A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales

Jonathan Nield

This page copyright © 2002 Blackmask Online.

http://www.blackmask.com

  • INTRODUCTION.
  • PRE-CHRISTIAN ERA.
  • FIRST CENTURY A.D.
  • SECOND CENTURY.
  • THIRD CENTURY.
  • FOURTH CENTURY.
  • FIFTH CENTURY.
  • SIXTH CENTURY.
  • SEVENTH CENTURY.
  • *EIGHTH CENTURY.
  • NINTH CENTURY.
  • TENTH CENTURY.
  • ELEVENTH CENTURY.
  • TWELFTH CENTURY.
  • THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
  • FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
  • FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
  • SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
  • SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
  • EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
  • NINETEENTH CENTURY (EARLY AND MID)
  • * SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF NOTABLE NOVELS,
  • SUGGESTED COURSES OF READING—JUVENILE.
  • ENGLISH HISTORY SINCE THE CONQUEST (Boys).
  • ENGLISH HISTORY SINCE THE CONQUEST (GIRLS).
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • NOTE.

  • This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com
    "These historical novels have taught all men this truth, which
    looks like a truism, and yet was as good as unknown to writers
    of history and others, till so taught: that the bygone ages of
    the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols,
    state-papers, controversies, and abstractions of men."
     
    —Carlyle on the Waverley novels.

    INTRODUCTION.

    It is not proposed, in these preliminary remarks, to sketch in detail the origin and growth of the Historical Novel; this has already been amply done by Professor Saintsbury and others. I shall be content to approach the subject on its general side, offering, at the same time, some critical suggestions which will, I hope, not be without value to readers of Romance.

    But, first of all, I must explain how the List which follows came to be compiled, and the object I have in offering it. For many years I have been an assiduous reader of novels and tales in which the historical element appeared, supplementing my own reading in this direction by a careful study of all that I could find in the way of Criticism on such works and their writers. Only in this way could I venture on a selection involving a survey of several thousand volumes! With the above understanding, I can say that no book has been inserted without some reason, while I have made all possible effort to obtain accuracy of description. And this leads me to remark, that just in this process of selection do I claim originality for my List. Nearly twenty years ago an excellent "Descriptive Catalogue of Historical Novels and Tales" was published; Mr. H. Courthope Bowen was the compiler,* and I would here mention my indebtedness to him. In Mr. Bowen's list, however, one finds good and bad alike—all the works of even such moderately endowed writers as G. P. R. James, Ainsworth, Grant, etc., are there set down. It seemed to me that, not only was there room for a new list of Historical Novels (Stevenson, Marion Crawford, Conan Doyle, Weyman, Mason, and a number of more or less capable romancists having come forward in the last twenty years), but, also, that more than ever was there a need for some sort of clue in the search for such books. In the last year or two there has been an almost alarming influx in this department of Fiction, and teachers in schools, besides readers in general, may be glad to be saved a somewhat tedious investigation.

    * "A Descriptive Catalogue of Historical Novels and Tales, for the use of School Libraries and Teachers of History," compiled and described by H. Courthope Bowen, M. A. (Edward Stanford, 1882.)

    Having thus attempted to justify the existence of my little "Guide," I pass on to deal with the subject of Historical Fiction itself. Most of us, I suppose, at one time or another have experienced a thrill of interest when some prominent personage, whom we knew well by repute, came before us in the flesh. We watched his manner, and noted all those shades of expression which in another's countenance we should have passed by unheeded. Well, it seems to me that, parallel with this experience, is that which we gain, when, reading some first-rank romance, we encounter in its pages a figure with which History has made us more or less familiar. And I would remark that the great masters do not, as a rule, make that mistake which less skilful writers fall into—the mistake of introducing well-known historical figures too frequently. The Cromwell of "Woodstock" has an element of mystery about him, even while he stands out before our mental vision in bold relief. Had Scott brought him more prominently into the plot, and thus emphasized the fictional aspect of his figure, our interest in the story, as such, might have been sustained, but we should have lost that atmosphere of vraisemblance which, under a more careful reserve, the hand of the master has wrought for us.

    But it is not only this introduction of personalities which constitutes a novel "historical"; the mere allusion to real events, or the introduction of dates, may give us sufficient ground for identifying the period with which a novel deals. Of course the question as to whether a particular person or event is truly historical, is not always an easy one to answer. By the adaptation in it of some purely mythical character or event, a novel is no more constituted "historical" than is a Fairy-tale by the adaptation of folklore. King Arthur and Robin Hood are unhistorical, and, if I have ventured to insert in my list certain tales which deal with the latter, it is not on that account, but because other figures truly historical (e.g., Richard I.) appear. As there has been some dispute on this question of the Historical Novel proper, I offer the following definition:—A Novel is rendered Historical by the introduction of dates, personages, or events, to which identification can be readily given. I am quite aware that certain well-known novels which give the general atmosphere of a period—such, for example, as Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" and Mr. Hewlett's "Forest Lovers"—do not come within the scope of my definition; but this is just why I have added a "Supplementary List" of semi-historical tales. And, while I am alluding to this "Supplementary List," I should like to give my reason for omitting from it one remarkable book which has every claim to be considered representative of the mid-nineteenth century. Readers of "John Inglesant" may be reminded that in his interesting preface Mr. Shorthouse alludes to William Smith's philosophical novel—"Thorndale." As a picture of Thought developments in the early Victorian period, the latter work has special historical interest for the philosophical and theological student; in this respect it may be likened to Pater's "Marius the Epicurean," which vividly reproduces the Intellectual ferment of an earlier age. "Thorndale," however, is primarily didactic, and the philosophical dialogues (interesting as these are to the metaphysician) hardly atone to the general reader for an almost entire absence of plot. The above is, doubtless, an altogether extreme instance, but the exclusion of several other works from the category of Romance seems to follow on something like the same grounds. Becker's "Charicles" and "Gallus" are little more than school textbooks, while, turning to a less scholarly quarter, Ainsworth's "Preston Fight," and even his better-known "Guy Fawkes," may be cited as illustrating what Mr. Shorthouse means when he speaks of novels "in which a small amount of fiction has been introduced simply for the purpose of relating History." In all such cases the average novel-reader feels that he has been allured on false pretences. I am well aware that not a few of the books included in my List might be considered to fall under the same ban, but I think it will be found that in most of them there is at least a fair attempt to arouse narrative interest.

    Coming to the List itself, it will be noticed that I have been somewhat sparing in the books given under the "Pre-Christian" heading. Novels dealing with these very far-off times are apt to be unsatisfactory; the mist in which events and personages are enveloped, takes away from that appearance of reality which is the great charm of the historical novel. We are hardly concerned, in reading "Sarchedon" and similar books, to get away from the purely imaginary pictures which spring from the Novelist's own brain, and the danger is that the very elements which add to our interest in the tale as such, will go far to mislead us in our conception of the period dealt with. There is none of that sense of familiarity which we enjoy when reading a sixteenth or seventeenth century romance; in the latter case, the historical background, being easily perceptible, merges for us with the creations of the author's own imagination. Where the writer of an "ancient" romance happens to be a scholar like Ebers, we feel that—so far at least as historical presentment goes—we cannot be far wrong, but the combination of great scholarship and narrative capacity is, alas, too rare!

    I have likewise refrained from giving many tales dealing with Early-Christian times. We are here, it must be admitted, on controversial ground, and under the First Century heading I have endeavoured to insert romances of the highest quality only. For instance, I think that Dr. Abbott's "Philochristus" and Wallace's "Ben Hur" ought to satisfy two different types of readers. And this is the place, doubtless, to say that in my lists will be found books of widely differing merit and aim. School teachers, and others in like capacity, will easily discriminate between authors suitable for juvenile or untrained tastes, and authors whose appeal is specially to those of maturer thought and experience. Differing as much in method and style as in choice of period and character type, Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" and George Eliot's "Romola" have at least this in common—they require a very high degree of intelligence for their due appreciation. Who, among those of us with any knowledge of such works, would dream of recommending them to a youthful reader fresh from the perusal of Miss Yonge's "Little Duke," or Captain Marryatt's "Children of the New Forest"?

    Naturally in a list of this kind there is bound to be very great inequality; certain periods have been wholly ignored by writers of the first rank, while in others we have something like an embarras de richesse. Consequently, I have been compelled, here and there, to insert authors of only mediocre merit. In other cases, again, I have not hesitated to omit works by writers of acknowledged position when these have seemed below the author's usual standard, and where no gap had to be filled. I would instance the James II.- William III. period. Here Stanley Weyman and "Edna Lyall" might have been represented, but, there being no dearth of good novels dealing with both the above reigns, I did not deem it advisable to call in these popular writers at the point which has been very generally considered their lowest. I mention this to show that omissions do not necessarily mean ignorance, though, in covering such an immense ground, I cannot doubt that romances worthy of a place in my list have been overlooked.

    I think many will be surprised to find how large a proportion of our best writers (English and American) have entered the domain of Historical or Semi-Historical Romance. Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, George Meredith, R. L. Stevenson, Hawthorne, Peacock, Charles Kingsley, Henry Kingsley, Charles Reade, Anthony Trollope, Mrs. Gaskell, Walter Besant, Lytton, Disraeli, J. H. Newman, J. A. Froude, and Walter Pater—these are a few of the names which appear in the following pages; while Tolstoy, Dumas, Balzac, George Sand, Victor Hugo, De Vigny, Prosper Merimee, Flaubert, Theophile Gautier, Freytag, Scheffel, Hauff, Auerbach, Manzoni, Perez Galdos, Merejkowski, Topelius, Sienkiewicz, and Jokai are, perhaps, the chief amongst those representing Literatures other than our own.

    "The Last Days of Pompeii," "The Gladiators," "Hypatia," "Harold," "Ivanhoe," "The Talisman," "Maid Marian," "The Last of the Barons," "Quentin Durward," "Romola," "The Cloister and the Hearth," "The Palace of the King," "Westward Ho!", "Kenilworth," "The Chaplet of Pearls," "A Gentleman of France," "John Inglesant," "The Three Musketeers," "Twenty Years After," "Woodstock," "Peveril of the Peak," "Old Mortality," " The Betrothed Lovers" ("I Promessi Sposi"), "Lorna Doone," "The Refugees," "In the Golden Days," "The Courtship of Morice Buckler," "Dorothy Forster," "The Men of the Moss Hags," "Esmond," "The Virginians," "Heart of Midlothian," "Waverley," "The Master of Ballantrae," "Kidnapped," "Catriona," "The Chaplain of the Fleet," "The Seats of the Mighty," "Barnaby Rudge," "A Tale of Two Cities," "War and Peace"—what visions do these mere titles arouse within many of us! And, though most of the books given in my list cannot be described in the same glowing terms as the masterpieces just named, yet many "nests of pleasant thoughts" may be formed through their companionship.

    Hitherto allusion has been mainly in the direction of modern authors, and I would now say a word or two in regard to those of an earlier period who are also represented. Defoe, Fielding, Richardson, Goldsmith, Smollett, Frances Burney, Samuel Lover, John Galt, Maria Edgeworth, Susan Ferrier, William Godwin, Mary Shelley, Fennimore Cooper, J. G. Lockhart, Leigh Hunt, Thos. Moore, Harriet Martineau, J. L. Motley, Horace Smith, Charles Lever, Meadows Taylor, and Wm. Carleton,—these (in greater or less degree) notable names were bound to have a place; and, coming to less distinguished writers, I may mention the brothers Banim, Gerald Griffin, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Lady Morgan, the sisters Porter, W. G. Simms, George Croly, Albert Smith, G. R. Gleig, W. H. Maxwell, Sir Arthur Helps, Eliot Warburton, Lewis Wingfield, Thomas Miller, C. Macfarlane, Grace Aguilar, Anne Manning, and Emma Robinson (author of "Whitefriars"). To G. P. R. James, Harrison Ainsworth, and James Grant I have previously alluded. It has been my endeavour to choose the best examples of all the above-named novelists—a task rendered specially difficult in some cases by the fact of immense literary output. Doubtless not a few of the works so chosen are open to criticism, but they will at least serve to illustrate certain stages in the growth of Historical Romance. With the exclusion of Mrs. Radcliffe, Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. Gore, Lady Blessington, Lady Fullerton, Mrs. Bray, and Mrs. Child, few will, I imagine, find fault; but writers like Miss Tucker (A. L. O. E.) and Miss Emily Holt still find so many readers in juvenile quarters, that it has required a certain amount of courage to place them also on my Index Expurgatorius! Turning once again to writers of the sterner sex, I have ruled out C. R. Maturin, G. W. M. Reynolds, and Pierce Egan, Junr.; and (quitting the "sensational" for the "mildly entertaining") out of the Rev. J. M. Neale's many historical tales I have selected only one—"Theodora Phranza," which, besides being well written, has the merit of dealing with a somewhat neglected period. Stories possessing a background of History are to be found in "Tales from Blackwood," as also in "Wilson's Tales of the Borders," but their extremely slight character seemed scarcely to justify insertion; while not even the high literary position attained by him on other grounds reconciled me to either of Allan Cunningham's novels—"Sir Michael Scott" and "Paul Jones."

    Of the Foreign novelists appearing in my list, several have been already named, but Marchese D'Azeglio, F. D. Guerrazzi, Cesare Cantu, "W. Alexis" (G. Haring), H. Laube, Louise Mulbach (Klara M. Mundt), Nicolas Josika, Viktor Rydberg, Hendrik Conscience, Xavier B. Saintine, Amedee Achard, and "Erckmann-Chatrian" here call for notice as not coming under strictly Contemporary classification. I would forestall the criticism that two writers have been passed over whose fame is greater than any of those just mentioned, viz.: "Stendhal" (Henri Beyle) and Alphonse Daudet. Beyle's "La Chartreuse de Parme," though containing the oft-praised account of Waterloo, is far more Psychological than Historical; and Daudet's "Robert Helmont," while it depicts (under Diary form) certain aspects of the Franco-German War, has hardly any plot running through it. As the Waterloo and Franco-German War periods were amply illustrated in numerous other novels of more assured suitability, I had the less hesitation in deciding against the two works just named. In the selections from Foreign Historical Fiction nothing more has been attempted than to include the leading examples; most of these, it will be found, have been translated into English.

    Before leaving the subject of older writers, it may be mentioned that not a few of the works chosen to represent them are, at the moment, out of print. To anyone objecting that something ought to have been done to indicate this in each separate case, I would urge that the "out of print" line can never be drawn with precision in view of constant reprints as well as of further extinctions.

