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; Mayne Reid Outdone! We have the pleasure of introducing to the one hundred thousand reg. ular readers of the “*Standard Favorites,” Beadle’s Dime Novels, in the issue of Tuesday, March 28 (No. 226) a new writ: r, and & TOMAaNte as beautiful, strange and striking as any thing that ever fell from the prolific pen of that * Wizard of Border Story,” CAprarn M AYNE HEID, with whom the writer of this now announced work was long associated, "THE MUSTANG-HUNTERS: The Beautiful Amazon of the Hidden Valley A TALE OF THE STAKED PLAINS. | BY FREDERICK WHITTAKER. ~ The scene of this novel is in North-western Texas, in the celebrated . Llano Estacado or Staked Plains—a region of arid waste, over which even the fieree Comanche rides with dread. Lying between the fastnesse, o; the Grand Sierras, it is rarely reached by adventurers; hence bas become a favorite haunt of the Wrip Horses or Mustangs of the Plains, whose fleetness, hardiness and beauty are renowned. A Black Mustang, of astonishing speed, spirit, and splendor of bearing, lures a young hunter to its pursuit, in which he is nasinted by @ real Texan Ranger and Hunter, and by a young desperado, whose thirst for q p.. man’s blood leads him ever into the Comanche country, Whence that foe as "4 . ‘4 ? Sea three meet with a marvelous experience in = almost unknown -wuste—meet not only savages but a civilization qu “ dazzling to their astonished vision, and out of this meeting springs a life-stroggle anu a love tule that hold the reader in thrall to the end. It is a romance well worthy the series which has given so many noted books to current American literature ; and will meet With great fayor at the hands of our immense audience of constant readers. @& BEADLE’S DIME NOVELS are always kept in Stock by g pe whom all back numbers and all current issues can be obtained ; or thes are sent, post-paid, to any address, on receipt of price, TEN Qiowrs each. BEADLE AND COMPANY, Publishers we _ 98 William Street, New york, comichooks.com