350 pages
English language
Published Nov. 14, 1907 by The Federal Book Company.
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The adventures of the son of a Scotch officer in French service. The boy, brought up by a Glasgow bailie, is arrested for aiding a Jacobite agent, escapes, is wrecked on the French coast, reaches Paris, and serves with the French army at Dettingen. He kills his father's foe in a duel, and escaping to the coast, shares the adventures of Prince Charlie, but finally settles happily in Scotland.
"Ronald, the hero, is very like the hero of 'Quentin Durward.' The lad's journey across France, and his hairdbeadth escapes, make up as good a narrative of the kind as we have ever read. For freshness of treatment and variety of incident Mr. Henty has surpassed himself."--Spectator
All of the above from a ~1900 A. L. Burt catalog.
Subjects
- Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788 -- Fiction.
- Fontenoy, Battle of, Fontenoy, Hainaut, Belgium, 1745 -- Fiction.
- Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746 -- Fiction.