    Perhaps this introduction may be most fitly concluded by something in the nature of apology for Historical Romance itself. Not only has fault been found with the deficiencies of unskilled authors in that department, but the question has been asked by one or two critics of standing—What right has the Historical Novel to exist at all? More often than not, it is pointed out, the Romancist gives us a mass of inaccuracies, which, while they mislead the ignorant (i.e., the majority?), are an unpardonable offence to the historically-minded reader. Moreover, the writer of such Fiction, though he be a Thackeray or a Scott, cannot surmount barriers which are not merely hard to scale, but absolutely impassable. The spirit of a period is like the selfhood of a human being—something that cannot be handed on; try as we may, it is impossible for us to breathe the atmosphere of a bygone time, since all those thousand- and-one details which went to the building up of both individual and general experience, can never be reproduced. We consider (say) the Eighteenth Century from the purely Historical standpoint, and, while we do so, are under no delusion as to our limitations; we know that a few of the leading personages and events have been brought before us in a more or less disjointed fashion, and are perfectly aware that there is room for much discrepancy between the pictures so presented to us (be it with immense skill) and the actual facts as they took place in such and such a year. But, goes on the objector, in the case of a Historical Romance we allow ourselves to be hoodwinked, for, under the influence of a pseudo- historic security, we seem to watch the real sequence of events in so far as these affect the characters in whom we are interested. How we seem to live in those early years of the Eighteenth Century, as we follow Henry Esmond from point to point, and yet, in truth, we are breathing not the atmosphere of Addison and Steele, but the atmosphere created by the brilliant Nineteenth Century Novelist, partly out of his erudite conception of a former period, and partly out of the emotions and thoughts engendered by that very environment which was his own, and from which he could not escape!

    Well, to all such criticisms it seems to me there are ample rejoinders. In the first place it must be remembered that History itself possesses interest for us more as the unfolding of certain moral and mental developments than as the mere enumeration of facts. Of course, I am aware that the ideal of the Historian is Truth utterly regardless of prejudice and inclination, but, as with all other human ideals, this one is never fully realised, and there is ever that discrepancy between Fact and its Narration to which I just now alluded. This being so, I would ask—Is not the writer of Fiction justified in emphasising those elements of History which have a bearing on life and character in general? There is, doubtless, a wise and an unwise method of procedure. One novelist, in the very effort to be accurate, produces a work which—being neither History nor Fiction—is simply dull; while another, who has gauged the true relation between fact and imagination, knows better than to bring into prominence that which should remain only as a background. After all, there are certain root motives and principles which, though they vary indefinitely in their application, underlie Human Conduct, and are common to all ages alike. Given a fairly accurate knowledge as regards the general history of any period, combined with some investigation into its special manners and customs, there is no reason why a truly imaginative novelist should not produce a work at once satisfying to romantic and historical instincts.

    Again, if it be true that the novelist cannot reproduce the far past in any strict sense, it is also true that neither can he so reproduce the life and events of yesterday. That power of imaginative memory, which all exercise in daily experience, may be held in very different degrees, but its enjoyment is not dependent on accuracy of representation—for, were this so, none of us would possess it. In an analogous manner the writer of Romance may be more or less adequately equipped on the side of History pure and simple, but he need not wait for that which will never come—the power of reproducing in toto a past age. If, in reading what purports to be no more than a Novel, the struggle between Christianity and Paganism (for example), or the unbounded egotism of Napoleon, be brought more vividly before our minds—and this may be done by suggestion as well as by exact relation, then, I would maintain, we are to some extent educated historically, using the word in a large though perfectly legitimate sense.

    I recently read a work which here presents itself as admirably illustrating my meaning. In her too little known "Adventures of a Goldsmith" Miss M. H. Bourchier has contrived to bring forcibly before us the period when Napoleon, fast approaching the zenith of his power, was known in France as the "First Consul." The "man of destiny" himself—appearing on the scene for little more than a brief moment—can in no sense be described as one of the book's characters, and yet the whole plot is so skilfully contrived as to hinge on his personality. We are made to feel the dominating influence of that powerful will upon the fears and hopes of a time brimming over with revolutionary movement. Whether the Chouan revolt is in this particular story accurately depicted for us in all its phases, or whether the motives which impelled certain public characters are therein interpreted aright—both in regard to these and other points there may be room for doubt, but at least the general forces of the period are placed before us in such a way as to drive home the conviction that, be the historical inaccuracies of detail what they may in the eyes of this or that specialist, the picture as a whole is one which, while it rivets our attention as lovers of romance, does no injury to the strictest Historic sense.

    I know well that numerous novels might be cited which, besides abounding in anachronisms, are harmful in that they present us with a misleading conception of some personality or period; moreover, I acknowledge that this defect is by no means confined to romances of an inferior literary order. That Cromwell has been unreasonably vilified, and Mary Queen of Scots misconceived as a saintly martyr— how often are these charges brought against not a few of our leading exponents of Historical Fiction. Let this be fully granted, it remains to ask—To whom were our novelists originally indebted for these misconceptions? Were not the historians of an earlier generation responsible for these wrong judgments? True, the real Science of History—the sifting of evidence, and the discovery and unravelling of ancient documents—may be described as an essentially modern attainment, so it would be unreasonable to blame our older historians for errors which it was largely, if not wholly, beyond their power to overcome. And it is just here that I would emphasise my defence of the Romancist. If Historians themselves have differed (and still differ)! may it not be pleaded on behalf of the Historical Novelist that he also must be judged according to the possibilities of his time? For, while he may have too readily adopted false conceptions in the past, there is no necessity why, in the future, he also—profiting by the growth of Critical investigation—should not have due regard, in the working out of his Historical background, for all the latest "results." And, I would further add, even though it be true that Scott and others have misled us in certain directions, this does not prevent our acknowledgment that, given their aspect of a particular period, it was only fitting that the scheme of their novels should be in harmony with it. If "Bloody Mary" was a cruel hypocrite, then our reading of her period will be influenced by that real (or supposed) fact; but, if further investigation reverses this severe judgment on the woman herself, then, in Heaven's name, let us mould our general conception afresh. The fountains of Romance show no sign of running dry, and, though we may look in vain at the moment for a genius of the very highest type, the Future has possibilities within it which the greatest literary pessimist among us cannot wholly deny. If, then, fault can be found with the older Romancists for the spreading here and there of false historical notions, let us look to future workers in the same sphere for adjustment. I believe, however, that one notable critic has pronounced the mischief already done to be quite irreparable, seeing that the only "History" at all widely spread is that derived from those very romances in which errors are so interwoven with the sentimental interest of the plot itself that readers inevitably "hug their delusions!" But I think that this danger need not be contemplated seriously. The Historical Novel exists primarily as Fiction, and, even though in our waking moments we may be persuaded of the unreality of that "dream" which a Scott or a Dumas has produced for us, we shall still be able to place ourselves again and again under the spell of their delightful influence. Moreover, while admitting Dumas' carelessness of exact detail, it would hardly be contended by the most sceptical that his works (still less those of Scott) are without any background of Historic suggestiveness. Scott, indeed, shows signs of having possessed something of that "detachment" which is one important qualification in the Historian proper; there is a fairness and prevision in his historical judgments which we look for in vain when reading the works of his contemporaries.

    And, having thus touched on what I believe to be the true relation between Romance and History, I may note, as a last word, the use of the Historical Tale to those who have the training of young folk. That "desire to know," which is an essential for all true learning, is sometimes best fostered by methods outside the ordinary School routine. Thus, as regards History, where the text-book fails in arousing interest, the tale may succeed, and, once the spirit of inquiry has been stimulated, half the battle is gained. In saying this I am far from wishing to imply that the reading of romances can ever take the place of genuine historical study. I know well that such a book as Green's "Short History of the English People" may prove to some more fascinating than any novel. There are, however, cases in which recourse may be had to a high-class work of fiction for the attainment of a truer historic sense; while, taken only as supplement to more strictly Academic reading, such a work may prove to have its uses. Considerable discrimination is required—as I have already hinted—in the choice of suitable books, and, as a help in this direction, I have made out (vide "Suggested courses of Reading" at the end of this volume) two special lists for Boys and Girls respectively, which will, I trust, be found useful. If, besides being of help to teachers, my recommendations should lead in any degree to further appreciation of the great masters of Romance, the labour (by no means inconsiderable) expended on this little compilation will be amply rewarded.

    J. N.

    January, 1902.

    NOTE—the order in which the books are placed is, on the whole, according to the periods dealt with; occasionally the grouping decided on has prevented absolute correctness in this respect.

    PRE-CHRISTIAN ERA.

    SARCHEDON — G. J. Whyte Melville Ancient Babylon and the Assyrians W. Thacker Co., and Ward, Lock, Co.

    UARDA — Georg Ebers (trans.) Egypt—Rameses Sesostris Sampson Low Co.

    ZOROASTER — F. Marion Crawford Zoroaster, the Persian Religious Reformer Macmillan Co.

    AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS — Georg Ebers (trans.) Egypt—Amasis and Cambyses, 6th Century B. C. Sampson Low Co.

    THE FALL OF ATHENS — A. J. Church Peloponnesian War Seeley Co.

    A YOUNG MACEDONIAN — A. J. Church Alexander the Great Seeley Co.

    SALAMMBO — Gustave Flaubert (trans.) Rome versus Carthage G. P. Putnam's Sons, and Grant Richards

    THE LION'S BROOD — Duffield Osborne Rome versus Carthage W. Heinemann

    LORDS OF THE WORLD — A. J. Church Rome versus Carthage. Blackie Son

    THE SISTERS — Georg Ehers (trans.) Egypt—Ptolemy Philometer, and Euergetes Sampson Low Co.

    THE HAMMER — A. J. Church and R. Seeley Maccabaean Times Seeley Co.

    DEBORAH — J. M. Ludlow Maccabaean Times J. Nisbet Co.

    HELON'S PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM — F. Strauss (trans.) Judaism in the Century preceding Christ J. Mawman, London, 1824

    PRUSIAS — Ernst Eckstein (trans.) The Slave Revolt under Spartacus. Trubner Co.

    TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO — A. J. Church Rome—Spartacus and Mithridates Blackie Son

    WOE TO THE CONQUERED — Alfred Clark Roman Life, B. C. 73-71 Sampson Low Co.

    A FRIEND OF CAESAR — W. S. Davis Pompey and Caesar Macmillan Co.

    CLEOPATRA — Georg Ebers (trans.) Latter Years of Cleopatra. Sampson Low Co.

    FIRST CENTURY A.D.

    NEAERA — John W. Graham Rome under Tiberius (A. D. 26) Macmillan Co.

    PHILOCHRISTUS — Anonymous Memoirs of a Disciple of Christ Macmillan Co.

    BEN HUR — Lew Wallace Rome in the time of Christ Harper Brothers, and others

    TARRY THOU TILL I COME (Salathiel) — G. Croly Judaism and Christianity (the early struggle) Funk Wagnalls Co.

    AS OTHERS SAW HIM — Anonymous Early Christianity (A. D. 54) W. Heinemann

    BERIC THE BRITON — G. A. Henty Roman Invasion of Britain Blackie Son

    ONESIMUS— Anonymous Memoirs of a Disciple of Paul Macmillan Co.

    QUO VADIS? — H. Sienkiewicz (trans.) Rome in the time of Nero J. M. Dent Co.

    NERO — Ernst Eckstein (trans.) Rome in the time of Nero Trubner Co.

    THE BURNING OF ROME — A. J. Church Rome in the time of Nero Seeley Co.

    ACTE — Hugh Westbury Rome in the time of Nero Bentley

    DARKNESS AND DAWN — Dean Farrar Persecutions under Nero Longmans, Green, Co.

    THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII — Lytton Time of Vespasian Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE GLADIATORS — G. J. Whyte Melville Fall of Jerusalem W. Thacker Co. and Ward, Lock, Co.

    DOMITIA — S. Baring-Gould Time of Domitian Methuen Co.

    MASTERS OF THE WORLD — Mary A. M. Hoppus Time of Domitian Bentley, 1888

    QUINTUS CLAUDIUS — Ernst Eckstein (trans.) Time of Domitian W. S. Gottsberger

    SECOND CENTURY.

    VALERIUS — J. G. Lockhart Time of Trajan (Rome) W. Blackwood Sons

    TO THE LIONS — A. J. Church Christians and the Younger Pliny Seeley Co.

    ANTINOUS — George Taylor (trans.) Time of Hadrian William S. Gottsberger, New York, 1882

    MARIUS THE EPICUREAN — W. Pater Time of Marcus Aurelius Macmillan Co.

    THIRD CENTURY.

    PER ASPERA — Georg Ebers (trans.) Alexandria in time of Emperor Caracalla Sampson Low Co.

    PERPETUA — S. Baring-Gould Nimes—beginning of Third Century Isbister Co.

    THE CAMP ON THE SEVERN — A. D. Crake Persecution in Britain Mowbray Co.

    THE VILLA OF CLAUDIUS — E. L. Cutts Roman occupation of Britain Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

    CALLISTA — J. H. Newman North Africa persecutions Longmans, Green, Co.

    *THE EPICUREAN — Thomas Moore Worship of Isis (Egypt) Downey Co.

    * This tale, it must be admitted, is given a place mainly on account of its literary interest; as a historical romance it has been very severely criticised.

    AURELIAN — W. Ware Rome—late Third Century Warne Co.

    THE LAST DAYS AND FALL OF PALMYRA (ZENOBIA) — W. Ware Zenobia and Longinus Cassell Co. ("Red Library," 1890)

    FOURTH CENTURY.

    HOMO SUM — Georg Ebers (trans.) Christians in Arabia Sampson Low Co.

    *OUR FOREFATHERS (Die Ahnen) — Gustav Freytag (trans.) Germany A. D. 357 Asher Co., 1873

    * The collective title of a series in which the history of a family is made to illustrate successive stages of German Civilisation. The English translation does not extend beyond the first two stories, dealing with the years 357 and 724 respectively; the remaining four stories (published by Hirzel of Leipsic, 1874-80) depict German life in 1226, 1519, 1647, and 1805.

    THE LAST ATHENIAN — V. Rydberg (trans.) Athens A. D. 361 T. B. Peterson Brothers, Philadelphia

    *THE DEATH OF THE GODS — D. Merejkowski (trans.) The Emperor Julian Constable Co.

    * No. 1 of the trilogy "Christ and Anti-Christ."

    JETTA — George Taylor (trans.) Heidelberg under the Romans Trubner Co., 1886

    SERAPIS — Georg Ebers (trans.) Alexandria A. D. 391 Trubner Co., 1885

    A DUKE OF BRITAIN — Sir Herbert Maxwell Picts and Romans W. Blackwood Sons

    FIFTH CENTURY.

    GATHERING CLOUDS — Dean Farrar Chrysostom [late Fourth—early Fifth Century] Longmans, Green, Co.

    CONQUERING AND TO CONQUER — Mrs. Charles Jerome [late Fourth—early Fifth Century] Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

    FABIOLA — Cardinal Wiseman Rome early Fifth Century Burns, 1855

    HYPATIA — Charles Kingsley Alexandria Macmillan Co.

    THE COUNT OF THE SAXON SHORE — A. J. Church Departure of Romans from Britain Seeley Co.

    ATTILA — G. P. R. James Decline of Roman Empire Warne Co.

    FELICITAS — Felix Dahn (trans.) The German Migrations, A. D. 476 Macmillan Co.

    SIXTH CENTURY.

    BUILDERS Of THE WASTE — Thorpe Forrest Britains v. Anglians in Yorkshire Duckworth Co.

