Blackwood’s

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32068, 16 August 1969, Page 4

Blackwood’s

Blackwood’s of Edinburgh have published three more collections of stories on specific subjects taken from “Blackwood's Magazine.” More than 300 volumes of the magazine have been searched for the selections. "Great Escape Tales” includes stories about a sailor’s lone escape from Napoleonic France, about Churchill’s escape from Pretoria, and reaches our present age with the story of a desperate leap to freedom over the Berlin Wall. “Hidden Tales of Treasure” takes the reader all over the world —to pirates’ treasure in the Cocos Islands, to Colonel Fawcett’s “lost cities” in South America, to Tobermory in Scotland where a Spanish galleon reputedly sank, and to Arabia to the Queen of Sheba’s gold mine. “Ghost Tales” inciudes 13 very good stories of ghosts grave, and ghosts gay. The standard of writing in "“Blackwood’s Magazine” is known to be consistently high; it goes without saying, therefore, that their literary style will enhance enjoyment of these stories. The volumes (in hard back) are in a Jze convenient to be put ’/n a large ■ pocket, or for reading in bed.