Mr.
Grey, the uncle, did not hesitate to employ a ruffian to kill the lad.
The plan failed, and Gilbert Grey, once Tom the bootblack, came into a comfortable fortune.

This is one of Mr.Alger's best stories.
Dan the Newsboy.

By HORATIO ALGER, JR.

12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00.
Dan Mordaunt and his mother live in a poor tenement, and the lad is pluckily trying to make ends meet by selling papers in the streets of New York.

A little heiress of six years is confided to the care of the Mordaunts.