    A STRUGGLE FOR ROME — Felix Dahn (trans.) The Ostrogoths and Belisarius R. Bentley, 1878

    ANTONINA — Wilkie Collins Rome in 546 Chatto Windus

    HAVELOK THE DANE — C. W. Whistler Denmark and England T. Nelson Sons

    SHAVEN CROWN — M. Bramston Conversion of the Surrey Border (time of Ethelbert) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

    SEVENTH CENTURY.

    THE SON OF AELLA — Gertrude Hollis Conversion of Northumbria Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

    CAEDWALLA — F. Cowper Saxons in the Isle of Wight Seeley Co.

    THE BRIDE OF THE NILE — Georg Ebers (trans.) Egypt, A. D. 643 Trubner Co.

    *EIGHTH CENTURY.

    * The second tale in Freytag's "Our Forefathers" (vide Fourth Century section) illustrates the Germany of A. D. 724.

    THE INVASION — G. Griffin Ireland and Northern Europe in second half of the Eighth Century Saunders Otley, London, 1832

    NINTH CENTURY.

    A THANE OF WESSEX — C. W. Whistler Ethelwulf (mid Ninth Century) Blackie Son

    THE WOOING OF OSYTH — Kate T. Sizer Edmund the Martyr Jarrold Sons

    *THE KING'S SONS — G. Manville Fenn Alfred and his times E. Nister

    * A very slight but charming story of Alfred's boyhood, specially suited for the very young.

    IN AELFRED'S DAYS and UNDER THE BLACK RAVEN — Paul Creswick Alfred and his times E. Nister

    GOD SAVE KING ALFRED — E. Gilliat Alfred and his times Macmillan Co.

    THE DRAGON AND THE RAVEN — G. A. Henty Alfred and his times Blackie Son

    KING ALFRED'S VIKING — C. W. Whistler Alfred and his times T. Nelson Sons

    A HERO KING — Eliza F. Pollard Alfred and his times Partridge Co.

    TWIXT DAYDAWN AND LIGHT — Gordon Stables Alfred and his times J. F. Shaw Co.

    A LION OF WESSEX — Tom Bevan Alfred and his times Partridge Co.

    TENTH CENTURY.

    THE LITTLE DUKE — Charlotte M. Yonge Normandy—Richard the Fearless Macmillan Co.

    EKKEHARD — Scheffel (trans.) Germany—The Huns, Sampson Low Co.

    EDWY THE FAIR — A. D. Crake Britain—Dunstan Longmans, Green, Co.

    THE VIKINGS OF THE BALTIC — G. W. Dasent The Vikings—last quarter of Tenth Century Chapman Hall, 1875

    ELEVENTH CENTURY.

    OLAF THE GLORIOUS — Robert Leighton Russia and Norway Blackie Son

    THE FALL OF ASGARD — Julian Corbett St. Olaf's Days Macmillan Co.

    KING OLAF'S KINSMAN — C. W. Whistler Ethelred the Unready Blackie Son

    WULFRIC THE WEAPON THANE — C. W. Whistler Edmund Ironside Blackie Son

    ALFGAR THE DANE — A. D. Crake Edmund Ironside Longmans, Green, Co.

    EDWARD THE EXILE — Mary Davidson Edward the Confessor's period (abroad) Hodder Stoughton

    HAROLD — Lytton The Norman Conquest George Routledge Sons

    WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR — Sir Charles Napier The Norman Conquest George Routledge, 1858

    THE CAMP OF REFUGE — C. Macfarlane The Norman Conquest Constable Co.

    HEREWARD THE WAKE — Charles Kingsley The Norman Conquest Macmillan Co.

    THE RIVAL HEIRS — A. D. Crake The Norman Conquest Longmans, Green, Co.

    WULF THE SAXON — G. A. Henty The Norman Conquest Blackie Son

    RUFUS, OR THE RED KING — Anonymous William II. Constable Co. (reprint announced)

    IN THE DAYS OF ST. ANSELM — Gertrude Hollis William II. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

    COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS — Scott First Crusade A. C. Black

    GOD WILLS IT — W. S. Davis First Crusade Macmillan Co.

    TWELFTH CENTURY.

    PABO THE PRIEST — S. Baring-Gould Time of Henry I. Methuen Co.

    A LEGEND OF READING ABBEY — C. Macfarlane Time of Stephen Constable Co.

    THE KNIGHT OF THE GOLDEN CHAIN — R. D. Chetwode Time of Stephen C. A. Pearson

    VIA CRUCIS — F. Marion Crawford Second Crusade Macmillan Co.

    THE BETROTHED — Scott Henry II. A. C. Black

    FOREST OUTLAWS — E. Gilliat Henry II. Seeley Co.

    IN HIS NAME — E. E. Hale The Waldenses Seeley Co.

    THE TALISMAN — Scott Richard I. A. C. Black

    IVANHOE — Scott Richard I. A. C. Black

    RICHARD YEA-AND-NAY — Maurice Hewlett Richard I. Macmillan Co.

    MAID MARIAN — Thomas Love Peacock Richard I. Macmillan Co.

    THE BLUE BANNER — Leon Cahun (trans.) Period of Crusades and the Mongol Conquest (late Twelfth to early Thirteenth Century). Sampson Low Co.

    THIRTEENTH CENTURY.

    ROYSTON GOWER — Thomas Miller Time of John Colburn, 1838

    RUNNYMEDE AND LINCOLN FAIR — J. G. Edgar Time of John (the Charter) Ward, Lock, Co.

    WALDEMAR — B. S. Ingemann (trans.) Denmark, 1204 Saunders Otley, 1841

    THE MOST FAMOUS LOBA — N. K. Blissett Persecution of the Albigenses—Carcassonne Wm. Blackwood Sons

    PHILIP AUGUSTUS — G. P. R. James France in early Thirteenth Century Warne Co.

    LA BATTAGLIA DI BENEVENTO — F. D. Guerrazzi Italy—period of Emperor Frederick II. Guiseppe Maspero, Milan, 1829

    THE COUNTESS TEKLA and THE STRONG ARM — Robert Barr Germany mid-Thirteenth Century Methuen Co.

    'NEATH THE HOOF OF THE TARTAR; OR, THE SCOURGE OF GOD — Baron Nicolas Josika (trans.) Hungary—the Tartar Invasion Jarrold Sons

    A CLERK OF OXFORD — E. Everett Green Henry III.—Barons' Wars T. Nelson Sons

    HOW I WON MY SPURS — J. G. Edgar Henry III.—Barons' Wars Ward, Lock, Co.

    A STOUT ENGLISH BOWMAN — E. Pickering Period of Henry III. Blackie Son

    THE ROBBER BARON OF BEDFORD CASTLE — A. J. Foster and E. C. Cuthell Period of Henry III. T. Nelson Sons

    THE THIRSTY SWORD — Robert Leighton Norse Invasion of Scotland, 1262-3 Blackie Son

    THE PRINCE AND THE PAGE — Charlotte M. Yonge 8th Crusade Macmillan Co.

    THE KING'S REEVE — E. Gilliat Time of Edward I. Seeley Co.

    THE LORD OF DYNEOVER — E. Everett Green Time of Edward I. T. Nelson Sons

    FOURTEENTH CENTURY.

    THE SCOTTISH CHIEFS — Jane Porter Scotch Wars—Wallace J. M. Dent Co.

    IN FREEDOM'S CAUSE — G. A. Henty Wallace and Bruce Blackie Son

    CASTLE DANGEROUS — Scott Scotch Wars A. C. Black

    THE DAYS OF BRUCE — G. Aguilar Edward II.—Bruce Warne Co. and others

    THE CHEVALIER OF THE SPLENDID CREST — Sir Herbert Maxwell Edward II.—Bruce W. Blackwood Sons

    THE WHISTLING MAID — E. Rhys Wales in time of Edward II. Hutchinson Co.

    MARCO VISCONTI — T. Grossi (trans.) Italy, early Fourteenth Century Geo. Routledge Sons, 1877

    MARGHERITA PUSTERLA — Cesare Cantu Italy, early Fourteenth Century Felice Le Monnier, Florence, 1839

    RIENZI — Lytton Rome, middle of Fourteenth Century Geo. Routledge Sons

    IN THE SHADOW OF THE CROWN — M. Bidder Edward II.—Edward III. Constable Co.

    *THE COUNTESS ALYS (in "New Canterbury Tales") — Maurice Hewlett Period of Edward III. Constable Co.

    * Mr. Hewlett's volume ought not to be described (I have seen it so in one quarter) as dealing with the time of Henry VI. The "tales" are supposed to be told in 1450 by Pilgrims on their way to Canterbury.

    THE WHITE COMPANY — Conan Doyle Period of Edward III. Smith, Elder, Co.

    ST. GEORGE FOR ENGLAND — G. A. Henty Period of Edward III. Blackie Son

    CRECY AND POICTIERS — J. G. Edgar Period of Edward III. Ward, Lock, Co.

    THE LANCES OF LYNWOOD — Charlotte M. Yonge Period of Edward III. Macmillan Co.

    GOD, THE KING, MY BROTHER — Mary F. Nixon Roulet Period of Edward III. (Spain) Ward, Lock, Co.

    GOD SAVE ENGLAND — F. Breton Period of Edward III. (Winchelsea and Rye) Grant Richards

    IN THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY — E. Everett Green Crecy, taking of Calais, T. Nelson Sons

    JOHN STANDISH — E. Gilliat Richard II.—Wat Tyler Seeley Co.

    ROBERT ANNYS, POOR PRIEST — Annie N. Meyer Richard II.—Wat Tyler Macmillan Co.

    THE BANNER OF ST. GEORGE — M. Bramston Richard II.—Wat Tyler Duckworth Co.

    A MARCH ON LONDON — G. A. Henty Richard II.—Wat Tyler Blackie Son

    OTTERBOURNE — Anonymous Battle of Otterbourne, 1388 R. Bentley, 1832

    KATE CAMERON OF BRUX — J. E. Muddock Scotland, late Fourteenth Century Digby, Long, Co.

    THE LION OF FLANDERS — Hendrik Conscience (trans.) France, late Fourteenth Century Burns Oates, 1881

    THE LION OF ST. MARK — G. A. Henty Venice, late Fourteenth Century Blackie Son

    KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS — H. Sienkiewicz (trans.) Poland—The Teutonic Knights J. M. Dent Co.

    FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

    PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC, BY THE SIEUR LOUIS DE CONTE — Mark Twain Joan of Arc Chatto Windus

    A NOBLE PURPOSE NOBLY WON — Miss Manning Joan of Arc Arthur Hall, Virtue, Co., 1862

    A MONK OF FIFE — A. Lang Joan of Arc Longmans, Green, Co.

    THE CAGED LION — Charlotte M. Yonge Scotland, early Fifteenth Century Macmillan Co.

    THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH — Scott Scotland, early Fifteenth Century A. C. Black

    OLD MARGARET — Henry Kingsley Ghent, in early Fifteenth Century Ward, Lock, Co.

    THE GLEAMING DAWN — C. Baker The Hussites Chapman Hall

    ISABELLA ORSINI — F. D. Guerrazzi Italy—The Medici Felice le Monnier, Florence, 1844

    BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER — G. A. Henty Period of Henry IV. Blackie Son

    IN THE DAYS OF PRINCE HAL — H. Elrington Henry IV.—Henry V. Blackie Son

    A CHAMPION OF THE FAITH — J. M. Callwell Henry IV.—Henry V. Blackie Son

    AGINCOURT — G. P. R. James Henry V. Warne Co.

    AT AGINCOURT — G. A. Henty Henry V. Blackie Son

    BY WEEPING CROSS — Lady Laura Ridding Southern France, 1424 Hodder Stoughton

    NOEMI — S. Baring Gould Guienne—Time of Charles VII. Methuen Co.

    THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD — James Grant James II. of Scotland Geo. Routledge Sons

    BLACK DOUGLAS — S. R. Crockett James II. of Scotland Smith, Elder, Co.

    THE CARDINAL'S PAGE — C. Baker Bohemia, middle of Fifteenth Century Chapman Hall

    THE PRINCE OF INDIA — Lew Wallace Fall of Constantinople, 1453 Harper Brothers

    THEODORA PHRANZA — J. M. Neale Fall of Constantinople, 1453 J. Masters, 1857

    TWO PENNILESS PRINCESSES — Charlotte M. Yonge Period of Henry VI. Macmillan Co.

    THE LAST OF THE BARONS — Lytton Wars of the Roses Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE BLACK ARROW — R. L. Stevenson Wars of the Roses Cassell Co.

    GRISLY GRISSELL — Charlotte M. Yonge Wars of the Roses Macmillan Co.

    IN THE WARS OF THE ROSES — E. Everett Green Wars of the Roses T. Nelson Sons

    HOW DICKON CAME BY HIS NAME (in "The Deserter and other Stories") — Harold Frederic Wars of the Roses Lothrop Publishing Co.

    WHERE AVON INTO SEVERN FLOWS (in "The Deserter and other Stories") — Harold Frederic Wars of the Roses Lothrop Publishing Co.

    THE CHANTREY PRIEST OF BARNET — A. J. Church Wars of the Roses Seeley Co.

    THE WOODMAN — G. P. R. James Time of Richard III. Warne Co.

    RED ROSE AND WHITE — Alfred Armitage Time of Richard III. J. Macqueen

    PERKIN WARBECK — Mary Shelley Richard III.—Henry VII. Colburn Bentley, 1830

    THE HEIR OF HASCOMBE HALL — E. Everett Green Time of Henry VII. T. Nelson Sons

    THE CAPTAIN OF THE WIGHT — F. Cowper Time of Henry VII. Seeley Co.

    WILD HUMPHRY KYNASTON — H. Hudson Shrewsbury (1490-1493) Kegan, Paul, Co.

    THE YELLOW FRIGATE — James Grant Scotland, late Fifteenth Century Geo. Routledge Sons

    MARY OF BURGUNDY — G. P. R. James Ghent (1456-1477) Warne Co.

    THE DOVE IN THE EAGLES NEST — Charlotte M. Yonge Time of Maximilian (1472-1531) Macmillan Co.

    THE BURGOMASTER OF BERLIN — Wilibald Alexis (trans.) Germany, late 15th Century Saunders Otley, London, 1843

    QUENTIN DURWARD — Scott A. C. Black France—Louis XI.

    ANNE OF GRIERSTEIN — Scott Charles the Bold, Margaret of Anjou, A. C. Black

    MARIETTA — F. Marion Crawford Venice, 1470 Macmillan Co.

    DESIDERIO — Edmund G. Gardner Florence—Savonarola. J. M. Dent Co.

    ROMOLA — George Eliot Florence—Savonarola. W. Blackwood Sons

    NOTRE DAME — Victor Hugo (trans.) Paris, late Fifteenth Century J. M. Dent Co.

    THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH — Charles Reade Eve of the Reformation (Parents of Erasmus) Chatto Windus

    THE RESURRECTION OF THE GODS — D. Merejkowski (trans) Leonardo da Vinci Constable Co.

