Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863–1944)

"Q" opens the collection with a story called "The Roll-Call of the Reef". Then follow stories entitled: The Monkey Flower, The Czarina's Violet, Old Aeson, A Pair of Hands, Onca Aboard the Lugger, The Bridals of Ysselmonde, The Conspiracy aboard the "Midas", The Paupers, Our Lady of Gwithian, Phoebus on Halzaphron, Pipes in Arcady, John and the Ghosts, The Two Householders, The Small People, Psyche, The Magic Shadow, and Oceanus. All of the stories have a hint of the supernatural in their subject matter. At the back of the book is a list of the first 169 issues of the Kings Treasuries Series.… (más)

I really enjoyed this yarn. But then it's a of a genre intended to keep teenage boys entertained in the early 20th Century and I have always enjoyed those stories by authors such as, Strang, Henty, Kingston and Ballantyne - even though I am and old dude now. What the storyline is doesn't matter much. This one visits Cornwall, Corsica and Genoa in the 1700s and it does include a couple of love interests; good, meaty, standard stuff for me.
My copy is an abridgement presented in one of the nice little Kings Treasuries of Literature books.… (más)