The volume will fairly hold its place among those which make the smaller ways of history pleasant and attractive. It may safely be selected as a gift-book, in which the interest will not be exhausted with one reading."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stories of the Sea"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Next to an original sea-tale of sustained interest come well-sketched collections of maritime peril and suffering which awaken the sympathies by the realism of fact. 'Stories of the Sea,' are a very good specimen of the kind."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Field, Flood, and Forest,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The editor has beyond all question succeeded admirably.... It cannot fail to be read with interest and advantage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All admirably told. It will be counted one of the b... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A very delightful book for children, which deserves to find a place in every nursery."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An excellent book for children, which should take its place beside Lewis Carroll's unique works."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glaucia ... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a charmingly told story. It is the sort of book that all girls and some boys like, and can only get good from."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The book is throughout most interesting, and shows in a very natural manner the rough habits and usages in Saxon Engl... |
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"from": "human",
"value": "My Mistress the Queen"
}
] |
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"from": "human",
"value": "The style is pure and graceful, the presentation of manners and character has been well studied, and the story is full of interest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is a charming book. The old-time sentiment which pervades the volume renders it all the more alluri... |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hetty Gray"
}
] |
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