    THE VALE OF CEDARS — Grace Aguilar Jewish Persecution in Spain Walter Scott and others

    THE BLACK DISC — Albert Lee Conquest of Granada Digby, Long, Co.

    LEILA — Lytton Conquest of Granada Geo. Routledge Sons

    WESTWARD WITH COLUMBUS — Gordon Stables Christopher Columbus, 1492 Blackie Son

    THE GOD SEEKER — P. Rosegger (trans.) The Styrian Alps, 1493 G. P. Putnam's Sons

    LITTLE NOVELS OF ITALY — Maurice Hewlett Italian manners from early Fourteenth to late Fifteenth Century Macmillan Co.

    SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

    THE HONOUR OF SAVELLI — Levett Yeats Italy—the Borgias Sampson Low Co.

    THE CHALLENGE OF BARLETTA — M. D'Azeglio (trans.) Gonsalvo di Cordova, W. H. Allen Co., 1880

    THE MAID OF FLORENCE; OR, NICCOLO DE' LAPI — M. D'Azeglio (trans.) Florence, 1529-1530 R. Bentley, 1853

    TRUE HEART — F. Breton Switzerland, 1514-25 (Erasmus, Grant Richards

    IN THE BLUE PIKE — Georg Ebers (trans.) Germany—time of Maximilian Sampson Low Co.

    CHRONICLES OF THE SCHONBERG COTTA FAMILY — Mrs. Charles The Reformation T. Nelson Sons

    BARBARA BLOMBERG — Georg Ebers. (trans.) Charles V. and Luther Sampson Low Co.

    LICHTENSTEIN — Hauff (trans.) Germany, early Sixteenth Century E. Nister

    IN THE OLDEN TIME — Miss Roberts Germany, early Sixteenth Century Longmans, Green, Co.

    THE BRAES Of YARROW — C. Gibbon James V. of Scotland (Flodden) Chatto Windus

    IN THE KING'S FAVOR — J. E. Muddock James V. of Scotland (Flodden) J. Digby

    MARY OF LORRAINE — James Grant Battle of Pinkie, 1547 Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE SHROUDED FACE — Owen Rhoscomyl Wales in Tudor times C. A. Pearson

    BY RIGHT OF CONQUEST — G. A. Henty Conquest of Mexico Blackie Son

    THE FAIR GOD — Lew Wallace Conquest of Mexico Warne Co.

    MONTEZUMA'S DAUGHTER — H. Rider Haggard Conquest of Mexico Longmans, Green, Co.

    THE INCA'S RANSOM — Albert Lee Conquest of Peru Partridge Co.

    THE HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THOMAS MORE — Miss Manning Period of Henry VIII. J. C. Nimmo

    HENRY VIII. AND HIS COURT; OR, CATHERINE PARR — Louise Muhlbach (trans.) Period of Henry VIII. D. Appleton Co.

    WINDSOR CASTLE — Harrison Ainsworth Period of Henry VIII. Geo. Routledge Sons

    DEFENDER OF THE FAITH — Frank Mathew Period of Henry VIII. John Lane

    MY FRIEND ANNE — Jessie Armstrong Period of Henry VIII. Warne Co.

    THE ARMOURER'S 'PRENTICES — Charlotte M. Yonge Period of Henry VIII. Macmillan Co.

    THE HOUSE OF THE WIZARD — M. Imlay Taylor Period of Henry VIII. Gay Bird

    WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER — E. Caskoden Period of Henry VIII. Sands Co.

    THE WHITE QUEEN — Russell Garnier Mary Tudor, 1514 Harper Brothers

    FRESTON TOWER — R. Cobbold Time of Wolsey Simpkin, 1850

    WESTMINSTER ABBEY — Author of "Whitefriars" Wolsey, Cranmer, 1527 Routledge Sons

    LIKE A RASEN FIDDLER — Mary E. Shipley Destruction of the Monasteries, 1536 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

    UNDER BAYARD'S BANNER — Henry Frith Chevalier de Bayard Cassell Co.

    THE TWO DIANAS — Dumas (translation) Period of Francis I. J. M. Dent Co.

    JOHN OF STRATHBOURNE — R. D. Chetwode Period of Francis I. C. A. Pearson

    MARGUERITE DE ROBERVAL — T. G. Marquis Period of Francis I. Fisher Unwin

    A WARD OF THE KING — Katherine S. Macquoid Period of Francis I. John Long

    ST. LEON — William Godwin Battle of Pavia, 1525 G. G. J. Robinson, London, 1799

    THE BRIGAND — G. P. R. James France, middle of Sixteenth Century Warne Co.

    ASCANIO — Dumas (translation) France, middle of Sixteenth Century (1540) J. M. Dent Co.

    THE PAGE OF THE DUKE OF SAVOY — Dumas (translation) Period of Emperor Charles V. (1528-80) J. M. Dent Co.

    ROYAL FAVOUR — A. S. C. Wallis (translation) Time of Melanchthon and Eric XIV. of Sweden Sonnenschein Co.

    THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER — Mark Twain Edward VI. Chatto Windus

    THE MAID OF LONDON BRIDGE — S. Gibney Edward VI. Jarrold Sons

    THE COLLOQUIES OF EDWARD OSBORNE — Miss Manning Edward VI.—Mary. J. C. Nimmo

    SEETHING DAYS — Caroline C. Holroyd Edward VI.—Mary. A. D. Innes Co.

    THE TOWER OF LONDON — Harrison Ainsworth Period of Mary Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE ROYAL SISTERS — Frank Mathew Period of Mary J. Long

    LEST WE FORGET — Joseph Hocking Period of Mary Ward, Lock, Co.

    THE STORY OF FRANCIS CLUDDE — Stanley Weyman England and the Netherlands Cassell Co.

    THE SCARLET JUDGES — E. F. Pollard The Netherlands—Period of Inquisition and Revolt against Spain Partridge Co.

    MY LADY OF ORANGE — H. C. Bailey The Netherlands—Period of Inquisition and Revolt against Spain Longmans, Green, Co.

    BY PIKE AND DYKE — G. A. Henty The Netherlands—Period of Inquisition and Revolt against Spain Blackie Son

    BY ENGLAND'S AID — G. A. Henty The Netherlands—Period of Inquisition and Revolt against Spain Blackie Son

    LYSBETH — H. Rider Haggard The Netherlands—Period of Inquisition and Revolt against Spain Longmans, Green, Co.

    TRUE TO THE PRINCE — Gertrude Bell The Netherlands—Period of Inquisition and Revolt against Spain Digby Long

    IN TROUBLED TIMES — A. S. C. Wallis (translation) The Netherlands—Period of Inquisition and Revolt against Spain Sonnenschein Co.

    THE MASTER BEGGARS — L. Cope Cornford The Netherlands—Period of Inquisition and Revolt against Spain J. M. Dent Co.

    *LUDOVIC AND GERTRUDE — Hendrik Conscience (translation) The Netherlands—Period of Inquisition and Revolt against Spain J. Hodges

    * Told from the Roman Catholic standpoint.

    THE BEGGARS — J. B. de Liefde The Netherlands—Period of Inquisition and Revolt against Spain Hodder Stoughton

    FOR FAITH AND FATHERLAND — M. Bramston The Netherlands—Period of Inquisition and Revolt against Spain Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

    SHUT IN — E. Everett Green Siege of Antwerp T. Nelson Sons

    THE SPANISH BROTHERS — Anonymous Spain—The Inquisition T. Nelson Sons

    IN FAIR GRANADA — E. Everett Green Spain—Time of Philip II. T. Nelson Sons

    IN THE PALACE OF THE KING — F. Marion Crawford Spain—Time of Philip II. Macmillan Co.

    THE TRAITOR'S WAY — S. Levett Yeats France—Conspiracy of Amboise Longmans, Green, Co.

    ABOUT CATHERINE DE MEDICI — Balzac (translation) Catherine de' Medici and her Policy J. M. Dent Co.

    KLYTIA — George Taylor (trans.) Germany—Erastus Sampson Low Co.

    FOR THE RELIGION and A MAN OF HIS AGE — Hamilton Drummond France—Coligny, Smith, Elder, Co. and Ward, Lock, Co.

    MARGUERITE DE VALOIS — Dumas (translation) France—Coligny, St. Bartholomew J. M. Dent Co.

    A CHRONICLE OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES IX. — Prosper Merimee (trans.) France—Coligny, St. Bartholomew J. C. Nimmo, 1890

    THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF — Stanley Weyman France—Coligny, St. Bartholomew Longmans, Green, Co.

    COUNT HANNIBAL — Stanley Weyman France—Coligny, St. Bartholomew Smith, Elder, Co.

    THE CHAPLET OF PEARLS — Charlotte M. Yonge France—Coligny, St. Bartholomew Macmillan Co.

    AN ENEMY TO THE KING — R. N. Stephens Henry of Guise Methuen Co.

    A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE — Stanley Weyman Period of the League Longmans, Green, Co.

    THE KING'S HENCHMAN and UNDER THE SPELL OF THE FLEUR DE LIS — W. H. Johnson Henry of Navarre Gay Bird

    THE HELMET OF NAVARRE — Bertha Runkle Henry of Navarre Macmillan Co.

    THE KING'S PAWN — Hamilton Drummond Henry of Navarre W. Blackwood Sons

    CHEVALIER D'AURIAC — Levett Yeats Henry of Navarre Longmans, Green, Co.

    FROM THE MEMOIRS OF A MINISTER OF FRANCE — Stanley Weyman Henry of Navarre Cassell Co.

    LA DAME DE MONSOREAU — Dumas (translation) French Court, (1578) J. M. Dent Co.

    THE FORTY FIVE — Dumas (translation) French Court, (1585) J. M. Dent Co.

    BEATRICE CENCI — F. D. Guerrazzi (translation) Italy, late Sixteenth Century Bosworth Harrison, London, 1858

    THE TERRIBLE CZAR — Count A. K. Tolstoy (translation) Russia—Ivan IV. Sampson Low Co.

    A BOYAR OF THE TERRIBLE — F. Whishaw Russia—Ivan IV. Longmans, Green, Co.

    UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS — Anonymous Peru—late Sixteenth Century T. Nelson Sons

    THE FLAMINGO FEATHER — K. Munro Huguenots in Florida T. Nelson Sons

    THE MONASTERY — Scott Melrose and District. (1550). A. C. Black

    THE ABBOT — Scott Mary, Queen of Scots A. C. Black

    THE QUEEN'S MARIES — G. J. Whyte Melville Mary, Queen of Scots W. Thacker Co. and Ward, Lock, Co.

    UNKNOWN TO HISTORY — Charlotte M. Yonge Mary, Queen of Scots Macmillan Co.

    MARY HAMILTON — Lord Ernest Hamilton Mary, Queen of Scots Methuen Co.

    ONE QUEEN TRIUMPHANT — Frank Mathew Mary, Queen of Scots John Lane

    MAGDALEN HEPBURN — Mrs. Oliphant Mary, Queen of Scots (Knox) Hurst Blackett. (1854)

    KENILWORTH — Scott Elizabeth A. C. Black

    WESTWARD HO! — Charles Kingsley Elizabeth Macmillan Co.

    FOR GOD AND GOLD — Julian Corbett Elizabeth Macmillan Co.

    BY STROKE OF SWORD — A. Balfour Elizabeth Methuen Co.

    SONS OF ADVERSITY — L. Cope Cornford Elizabeth Methuen Co.

    A GENTLEMAN PLAYER — R. N. Stephens Elizabeth Methuen Co.

    SIR LUDAR — T. Baines Reed Elizabeth Sampson Low Co.

    MAELCHO — Emily Lawless Irish Rebellion Methuen Co.

    GUAVAS THE TINNER — S. Baring-Gould The Devonshire Tinneries Methuen Co.

    THE WHITE KING OF MANOA — Joseph Hatton Sir Walter Raleigh, Hutchinson Co.

    PENSHURST CASTLE — Emma Marshall Sir Philip Sydney Seeley Co.

    MASTER SKYLARK — John Bennett Shakespeare Macmillan Co.

    THE OUTLAWS OF THE MARCHES — Lord Ernest Hamilton Scotland (1587) Fisher Unwin

    THE FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE — Standish O'Grady Ireland, late Sixteenth Century Lawrence Bullen

    WITH ESSEX IN IRELAND — Emily Lawless Ireland (1599) Methuen Co.

    SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

    THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL — Scott Time of James I. A. C. Black

    *THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES — Harrison Ainsworth Time of James I. Geo. Routledge Sons

    * Ainsworth's two novels, "Guy Fawkes" and "The Star Chamber," also deal with James I., but they are distinctly inferior in literary workmanship.

    THE BLACK TOR — G. Manville Fenn Time of James I. W. R. Chambers

    IN THE DAYS OF KING JAMES — S. H. Burchell Time of James I. Gay Bird

    ROMANCE OF THE LADY ARBELL — Alastor Graeme Time of James I. F. V. White

    JUDITH SHAKESPEARE — William Black Time of James I. Sampson Low Co.

    THE LOST TREASURE OF TREVLYN — E. Everett Green Time of the Gunpowder Plot T. Nelson Sons

    *STANDISH OF STANDISH — J. G. Austin America—Period of the Pilgrim Fathers Ward, Lock, Co.

    * This is the first of a series of tales dealing with Early American history by the same author, viz.:—"Betty Alden" (sequel to above); "A Nameless Nobleman" (half-century later than "Standish of Standish"), with its sequel, "Dr. Le Baron and his Daughters" (all published by Houghton, Mifflin, Co.)

    SOLDIER RIGDALE — B. M. Dix America—Period of the Pilgrim Fathers Macmillan Co.

    LONGFEATHER THE PEACEMAKER — Kirk Monroe America—Period of the Pilgrim Fathers George Newnes

    BY ORDER OF THE COMPANY (TO HAVE AND TO HOLD) — Mary Johnston Old Virginia, 1622 Constable Co.

    MERRY-MOUNT — J. L. Motley Plymouth Colony James Monroe Co. Boston 1849

    MISTRESS BRENT — Lucy M. Thruston Maryland, 1636 Little, Brown, Co., U.S.A.

    ANTONIA — Jessie Van Zile Belden Dutch Colonists in Hudson River Districts, 1640-50 John Murray

    THE DUKE'S SERVANTS — S. H. Burchell The Duke of Buckingham (1624-8) Gay Bird

    IN HIGH PLACES — Miss Braddon Earlier years of Charles I. Hutchinson Co.

    WHITEHALL — Anonymous Earlier years of Charles I. Geo. Routledge Sons

    MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER — Defoe Civil War Period J. M. Dent Co.

    THE CAVALIERS — S. R. Keightley Civil War Period Hutchinson Co.

    WHEN CHARLES I. WAS KING — J. S. Fletcher Civil War Period Gay Bird

    HOLMEY HOUSE — G. J. Whyte Melville Civil War Period W. Thacker Co. and Ward, Lock, Co.

    THE SPLENDID SPUR — "Q" Civil War Period Cassell Co.

    WITH THE KING AT OXFORD — A. J. Church Civil War Period Seeley Co.

    MISTRESS SPITFIRE — J. S. Fletcher Civil War Period J. M. Dent Co.

