Bauer Books & Jules Verne 
The Secret of the Island (Illustrated Edition) 

It formed the third and

completing part of the Mysterious Island set of tales of adventure.

We may count it, taken separately, as next to Robinson Crusoe and

possibly Treasure Island, the best read and the best appreciated book

in all that large group of island-tales and sea-stories to which it

belongs. It gained its vogue immediately in France, Great Britain,

and overseas besides being translated, with more or less despatch,

into other European tongues. M. Jules Verne must indeed have

gained enough by it and its two connective tales to have acquired an

island of his own.