    CROMWELL'S OWN — A. Paterson Civil War Period Harper Brothers

    ST. GEORGE AND ST. MICHAEL — George Macdonald Civil War Period H. S. King, 1876

    HUGH GWYETH — B. M. Dix Civil War Period Macmillan Co.

    MIRIAM CROMWELL — Dora McChesney Civil War Period W. Blackwood Sons

    THE CHILDREN OF NEW FOREST — Marryatt Civil War Period J. M. Dent Co.

    *FOR KING AND KENT — Col. Colomb Civil War Period Remington

    * This book well represents the extreme Royalist point of view.

    TO RIGHT THE WRONG — Edna Lyall Hampden Hurst Blackett

    IN SPITE OF ALL — Edna Lyall Falkland, Laud, Hurst Blackett

    JOHN INGLESANT — J. H. Shorthouse England (Charles I.) and Italy (the Molinists). Macmillan Co.

    UNDER SALISBURY SPIRE — Emma Marshall George Herbert Seeley Co.

    A HAUNT OF ANCIENT PEACE — Emma Marshall Nicholas Ferrar Seeley Co.

    THE MAIDEN AND MARRIED LIFE OF MARY POWELL — Miss Manning John Milton (1643) J C. Nimmo

    OLD BLACKFRIARS — Beatrice Marshall Van Dyck Seeley Co.

    THE THREE MUSKETEERS — Dumas (translation) France—Richelieu, J. M. Dent Co.

    UNDER THE RED ROBE — Stanley Weyman France—Richelieu, Methuen Co.

    THE MAN IN BLACK — Stanley Weyman France—Richelieu, Cassell Co.

    CINQ MARS — A. de Vigny (trans.) France—Richelieu, Geo. Routledge Sons, 1877

    RICHELIEU — G. P. R. James France—Richelieu, G. P. Putnam's Sons

    CAPTAIN FRACASSE — Theophile Gautier (translation) Strolling Players, in time of Louis XIII. Duckworth Co. and J. Macqueen

    A DAUGHTER OF FRANCE — Eliza Pollard France and Acadia T. Nelson Sons

    *THE BETROTHED LOVERS — Manzoni (translation) Italy—the Plague in Milan, 1630 Ward, Lock, Co. ("Minerva Library," 1889)

    * Also published by George Bell Sons (Bohn's Series) under the title "The Betrothed." I adopt the fuller title to prevent confusion with Scott's romance.

    RUPERT BY THE GRACE OF GOD — Dora McChesney Prince Rupert's time Macmillan Co.

    STRAY PEARLS — Charlotte M. Yonge Prince Rupert's time Macmillan Co.

    THE LION OF THE NORTH — G. A. Henty Gustavus Adolphus Blackie Son

    A BRAVE RESOLVE — J. B. de Liefde Wallenstein Hodder Stoughton

    BARON AND SQUIRE — Noeldechen (translated by Mrs. Pereira) Thirty Years War J. Nisbet Co.

    WON BY THE SWORD — G. A. Henty Thirty Years War Blackie Son

    MY LADY ROTHA — Stanley Weyman Thirty Years War A. D. Innes Co.

    RED AXE — S. R. Crockett Thirty Years War Smith, Elder, Co.

    *THE KING'S RING — Zacharias Topelius (translation) Thirty Years War Jarrold Sons

    * The first of a series covering the 17th and 18th Centuries. Under the general title of "The Surgeon's Stories," the remaining volumes were published by Messrs. Jansen Co., of Chicago (1883- 4); one of these appears in my list later on.

    DER DEUTSCHE KRIEG (Collective Title of Series) — Heinrich Laube Thirty Years War H. Haeffel, 1863

    PHILLIP ROLLO — James Grant Thirty Years War Geo. Routledge Sons

    TWENTY YEARS AFTER — Dumas (translation) France—Time of Mazarin, (1648-9) J. M. Dent Co.

    THE WAR OF WOMEN — Dumas (translation) France—Time of Mazarin, (1650) J. M. Dent Co.

    MARIE DE MANCINI — Madame Sophie Gay (translation) France—Time of Mazarin, Lawrence Bullen

    THE SILVER CROSS — S. R. Keightley France—Time of Mazarin Hutchinson Co.

    HENRY MASTERTON — G. P. R. James England (Civil War) and France (the Fronde). Warne Co.

    PRETTY MICHAL — M. Jokai (translation) Hungary, middle Seventeenth Century Jarrold Sons

    WITH FIRE AND SWORD — H. Sienkiewicz (translation) Poland and Russia, from middle of the Seventeenth Century J. M. Dent Co.

    THE DELUGE — H. Sienkiewicz (translation) Poland and Russia, from middle of the Seventeenth Century J. M. Dent Co.

    PAN MICHAEL — H. Sienkiewicz (translation) Poland and Russia, from middle of the Seventeenth Century J. M. Dent Co.

    JOHN SPLENDID — Neil Munro Period of Montrose and the Covenant Wm. Blackwood Sons

    THE LEGEND OF MONTROSE — Scott Period of Montrose and the Covenant A. C. Black

    JOURNAL OF THE LADY BEATRIX GRAHAM — Mrs. Fowler Smith Period of Montrose and the Covenant Geo. Bell Sons

    THE ANGEL OF THE COVENANT — J. Maclaren Cobban Period of Montrose and the Covenant Methuen Co.

    KATHLEEN CLARE — Dora McChesney Ireland, 1637-41 W. Blackwood Sons

    JOHN MARMADUKE — S. H. Church Ireland—Cromwellian wars G. P. Putnam's Sons

    IN THE KING'S SERVICE — F. S. Brereton Ireland—Cromwellian wars Blackie Son

    ETHNE — Mrs. Field Ireland—Cromwellian wars Wells, Gardner, Co.

    HARRY OGILVIE — James Grant Scotland. Cromwellian wars Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE WHITE KING'S DAUGHTER — Emma Marshall The Princess Elizabeth Seeley Co.

    IN COLSTON'S DAYS — Emma Marshall Bristol, 1636-1720 Seeley Co.

    WOODSTOCK — Scott Commonwealth period A. C. Black

    CAPTAIN JACOBUS — L. Cope Cornford Commonwealth period Methuen Co.

    AFTER WORCESTER — E. Everett Green Commonwealth period T. Nelson Sons

    ON BOTH SIDES OF THE SEA — Mrs. Charles Commonwealth period T. Nelson Sons

    THE MAKING OF CHRISTOPHER FERRINGHAM — B. M. Dix Commonwealth period (New England) Macmillan Co.

    *DEBORAH'S DIARY — Miss Manning Milton's Daughter (1665) J. C. Nimmo

    * Sequel to "The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell."

    ADAM HEPBURN'S VOW — Annie S. Swan Scotland—Kirk and Covenant Cassell Co.

    FRIEND OLIVIA — Amelia E. Barr George Fox, the Quaker James Clarke Co.

    THE SHADOW OF A CRIME — Hall Caine Quakers at the Restoration Chatto Windus

    A GALLANT QUAKER — Mrs. M. H. Roberton George Fox and William Penn Methuen Co.

    THE ROMANCE OF DOLLARD — Mrs. Catherwood French in Canada Fisher Unwin

    TARA — Meadows Taylor India, 1657 Kegan, Paul, Co.

    BRAMBLETYE HOUSE — Horace Smith Commonwealth—Charles II. Henry Colburn, 1826

    GOD SAVE THE KING — Ronald Macdonald Commonwealth—Charles II. John Murray

    PEVERIL OF THE PEAK — Scott Time of Charles II. A. C. Black

    LONDON PRIDE — Miss Braddon Time of Charles II. Simpkin Co.

    DANIEL HERRICK — S. H. Burchell Time of Charles II. Gay Bird

    I LIVED AS I LISTED — Arthur L. Maitland Time of Charles II. Wells, Gardner, Co.

    THE PURITAN'S WIFE — Max Pemberton Time of Charles II. Cassell Co.

    WHITEFRIARS — Anonymous Time of Charles II. Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE ROBBER — G. P. R. James Time of Charles II. Warne Co.

    SILAS VERNEY — E. Pickering Time of Charles II. Blackie Son

    CHERRY AND VIOLET — Miss Manning Time of Charles II. J. C. Nimmo

    HISTORY OF THE PLAGUE — Defoe Time of Charles II. (Plague) J. M. Dent Co.

    OLD ST. PAULS — Harrison Ainsworth Time of Charles II. (Plague) Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE DAGGER AND THE CROSS — J. Hatton Time of Charles II. (Eyam) Hutchinson Co.

    TRAITOR OR PATRIOT? — Mary C. Rowsell Time of Charles II. (Rye House Plot) Blackie Son

    SIMON DALE — Anthony Hope Time of Charles II. Methuen Co.

    NELL GWYNN, COMEDIAN — Frankfort Moore Time of Charles II. C. A. Pearson

    IN THE GOLDEN DAYS — Edna Lyall Time of Charles II. (Algernon Sidney) Hurst Blackett

    SIR RALPH ESHER — Leigh Hunt Time of Charles II. Henry Colburn, 1832

    MARY HOLLIS — H. J. Schimmel (translation) Time of Charles II. John Camden Hotten

    OLD MORTALITY — Scott Bothwell Bridge, 1679 A. C. Black

    THE MEN OF THE MOSS HAGS — S. R. Crockett Bothwell Bridge, 1679 Isbister Co.

    JOHN BURNET OF BARNS — J. Buchan Scotland and the Low Countries (1678-88) John Lane

    WINCHESTER MEADS — Emma Marshall Bishop Ken Seeley Co.

    IN THE EAST COUNTRY WITH SIR THOMAS BROWNE — Emma Marshall Author of "Religio Medici." Seeley Co.

    IN WESTMINSTER CHOIR — Emma Marshall Purcell the Composer Seeley Co.

    THE CARVED CARTOON — Austin Clare Grinling Gibbons Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

    SPINOZA — Auerbach (trans.) A romance of Spinoza the Philosopher. Sampson Low Co.

    'MIDST THE WILD CARPATHIANS — M. Jokai (trans.) Transylvania, 1666 Jarrold Sons

    THE BLACK TULIP — Dumas (trans.) William of Orange, 1672 J. M. Dent Co.

    THE VICOMTE DE BRAGELONNE — Dumas (trans.) France—Louis XIV. J. M. Dent Co.

    BELLE ROSE — Amedee Achard France—Louis XIV. A. Bourdilliat et Cie., Paris, 1859

    IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY — J. Bloundelle Burton France—Louis XIV. Methuen Co.

    *THE SCOURGE OF GOD — J. Bloundelle Burton France—Louis XIV. (Huguenots) James Clarke Co.

    * Intentionally placed with the Louis XIV. romances. It should, however, be noted that the events of the story are supposed to happen in the first years of the Eighteenth Century (the Cevennes Revolt).

    THE REFUGEES — Conan Doyle Louis XIV.—Old and New World Longmans, Green, Co.

    THE BLACK WOLF'S BREED — H. Dickson Louis XIV.—Old and New World Methuen Co.

    CAPTAIN SATAN — Louis Gallet (trans.) Adventure in early Louis XIV. period Jarrold Sons

    THE KING'S SIGNET — Eliza Pollard Madame de Maintenon, Blackie Son

    THE MARCHIONESS OF BRINVILLIERS — Albert Smith Marquise de Brinvilliers, the poisoner Bentley (new edition, 1886)

    THE GOLDEN FLEECE — Amedee Achard(trans.) Turkish Wars (Louis XIV.) J. Macqueen

    HIS COUNTERPART — Russell M. Garnier Wars of Turenne (John Churchill) Harper Brothers

    THE CLASH OF ARMS — J. Bloundelle Burton Wars of Turenne (John Churchill) Methuen Co.

    UNCROWNING A KING — E. S. Ellis America—King Philip's war Cassell Co.

    THE OLD DOMINION (PRISONERS OF HOPE) — Mary Johnston Virginia, late Seventeenth Century Constable Co.

    VIVIAN OF VIRGINIA — Hulbert Fuller Virginia, late Seventeenth Century Jarrold Sons

    THE HEART'S HIGHWAY — Mary E. Wilkins Virginia, late Seventeenth Century John Murray

    A REPUTED CHANGELING — Charlotte M. Yonge Period of Charles II.—William III. Macmillan Co.

    THE REBEL — H. B. Marriott Watson Rising at Taunton, 1684. W. Heinemann

    LORNA DOONE — R. D. Blackmore James II.—Monmouth Rebellion Sampson Low Co.

    FOR FAITH AND FREEDOM — Walter Besant James II.—Monmouth Rebellion Chatto Windus

    MICAH CLARKE — Conan Doyle James II.—Monmouth Rebellion Longmans, Green, Co.

    IN TAUNTON TOWN — E. Everett Green James II.—Monmouth Rebellion T. Nelson Sons

    THE BLUE FLAG — Max Hillary James II.—Monmouth Rebellion Ward, Lock, Co.

    URITH — S. Baring-Gould James II.—Monmouth Rebellion Methuen Co.

    DEB CLAVEL — M. E. Palgrave James II.—Monmouth Rebellion Religious Tract Society

    DUKE OF MONMOUTH — Gerald Griffin James II.—Monmouth Rebellion R. Bentley, 1836

    IN THE SERVICE OF RACHEL LADY RUSSELL — Emma Marshall Period of James II. Seeley Co.

    THE STANDARD BEARER — S. R. Crockett Period of James II. (Covenanters) Methuen Co.

    THE COURTSHIP OF MORICE BUCKLER — A. E. W. Mason Period of James II. (1685-7) Macmillan Co.

    THE SWORD OF THE KING — Ronald Macdonald William of Orange John Murray

    THE OUTLAW — Mrs. Hall Revolution period (1688) R. Bentley, 1847

    THE LIFEGUARDSMAN — H. J. Schimmel (translation) Revolution period (1688) A. C. Black

    THE SCOTTISH CAVALIER — James Grant Battle of Killiecrankie Geo. Routledge Sons

    RINGAN GILHAIZE — J. Galt Battle of Killiecrankie Greening Co.

    LOCHINVAR — S. R. Crockett Battle of Killiecrankie Methuen Co.

    MISTRESS DOROTHY MARVIN — J. C. Snaith Period of Judge Jeffreys, Ward, Lock, Co.

    BLUE PAVILIONS — "Q" William III. Cassell Co.

    KENSINGTON PALACE — Emma Marshall William III. Seeley Co.

    MY MISTRESS THE QUEEN — M. A. Paull Marriage of Mary to William (Charles II.—William III.) Blackie Son

    BY THE NORTH SEA — Emma Marshall Cromwell's Grand-daughter Jarrold Sons

    A MAN'S FOES — E. H. Strain Siege of Derry (1689) Ward, Lock, Co.

    THE CRIMSON SIGN — S. R. Keightley Siege of Derry (1689) Hutchinson Co.

    IN THE WAKE OF KING JAMES — Standish O'Grady Siege of Derry (1689) J. M. Dent Co.

    THE BOYNE WATER — J. Banim Battle of the Boyne (1690) James Duffy, Dublin

    THE MAC MAHON — Owen Blayney Battle of the Boyne (1690) Constable Co.

    REDMOND COUNT O'HANLON — W. Carleton Battle of Aughrim James Duffy, Dublin

    THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR — Scott East Lothian, 1695 A. C. Black

    ON THE RED STAIRCASE — M. Imlay Taylor Russia in the youthful days of Peter the Great Gay and Bird

    THE LION CUB — F. Whishaw Russia in the youthful days of Peter the Great Griffith, Farran, Co.

    THE ROAD TO FRONTENAC — S. Merwin French occupation of Canada John Murray

    THE TRAIL OF THE SWORD — Gilbert Parker French occupation of Canada Methuen Co.

    THE YOUNG PIONEERS — E. Everett Green La Salle, the French Explorer T. Nelson Sons

    THE BEGUM'S DAUGHTER — E. L. Bynner New York (Jacob Leisler) Houghton, Muffin. Co.

    IN FURTHEST IND — Sydney C. Grier East India Company, 1697 W. Blackwood Sons

    DARIEN — Eliot Warburton William Paterson and the Darien Scheme (1698) Colburn, 1852

    MAZEPPA — F. Whishaw Mazeppa and the Cossacks (17th-18th Century) Chatto Windus

    MONSIEUR MARTIN — W. Carey Sweden from 1699 (Charles XII.) W. Blackwood Sons

    A LADY OF QUALITY — F. Hodgson Burnett Social Life, end of Seventeenth Century Warne Co.

    HIS GRACE OF OSMONDE — F. Hodgson Burnett Social Life, end of Seventeenth Century Warne Co.

    A SET OF ROGUES — Frank Barrett Algerine Pirates, A. D. Innes Co.

    EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

    THE PIRATE — Scott Shetland and Orkney Islands, 1700 A. C. Black

    ESMOND — Thackeray Time of Anne Smith, Elder, Co.

    DEVEREUX — Lytton Time of Anne (England and Abroad) Geo. Routledge Sons

    ST. JAMES'S — Harrison Ainsworth Time of Anne Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE OLD CHELSEA BUN HOUSE — Miss Manning Time of Anne J. C. Nimmo

    ACROSS THE SALT SEAS — J. Bloundelle Burton Time of Anne (Battle of Blenheim) Methuen Co.

    THE QUEEN'S SERF — Elsa d'Esterre Keeling Time of Anne Fisher Unwin

    MOHAWKS — Miss Braddon Time of Anne J. R. Maxwell Ditto.

    IN KING'S HOUSES — Julia C. R. Dorr Time of Anne Duckworth Co.

    THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE — G. A. Henty Time of Anne (Peterborough) Blackie Son

    THE CORNET OF HORSE — G. A. Henty Time of Anne (Duke of Marlborough) Sampson Low Co.

    IN THE IRISH BRIGADE — G. A. Henty Time of Anne (Foreign Wars). Blackie Son

    TOM TUFTON'S TRAVELS and TOM TUFTON'S TOLL — E. Everett Green Time of Anne T. Nelson Sons

    ESTHER VANHOMRIGH — Margaret L. Woods Dean Swift John Murray

    THE BLACK DWARF — Scott The Lowlands of Scotland, 1706 (Jacobites) A. C. Black

    AN IMPERIAL LOVER — M. Imlay Taylor Russia—Peter the Great Gay Bird

    BORIS THE BEAR-HUNTER and A LOST ARMY — F. Whishaw Russia (from late Seventeenth Century) T. Nelson Sons

    CAPTAIN SINGLETON — Defoe Time of George I. J. M. Dent Co.

    FOR THE KING — C. Gibbon Time of George I. Chatto Windus

    THE HERITAGE OF LANGDALE — Mrs. Alexander Time of George I. Hutchinson Co.

    PARSON KELLY — A. E. W. Mason and A. Lang Time of George I. Longmans, Green, Co.

    DUANCE PENDRAY — G. Norway Time of George I. (Cornish Jacobites) Jarrold Sons

    MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE — Booth Tarkington Bath—early Eighteenth Century John Murray

    THE RAIDERS and THE DARK O' THE MOON — S. R. Crockett Galloway—early Eighteenth Century Fisher Unwin and Macmillan Co.

    ROB ROY — Scott The Jacobites A. C. Black

    DOROTHY FORSTER — Walter Besant The Jacobites Chatto Windus

    A DAUGHTER OF STRIFE — J. H. Findlater The Jacobites Methuen Co.

    A LOYAL LITTLE MAID — S. Tytler The Jacobites Blackie Son

    TO ARMS! — A. Balfour The Jacobites Methuen Co.

    *CLEMENTINA — A. E. W. Mason The Old Pretender and Princess Clementina Sobieski Methuen Co.

    * Decidedly superior to the same Author's "Lawrence Clavering" (also Jacobite period).

    A JACOBITE EXILE — G. A. Henty Charles XII. of Sweden Blackie Son

    TIMES OF CHARLES XII. — Z. Topelius (trans.) Charles XII. of Sweden Jansen Co., Chicago

    LE CHEVALIER D'HARMENTHAL — Dumas (translation) France—the Regency (1718) J. M. Dent Co.

    THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER — Dumas (translation) France—the Regency (1719) J. M. Dent Co.

    THE YEMASSEE — W. G. Simms South Carolina, 1715 W. J. Widdleton, New York, 1866 (Revised Ed.)

    FREE TO SERVE — E. Rayner Colonial New York G. P. Putnam's Sons

    AUDREY — Mary Johnston Virginia, in George I-II. Period Constable Co.

    HALIL THE PEDLAR — M. Jokai (trans.) Stambul, 1730 Jarrold Sons

    THE MISER'S DAUGHTER — Harrison Ainsworth Time of George II. Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE WORLD WENT VERY WELL THEN — Walter Besant Time of George II. Chatto Windus

    HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN — Scott Time of George II. (Porteous Riots) A. C. Black

    WILLOWDENE WILL — Halliwell Sutcliffe Time of George II. C. A. Pearson

    THE GIPSY — G. P. R. James Time of George II. Warne Co.

    NED LEGER — G. Manville Fenn Time of George II. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

    RODERICK RANDOM — Smollett Time of George II. Constable Co.

    TREASURE TROVE — S. Lover Time of George II. (Fontenoy) Constable Co.

    WHERE HONOUR LEADS — Marian Francis Time of George II. (Fontenoy) Hutchinson Co.

    THE HOUSE DIVIDED — H. B. Marriott Watson Time of George II. Harper Brothers

    LADY GRIZEL — Lewis Wingfield Time of George II. Bentley, 1877

    FOR THE WHITE ROSE OF ARNO — Owen Rhoscomyl Wales, in 1745 Longmans, Green, Co.

    WAVERLEY — Scott The Jacobites A. C. Black

    MISTRESS NANCY MOLESWORTH — Joseph Hocking The Jacobites J. Bowden

    THE FORTUNES OF CLAUDE — Edgar Pickering The Jacobites Warne Co.

    A LOST LADY OF OLD YEARS — J. Buchan The Jacobites John Lane

    DENOUNCED — J. Bloundelle Burton The Jacobites Methuen Co.

    RICROFT OF WITHENS — Halliwell Sutcliffe The Jacobites Fisher Unwin

    THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE — R. L. Stevenson The Jacobites Cassell Co.

    AN EXILED SCOT — H. A. Bryden The Jacobites (The Cape) Chatto Windus

    SIR SERGEANT — W. L. Watson The Jacobites W. Blackwood Sons

    KIDNAPPED — R. L. Stevenson Scotland, 1751 Cassell Co.

    CATRIONA — R. L. Stevenson Scotland, 1751 Cassell Co.

    THE SHOES OF FORTUNE — Neil Munro Jacobites, 1755 Isbister Co.

    THE BIRTHRIGHT — Joseph Hocking Time of John Wesley (Cornwall) J. Bowden

    HUMPHREY CLINKER — Smollett Manners, mid. Eighteenth Century Constable Co.

    THE CHAPLAIN OF THE FLEET — W. Besant and J. Rice Manners, mid. Eighteenth Century Chatto Windus

    MOONFLEET — J. Meade Falkner Smugglers, 1757 E. Arnold

    THE MASTER OF THE MUSICIANS — Emma Marshall Handel, 1742-1759 Seeley Co.

    PEG WOFFINGTON — Charles Reade The Stage, middle of Eighteenth Century Chatto Windus

    THE JESSAMY BRIDE — F. Frankfort Moore Goldsmith, Garrick, Hutchinson Co.

    MEMOIRS OF BARRY LYNDON — Thackeray World of fashion, from middle to end of Eighteenth Century Smith, Elder, Co.

    THE BATH COMEDY — Agnes Egerton Castle Bath, middle of Eighteenth Century Macmillan Co.

    THE DUTCHMAN'S FIRESIDE — J. K. Paulding New York, middle of Eighteenth Century Scribners

    IN OLD NEW YORK — Wilson Barrett and E. Barron New York, middle of Eighteenth Century J. Macqueen

    AGNES SURRIAGE — Edwin L. Bynner America (Boston), middle of Eighteenth Century Sampson Low Co.

    FAIRFAX — J. E. Cooke Valley of the Shenandoah, 1748-81 Sampson Low Co.

    WITH CLIVE IN INDIA — G. A. Henty India, middle Eighteenth Century Blackie Son

    RALPH DANIELL — Meadows Taylor India, middle Eighteenth Century Kegan, Paul, Co.

    LIKE ANOTHER HELEN — Sydney C. Grier India, middle Eighteenth Century W. Blackwood Sons

    IVAN DE BIRON — Sir Arthur Helps Russia, middle Eighteenth Century Chatto Windus

    THE KING'S "BLUE BOYS" — Sheila E. Braine Frederick William I. of Prussia and his Giant Grenadiers Jarrold Sons

    THE CITIZEN OF PRAGUE — C. L. A. Paalzow (translation) Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria H. Colburn, 1846

    CONSUELO and THE COUNTESS OF RUDOLSTADT — George Sand (trans.) Time of Frederick the Great Walter Scott

    *FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS FAMILY — Louise Muhlbach (translation) Time of Frederick the Great D. Appleton Co.

    * One of L. Muhlbach's several romances dealing with this period.

    GAVIN HAMILTON — M. E. Seawell The Seven Years War Harper Brothers

    WITH FREDERICK THE GREAT — G. A. Henty The Seven Years War Blackie Son

    A FALLEN STAR — C. Lowe The Seven Years War Downey Co.

    AMYOT BROUGH — E. Vincent Briton England and Canada, middle of Eighteenth Century Seeley Co.

    THE FORGE IN THE FOREST — C. D. G. Roberts Canada, middle Eighteenth Century Kegan, Paul, Co.

    A SISTER TO EVANGELINE — C. D. G. Roberts Canada, middle Eighteenth Century John Lane

    AT WAR WITH PONTIAC — Kirk Munroe Canada, middle Eighteenth Century Blackie Son

    THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY — Gilbert Parker The Taking of Quebec Methuen Co.

    THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS — Fennimore Cooper Montcalm, 1757 Macmillan Co.

    THE STORY OF OLD FORT LOUDON — C. E. Craddock North America, 1758. (French War) Macmillan Co.

    FORTUNE'S MY FOE — J. Bloundelle Burton Cartagena, 1758 Methuen Co.

    THE VIRGINIANS — Thackeray America and England, George II.-III. Smith, Elder, Co.

    THE GOLDEN DOG — William Kirby Quebec, in the days of Louis XV. Jarrold Sons

    OLYMPE DE CLEVES — Dumas (translation) France, Louis XV. J. M. Dent Co.

    THE HOUSE OF DE MAILLY — Margaret H. Potter France, Louis XV. Harper Brothers

    THE LITTLE HUGUENOT — Max Pemberton France, Louis XV. Cassell Co.

    THE LAST RECRUIT OF CLARE'S — S. R. Keightley Marquise de Pompadour, (Irish Brigade stories) Hutchinson Co.

    THE FAVOR OF PRINCES — Mark L. Luthur Adventure in time of Louis XV. Macmillan Co.

    MEMOIRS OF A PHYSICIAN — Dumas (translation) Louis XV.-XVI. (1770-74) J. M. Dent Co.

    THE QUEEN'S NECKLACE — Dumas (translation) Court of Louis XVI. (1784-5) J. M. Dent Co.

    THE COUNTESS EVE — J. H. Shorthouse Burgundy, 1785 Macmillan Co.

    IN EXITU ISRAEL — S. Baring-Gould Church and State in France, 1788-9 Macmillan Co., 1870

    THE KING WITH TWO FACES — M. E. Coleridge Gustavus III. of Sweden E. Arnold

    MANY WAYS OF LOVE — F. Whishaw Russia, time of Catharine II. J. M. Dent Co.

    A FORBIDDEN NAME — F. Whishaw Russia, time of Catharine II. Chatto Windus

    THE TURKISH AUTOMATON — Sheila E. Braine Russia, time of Catharine II. Blackie Son

    THE PRIDE OF JENNICO — Agnes Egerton Castle Moravia, 1771 Macmillan Co.

    REDGAUNTLET — Scott Time of George III. A. C. Black

    GUY MANNERING — Scott Time of George III. A. C. Black

    KATERFELTO — G. J. Whyte-Melville Time of George III. (Exmoor). W. Thacker Co. and Ward, Lock, Co.

    THE ORANGE GIRL — Walter Besant Time of George III. Chatto Windus

    *THE ROCK OF THE LION — M. E. Seawell Time of George III. Harper Brothers

    * Deals with the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783.

    BARNABY RUDGE — Dickens Time of George III. (Gordon Riots) Chapman Hall

    THE MAID OF SKER — R. D. Blackmore Time of George III. Sampson Low Co.

    MISS ANGEL — Miss Thackeray Art (Reynolds Angelica Kauffmann) Smith, Elder, Co.

    THE FATAL GIFT — F. Frankfort Moore The Sisters Gunning Hutchinson Co.

    A NEST OF LINNETS — F. Frankfort Moore R. B. Sheridan, Johnson, Hutchinson Co.

    THE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER — Scott Fifeshire, Isle of Wight, and India (1780) A. C. Black

    THE CASTLE INN — Stanley Weyman English Manners, late Eighteenth Century Smith, Elder, Co.

    THE TONE KING — Heribert Rau (trans.) Mozart Jarrold Sons

    THE VIRGINIA COMEDIANS — J. E. Cooke Virginia, 1763-5 D. Appleton Co., 1854

    ALICE OF OLD VINCENNES — Maurice Thompson Fort Vincennes (Clark's Conquest) Cassell Co.

    THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS — Daniel P. Thompson American Revolution B. B. Mussey Co., Boston. Revised edition, 1848

    *LIONEL LINCOLN — Fennimore Cooper American Revolution Geo. Routledge Sons

    * "Lionel Lincoln" treats of Boston in the time of Bunker Hill (1775); "The Spy" of Hudson River district 1782); and "The Pilot" of Paul Jones (1779).

    THE SPY — Fennimore Cooper American Revolution Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE PILOT — Fennimore Cooper American Revolution Geo. Routledge Sons

    RICHARD CARVEL — Winston Churchill American Revolution Macmillan Co.

    HUGH WYNNE — S. Weir Mitchell American Revolution (Washington) Macmillan Co.

    A GREAT TREASON — Mary A. M. Hoppus American Revolution (Benedict Arnold) Macmillan Co.

    A SOLDIER OF VIRGINIA — Burton Eghert Stevenson American Revolution Duckworth Co.

    PHILIP WINWOOD — R. N. Stephens American Revolution Chatto Windus

    LOVE LIKE A GIPSY — Bernard Capes American Revolution Constable Co.

    JANICE MEREDITH — P. L. Ford American Revolution Constable Co.

    THE TORY LOVER — Sarah Orne Jewett American Revolution (Paul Jones) Smith, Elder, Co.

    CARDIGAN — R. W. Chambers American Revolution Constable Co.

    *THE FORAYERS and EUTAW — W. G. Simms American Revolution W. J. Widdleton, New York

    * The two last of a series covering the American War period.

    HORSE-SHOE ROBINSON — J. P. Kennedy Virginia, 1780 R. Bentley, 1835

    THE DUKE OF STOCKBRIDGE — E. Bellamy Massachusetts (Shays' Rebellion) Gay Bird

    ANGE PITOU — Dumas (translation) French Revolution period J. M. Dent Co.

    LA COMTESSE DE CHARNY — Dumas (translation) French Revolution period (1789-94) J. M. Dent Co.

    CHEVALIER DE MAISON ROUGE — Dumas (translation) French Revolution period (1793) J. M. Dent Co.

    *THE STORY OF A PEASANT — Erckmann-Chatrian (translation) French Revolution period (1789-1815) Ward, Lock, Co.

    * Collective title of the four tales—"The States-General" (1789), "The Country in Danger" (1792), "Year One of the Republic" (1793), and "Citizen Bonaparte" (1794-1815). Erckmann-Chatrian's "Madame Therese" (translation) is another good story of this period (1792).

    THE REDS OF THE MIDI — Felix Gras (translation) French Revolution period W. Heinemann

    THE TERROR — Felix Gras (translation) French Revolution period W. Heinemann

    THE WHITE TERROR — Felix Gras (translation) French Revolution period W. Heinemann

    A TALE OF TWO CITIES — Dickens French Revolution period Chapman Hall

    L'AN '93 — Victor Hugo (trans.) French Revolution period J. M. Dent Co.

    MY LADY MARCIA — Eliza F. Pollard French Revolution period T. Nelson Sons

    THE ATELIER DU LYS — Miss Roberts French Revolution period Longmans, Green, Co.

    ON THE EDGE OF THE STORM — Miss Roberts French Revolution period Warne Co.

    CITOYENNE JACQUELINE — S. Tytler French Revolution period Chatto Windus

    LA VENDEE — Anthony Trollope French Revolution period Colburn, 1850

    THE RED COCKADE — Stanley Weyman French Revolution period Longmans, Green, Co.

    MADEMOISELLE MATHILDE — Henry Kingsley French Revolution period Ward, Lock, Co.

    THE ADVENTURES OF FRANCOIS FOUNDER — S. Weir Mitchell French Revolution period Macmillan Co.

    *A STORM-RENT SKY — M. Betham Edwards French Revolution period Hurst Blackett

    * This striking tale deals with Danton's career. In "A Romance of Dijon" (Black) and "The Dream-Charlotte" (Black) Miss Betham Edwards has depicted earlier phases of the Revolution; the last- named novel takes us away from the Capital, to show us how the forces of the time affected the simple folk of Normandy.

    THE ADVENTURES OF THE COMTE DE LA MUETTE — Bernard Capes French Revolution period W. Blackwood Sons

    OUR LADY OF DARKNESS — Bernard Capes French Revolution period W. Blackwood Sons

    THE RED SHIRTS — Paul Gaulot. (trans.) French Revolution period Chatto Windus

    A GIRL OF THE MULTITUDE — Anonymous French Revolution period Fisher Unwin

    THE LITTLE SAINT OF GOD — Lady F. Cunningham French Revolution period Hurst Blackett

    ST. KATHERINE'S BY THE TOWER — Walter Besant French Revolution period (England, 1793) Chatto Windus

    AT THE SIGN OF THE GUILLOTINE — Harold Spender Robespierre, 1794 Fisher Unwin

    THE PARSON'S DAUGHTER — Emma Marshall George Romney, the Painter Seeley Co.

    THE MAID OF MAIDEN LANE — Amelia E. Barr New York, 1791 Fisher Unwin

    ARTHUR MERVYN — Charles Brocden Brown Philadelphia, 1793 (yellow fever year) H. Maxwell, Phil., 1799

    ROPES OF SAND — R. E. Francillon North Devon, 1793 Chatto Windus

    A BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS — Julian Corbett Sussex Smugglers and French Conspirators Methuen Co.

    THE WHITES AND THE BLUES — Dumas (translation) Rise of Napoleon (1793-9) J. M. Dent Co.

    THE CHOIR INVISIBLE — James Lane Allen Kentucky, 1795 Macmillan Co.

    THE MILLS OF GOD — Elinor Macartney Lane Virginia and England D. Appleton Co.

    THE KING'S OWN — Marryatt Mutiny at the Nore, 1797 J. M. Dent Co.

    ADMIRAL — Douglas Sladen Nelson, 1798-9 Hutchinson Co.

    THE BATTLE OF THE STRONG — Gilbert Parker Jersey, end of Eighteenth Century Methuen Co.

    IN PRESS-GANG DAYS — E. Pickering Battle of the Nile, Warne Co.

    THE ANTIQUARY — Scott Scotch Manners, last decade of Eighteenth Century A. C. Black

    THE KING'S DEPUTY — H. A. Hinkson Dublin in time of Grattan Lawrence Bullen

    RORY O'MORE — S. Lover Ireland (the '98 Rebellion) Constable Co.

    KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN — Randal McDonnell Ireland (the '98 Rebellion) Fisher Unwin

    TWO CHIEFS OF DUNBOY — J. A. Froude Ireland (the '98 Rebellion) Longmans, Green, Co.

    THE REBELS — M. McD. Bodkin Ireland (the '98 Rebellion) Ward, Lock, Co.

    UP FOR THE GREEN — H. A. Hinkson Ireland (the '98 Rebellion) Lawrence Bullen

    THE CROPPY — John and Michael Banim Ireland (the '98 Rebellion) Henry Colburn, 1828

    THE INIMITABLE MRS. MASSINGHAM — Herbert Compton Gretna Green Botany Bay, 1799 Chatto Windus

    THE COMPANIONS OF JEHU — Dumas (translation) Napoleon in Egypt (1799-1800) J. M. Dent Co.

    THE MINISTER'S WOOING — Mrs. Beecher Stowe American Manners (late Eighteenth to early Nineteenth Century.) Sampson Low Co.

    LITTLE JARVIS — M. E. Seawell American quarrel with France (Constellation cruises, 1798-1800.) D. Appleton Co.

    THE HUNGARIAN BROTHERS — A. M. Porter Vienna in the last decade of the Century Warne Co.

    NINETEENTH CENTURY (EARLY AND MID)

    THE CHOUANS — Balzac (translation) Brittany in 1800 J. M. Dent Co.

    RODNEY STONE — Conan Doyle English Social Life, beginning of Nineteenth Century Smith, Elder, Co.

    THE LORDS OF STROGUE — Lewis Wingfield Ireland at the Union Bentley, 1879

    SWALLOW BARN — J. P. Kennedy Virginian Life, beginning of Nineteenth Century G. P. Putnam, 1851

    BLENNERHASSETT — C. F. Pidgin America—time of Aaron Burr C. M. Clark Publishing Co., Boston

    A SON OF THE REVOLUTION — Elbridge S. Brooks America—time of Aaron Burr Wilde Co., Boston

    THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY — E. E. Hale America—time of Aaron Burr (1805-7) Roberts, Boston

    AT THE POINT OF THE BAYONET — G. A. Henty Battle of Assaye, Blackie Son

    THE HOUR AND THE MAN — Harriet Martineau Toussaint L'Ouverture Cassell ("Red Library," 1886)

    THE ADVENTURES OF A GOLDSMITH — M. H. Bourchier France—Royalist Conspiracy under the Consulate Elkin Mathews

    PICCIOLA — X. B. Saintine (trans.) Earlier Napoleonic period Sampson Low Co.

    A BOY OF THE FIRST EMPIRE — Elbridge S. Brooks Napoleon, Fouche, (1806-15) S. W. Partridge Co.

    WHEN GEORGE III. WAS KING — A. Sagon Time of Nelson Sands Co.

    SPRINGHAVEN — R. D. Blackmore Time of Nelson (Trafalgar) Sampson Low Co.

    *TRAFALGAR — B. Perez Galdos (trans.) Time of Nelson (Trafalgar) Trubner Co., 1884

    * One of the series (20 vols.), "Episodios Nacionales," dealing with the Spanish War of Independence.

    AFLOAT WITH NELSON — Charles H. Eden Time of Nelson (Trafalgar) J. Macqueen

    RUHE IST DIE ERSTE BURGERFLICHT and ISEGRIMM — Wilibald Alexis Prussia—Invasion of Napoleon, Barthol, Berlin (1852 and 1854)

    RAFAEL — Ernest Daudet (trans.) Spain—Charles IV. and Napoleon Sampson Low Co.

    TOM BURKE Of "OURS" — Charles Lever French Wars (Consulate—Empire) Downey Co. and Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE AIDE-DE-CAMP — James Grant Battle of Maida, 1806 Geo. Routledge Sons

    CHARLES O'MALLEY — Charles Lever Peninsular War Downey Co. and Geo. Routledge Sons

    ALICE LORRAINE — R. D. Blackmore Peninsular War Sampson Low Co.

    THE ROMANCE OF WAR — James Grant Peninsular War Geo. Routledge Sons

    WITH MOORE AT CORUNNA and UNDER WELLINGTON'S COMMAND — G. A. Henty Peninsular War Blackie Son

    THE SUBALTERN — G. R. Gleig Peninsular War W. Blackwood Sons

    THE BIVOUAC — W. H. Maxwell Peninsular War Geo. Routledge Sons

    SONS OF THE SWORD — Margaret L. Woods Peninsular War W. Heinemann

    WITH THE RED EAGLE — W. Westall Austria, early Nineteenth Century Chatto Windus

    A RED BRIDAL — W. Westall Austria, early Nineteenth Century (Hofer.) Chatto Windus

    WAR AND PEACE — Tolstoy (translation) Napoleon's Russian Campaign Walter Scott

    KENNETH — Charlotte M. Yonge Napoleon's Russian Campaign Macmillan Co.

    THROUGH RUSSIAN SNOWS — G. A. Henty Napoleon's Russian Campaign Blackie Son

    SHIRLEY — Charlotte Bronte The "Luddite" Riots Smith, Elder, Co.

    FOREST FOLK — James Prior The "Luddite" Riots W. Heinemann

    AN OCEAN FREE LANCE — Clark Russell Privateering in 1812 Sampson Low Co.

    ST. RONAN'S WELL — Scott Near Firth of Forth, 1812 A. C. Black

    D'RI AND I. — Irving Bacheller America—War of 1812 Grant Richards

    THE BIG BROTHER — G. C. Eggleston America—War of 1812. Indian War, 1813 G. P. Putnam's Sons

    IN THE YEAR '13 — Fritz Renter (trans.) French occupation of Mecklenburg Sampson Low Co. (Tauchnitz edition, 1867)

    UNCLE BERNAC — Conan Doyle Napoleon and his time Smith, Elder, Co.

    EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD — Conan Doyle Napoleon and his time George Newnes

    THE SHADOW OF THE SWORD — R. Buchanan Napoleon and his time (Elba.) Chatto Windus

    GRANTLEY FENTON — M. M. Blake Napoleon and his time (Elba.) Jarrold Sons

    VENGEANCE IS MINE — A. Balfour Napoleon and his time (Elba.) Methuen Co.

    FACE TO FACE WITH NAPOLEON and IN THE YEAR OF WATERLOO — O. V. Caine Napoleon and his time J. Nisbet Co.

    ONE OF THE 28th. — G. A. Henty Napoleon and his time (Waterloo.) Blackie Son

    THE BLOCKADE — Erckmann-Chatrian (translation) Napoleon and his time Ward, Lock, Co.

    *THE CONSCRIPT and WATERLOO — Erckmann-Chatrian (translation) Napoleon and his time Ward, Lock, Co.

    * These two books depict the period September, 1812-July, 1815.

    STORIES OF WATERLOO — W. H. Maxwell Napoleon and his time Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE GREAT SHADOW — Conan Doyle Napoleon and his time (Waterloo.) J. W. Arrowsmith

    ST. IVES — R. L. Stevenson French prisoner in England, 1813—14 W. Heinemann

    CHEAP JACK ZITA — S. Baring-Gould The Fen Riots Methuen Co.

    LES MISERABLES — Victor Hugo (trans.) France, 1815 J. M. Dent Co.

    LAZARRE — Mrs. Catherwood Son of Louis XVI. (France and America, 1795-1815) Grant Richards

    THE NAMELESS CASTLE — M. Jokai (trans.) Daughter of Louis XVI. (Hungary in the Napoleonic period) Jarrold Sons

    LORDS OF THE NORTH — Agnes C. Laut Canada—Hudson Bay Company versus North-West Company W. Heinemann

    THE REVOLUTION IN TANNER'S LANE — Mark Rutherford Nonconformity, early Nineteenth Century Fisher Unwin

    THE MANCHESTER MAN — Mrs. G. L. Banks Manchester, early Nineteenth Century (Peterloo) George Newnes

    VANITY FAIR — Thackeray "High Life," George III.-IV. Smith, Elder, Co.

    MIS'ESS JOY — John Le Breton Last Years of the Regency J. Macqueen

    YEOMAN FLEETWOOD — M. E. Francis (Mrs. Blundell) Last Years of the Regency Longmans, Green, Co.

    A LADY OF THE REGENCY — Mrs. Stepney Rawson Time of George IV. Hutchinson Co.

    TAKEN FROM THE ENEMY — Henry Newbolt Time of George IV. (Plot to rescue Napoleon, 1821.) Chatto Windus

    ROYAL GEORGIE — S. Baring-Gould Time of George IV. Methuen Co.

    THE VINTAGE and CAPSINA — E. F. Benson Greek War of Independence, 1821 Methuen Co.

    BLACK PROPHET — W. Carleton Ireland, in 1822 Simms Co., 1847

    THE WHITEBOY — Mrs. S. C. Hall Ireland, in 1822 Geo. Routledge Sons

    HUNGARIAN NABOB — M. Jokai (translation) Hungary, 1822 Jarrold Sons

    THE GREEN BOOK — M. Jokai (translation) Russia, 1825 Jarrold Sons

    THADDEUS OF WARSAW — Jane Porter Poland, about 1830 Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE FIERY DAWN — M. E. Coleridge Duchesse de Berri (1831-2) E. Arnold

    THE SHE WOLVES OF MACHECOUL — Dumas (translation) Duchesse de Berri (1795-1843) J. M. Dent Co.

    THE FIREBRAND — S. R. Crockett Spain—Queen Cristina and the Carlists Macmillan Co.

    IN KEDAR'S TENTS — H. S. Merriman The Carlists Smith, Elder, Co.

    FOR THE RIGHT — Karl Emil Franzos (translation) Carpathian district, 1835 James Clarke Co.

    MIDDLEMARCH — George Eliot Time of William IV. W. Blackwood Sons

    FELIX HOLT — George Eliot Time of William IV. W. Blackwood Sons

    UNDER THE MENDIPS — Emma Marshall Time of William IV. (Bristol Riots.) Seeley Co.

    TREWERN — R. M. Thomas Time of William IV. (Wales.) Fisher Unwin

    SWALLOW — H. Rider Haggard South Africa—the Great Trek, 1836 Longmans, Green, Co.

    JOHN CHARITY — H. A. Vachell First years of Queen Victoria's reign. (Hants and California). John Murray

    ALTON LOCKE — Charles Kingsley Early Victorian period (Chartists) Macmillan Co.

    SYBIL — Disraeli Early Victorian period (Chartists) Longmans, Green, Co.

    TO HERAT AND CABUL — G. A. Henty First Afghan War Blackie Son

    CASTLE RICHMOND — Anthony Trollope Irish Famine Chapman Hall, 1860

    CASTLE DALY — Miss Keary Irish Famine Macmillan Co.

    MONONIA — Justin McCarthy Ireland, 1848 Chatto Windus

    ISHMAEL — Miss Braddon France (Louis Philippe-Napoleon III.) J. R. Maxwell

    JOURNEYMAN LOVE — Mrs. Stepney Rawson France. (Period of tile '48 Revolution). Hutchinson Co.

    MADEMOISELLE MORI — Miss Roberts Italian Revolution, 1848 Longmans, Green, Co

    *DR. ANTONIO — G. D. Ruffini Italian Revolution, 1848 Thos. Constable Co., Edinburgh, 1855

    * A remarkable example of a foreigner's mastery of our language. Ruffini, the illustrious Italian patriot, wrote this novel after a sojourn of some years in England.

    VITTORIA — George Meredith Italian Revolution, 1848 Constable Co.

    FOR FREEDOM — Tighe Hopkins War of Italian Liberation, 1859 Chatto Windus

    OUT WITH GARIBALDI — G. A. Henty War of Italian Liberation, 1859 Blackie Son

    DEBIT AND CREDIT — Freytag (translation) Silesia, 1848 Bentley, 1857

    THE BARON'S SONS — M. Jokai (translation) Hungarian Revolution, 1848. J. Macqueen

    MANASSEH — M. Jokai (translation) Italy and Transylvania, 1848-59 J. Macqueen

    RAVENSHOE — Henry Kingsley Period of Crimean War Ward, Lock, Co.

    *SEVASTOPOL — Tolstoy (translatton) Period of Crimean War Grant Richards

    * This powerful sketch can hardly be described as "romance," but I felt that my Crimean section would be incomplete without it.

    THE INTERPRETER — G. J. Whyte Melville Period of Crimean War W. Thacker Co. and Ward, Lock, Co.

    BY CELIA'S ARBOUR — W. Besant and J. Rice Period of Crimean War Chatto Windus

    A GALLANT GRENADIER — Captain Brereton Period of Crimean War Blackie Son

    SEETA — Meadows Taylor Indian Mutiny Kegan, Paul, Co.

    THE DILEMMA — Sir George Chesny Indian Mutiny W. Blackwood Sons

    ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS — Mrs. F. A. Steel Indian Mutiny (Siege of Delhi) W. Heinemann

    FLOTSAM — H. Seton Merriman Indian Mutiny Longmans, Green, Co.

    FOR THE OLD FLAG — Clive Robert Fenn Indian Mutiny Sampson Low Co.

    JENETHA'S VENTURE — Colonel Harcourt Indian Mutiny Cassell Co.

    EBEN HOLDEN — Irving bacheller New York Journalism (Horace Greeley) Fisher Unwin

    THE CRISIS — Winston Churchill American Civil War period Macmillan Co.

    THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE — Stephen Crane American Civil War period W. Heinemann

    WITH LEE IN VIRGINIA — G. A. Henty American Civil War period Blackie Son

    THE DESERTER, and A DAY IN THE WILDERNESS (In "The Deserter and other stories") — Harold Frederic American Civil War Period Lothrop Publishing Co.

    THE COPPERHEAD AND OTHER TALES — Harold Frederic American Civil War Period W. Heinemann

    WHO GOES THERE? and FRIEND WITH THE COUNTERSIGN — B. K. Benson American Civil War Period Macmillan Co.

    THE CAVALIER — George W. Cable American Civil War Period John Murray

    HENRY BOURLAND — Albert Elmer Hancock American Civil War Period Macmillan Co.

    *RED ROCK — T. Nelson Page American Civil War Period W. Heinemann

    * Depicts the Reconstruction period in the Southern States just after the War.

    AN EMPEROR'S DOOM — Herbert Hayens Mexican War of Independence T. Nelson Sons

    LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS — Baroness von Suttner (translation) Foreign Wars, 1864-70 Longmans, Green, Co.

    FOR SCEPTRE AND CROWN — G. Samarow (trans.) Prussia v. Austria, 1866 H. S. King Co., 1875

    THE MEMBER FOR PARIS — E. C. Grenville Murray France—Napoleon III. Smith, Elder, Co., 1871

    HISTOIRE DU PLEBISCITE — Erckmann-Chatrian Franco-German War Period J. Hetzel et Cie.

    LORRAINE — Robert W. Chambers Franco-German War Period G. P. Putnam's Sons

    VALENTIN — Henry Kingsley Ward, Lock, Co. Ditto.

    THE ISLE OF UNREST — H. S. Merriman Franco-German War Period (Corsica) Smith, Elder, Co.

    THE GARDEN OF SWORDS — Max Pemberton Franco-German War Period (Strasburg). Cassell Co.

    ASHES OF EMPIRE — Robert W. Chambers Franco-German War Period Macmillan Co.

    THE DOWNFALL — E. Zola (translation) Franco-German War Period (Sedan) Chatto Windus

    *UNE EPOQUE — Paul et Victor Margueritte Franco-German War Period Plon-Nourrit et Cie., Paris

    * Collective title of the 4 novels—"Le Desastre" (Metz, 1870), "Les Troncons du Glaive" (La Defense nationale. 1870-71), "Les Braves Gens" (Episodes, 1870-71), and "La Commune" (Paris, 1875). The last-named has still (January, 1902) to appear. Messrs. Chatto Windus have published an English translation of "Le Desastre."

    THE PARISIANS — Lytton Paris Commune Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE RED REPUBLIC — Robert W. Chambers Paris Commune G. P. Putnam's Sons

    THE VELVET GLOVE — H. S. Merriman Spain, 1870—The Carlists Smith, Elder, Co.

    * SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF NOTABLE NOVELS,

    Which, while not strictly "Historical," in some way represent bygone periods.

    * Nothing like exhaustiveness is claimed for this "Supplementary List;" the method of study therein indicated might be indefinitely extended, but the few works given form an almost necessary starting-point. A less restricted list would, of course, include the Semi-Historic examples of such Foreign authors as Madame de Stael, Balzac, Spielhagen, The purport of this book being primarily in the direction of Historical Romance proper, I have confined my attention here to a few works on the borderland of my Introductory definition.

    THE FOREST LOVERS — Maurice Hewlett Mediaeval Life Macmillan Co.

    THE SCARLET LETTER — Nathaniel Hawthorne Massachusetts, end of Seventeenth Century Walter Scott and others

    CASTLE RACKRENT — Maria Edgeworth Irish character, early Eighteenth Century Macmillan Co.

    TREASURE ISLAND — R. L. Stevenson Adventure, middle Eighteenth Century Cassell Co.

    TOM JONES — Fielding English Life and Manners, middle Eighteenth Century J. M. Dent Co.

    CLARISSA HARLOWE — Richardson English Life and Manners, middle Eighteenth Century Chapman Hall

    THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD — Goldsmith English Rural Life, Eighteenth Century Macmillan Co.

    ANNALS OF THE PARISH — John Galt Scotch Village Life, 1760-1810 W. Blackwood Sons

    EVELINA — Frances Burney Fashionable manners, end Eighteenth Century J. M. Dent Co.

    PRIDE AND PREJUDICE — Jane Austen Everyday Society, beginning of Nineteenth Century Macmillan Co.

    ADAM BEDE — George Eliot English Rural Life, beginning of Nineteenth Century W. Blackwood Sons

    DESTINY — Susan E. Ferrier Scotch character, beginning of Nineteenth Century J. M. Dent Co.

    TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY — William Carleton Irish Peasant-life, beginning of Nineteenth Century J. M. Dent Co.

    O'DONNEL — Lady Morgan Irish character, beginning of Nineteenth Century Colburn, 1814

    THE GRANDISSIMES — G. W. Cable America, early Nineteenth Century (Creole life) Hodder Stoughton

    PENDENNIS and THE NEWCOMES — Thackeray Late Georgian—Early Victorian manners Smith Elder Co.

    CRANFORD — Mrs. Gaskell English Provincial Life in the second quarter of the Nineteenth Century Macmillan Co.

    PERLYCROSS — R. D. Blackmore English Provincial Life in the second quarter of the Nineteenth Century Sampson Low Co.

    THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE — Nathaniel Hawthorne Margaret Fuller and the "Brook Farm" group, under fictitious names. Walter Scott

    THE TRAGIC COMEDIANS — George Meredith Ferdinand Lassalle, under fictitious name Constable Co.

    UNCLE TOM'S CABIN — Mrs. H. Beecher-Stowe Slavery in America Routledge, Cassell, and others

    A KENTUCKY CARDINAL AND AFTERMATH — James Lane Allen American Manners, 1850 Macmillan Co.

    BARCHESTER TOWERS — Anthony Trollope Life in an English Cathedral City, middle of Nineteenth Century Chapman Hall

    SUNNINGWELL — F. Warre Cornish "High Church" and "Broad Church," middle of Nineteenth Century Constable Co.

    BEAUCHAMP'S CAREER — George Meredith English Politics, middle of Nineteenth Century Constable Co.

    MARY BARTON — Mrs. Gaskell Manufacturing Districts, middle of Nineteenth Century Smith, Elder, Co.

    SUGGESTED COURSES OF READING—JUVENILE.

    As likely to assist Parents and Teachers, I propose to give two lists (covering English History from the Norman Conquest) for Boys and Girls respectively; but a passing allusion may, first of all, be made to tales dealing with more ancient periods. For the illustration of Greek and Roman History, those books of Professor A. J. Church which are entered in my Pre-Christian section may be safely recommended; while the pictures of First Century life given in Wallace's "Ben Hur," Lytton's "Last Days of Pompeii," and Whyte Melville's "The Gladiators" are, perhaps, as likely to interest an intelligent boy or girl in the "teen" stage as any similar productions that could be mentioned. Turning to the Early History of our own isle, I would specially mention Mr. Henty's "Beric the Briton"; the "Aescendune" series of tales ("Edwy the Fair," "Alfgar the Dane," and "The Rival Heirs") by the late Rev. A. D. Crake; Mr. C. W. Whistler's "Havelok the Dane," "A Thane of Wessex," and the various books chosen to represent Alfred and his times.

    In preparing the following lists, I have had in view, for the most part, the average Juvenile taste; doubtless many of the more advanced works might be offered in special cases, but, in regard to that, the Parent or Teacher can alone judge. Some of the tales entered in (I.) reappear in (II.), but a comparison will disclose important differences. A reference to the General List will, in most cases, reveal a more exact specification; for the sake of convenience, the tales are here grouped according to Reigns only.

    Of the romances dealing with American and Foreign History to be found in the foregoing pages, many are suitable for young readers; but the sequence not being very close (for any lengthy period at least), separate lists would appear superfluous. Such writers (to mention only a few) as Fennimore Cooper, Mrs. J. G. Austin, G. C. Eggleston, Kirk Munroe, and Elbridge S. Brooks, may be particularly recommended for American History; while Scott, Dumas, Charlotte M. Yonge, Miss Roberts (author of "Mademoiselle Mori"), and G. A. Henty, have all illustrated—in more or less adequate fashion—the course of events in Foreign Countries. The novels of Dumas are not infrequently considered somewhat "strong meat," but his " She- Wolves of Machecoul" and "Black Tulip" may be safely placed in any hands.

    ENGLISH HISTORY SINCE THE CONQUEST (Boys).

    HAROLD — Lytton Norman Conquest, Harold—William I. Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE CAMP OF REFUGE — C. Macfarlane Norman Conquest, Harold—William I. Constable Co.

    HEREWARD THE WAKE — Charles Kingsley Norman Conquest, Harold—William I. Macmillan Co.

    WULF THE SAXON — G. A. Henty Norman Conquest, Harold—William I. Blackie Son

    IN THE DAYS OF ST. ANSELM — G. Hollis William II. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

    COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS — Scott William II. A. C. Black

    *PABO THE PRIEST — S. Baring-Gould Henry I. Methuen Co.

    * This, the only substantial tale dealing directly with the reign of Henry I., is hardly suitable for very young folk, but it will interest those with older tastes.

    THE LEGEND OF READING ABBEY — C. Macfarlane Stephen Constable Co.

    THE KNIGHT OF THE GOLDEN CHAIN — R. D. Chetwode Stephen C. A. Pearson

    THE BETROTHED — Scott Henry II. A. C. Black

    FOREST OUTLAWS — E. Gilliat Henry II. Seeley Co.

    THE TALISMAN — Scott Richard I. A. C. Black

    IVANHOE — Scott Richard I. A. C. Black

    RUNNYMEDE AND LINCOLN FAIR — J. G. Edgar John Ward, Lock, Co.

    A STOUT ENGLISH BOWMAN — E. Pickering Henry III. Blackie Son

    HOW I WON MY SPURS — J. G. Edgar Henry III. Ward, Lock, Co.

    THE KING'S REEVE — E. Gilliat Edward I. Seeley Co.

    IN FREEDOM'S CAUSE — G. A. Henty Wallace and Bruce, Edward I.—Edward II. Blackie Son

    THE CHEVALIER OF THE SPLENDID CREST — Sir Herbert Maxwell Wallace and Bruce, Edward I.—Edward II. W. Blackwood Sons

    THE WHITE COMPANY — Conan Doyle Edward III. Smith, Elder, Co.

    THE LANCES OF LYNWOOD — Charlotte M. Yonge Edward III. Macmillan Co.

    CRECY AND POICTIERS — J. G. Edgar Edward III. Ward, Lock, Co.

    ST. GEORGE FOR ENGLAND — G. A. Henty Edward III. Blackie Son

    JOHN STANDISH — E. Gilliat Richard II. Seeley Co.

    A MARCH ON LONDON — G. A. Henty Richard II. Blackie Son

    BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER — G. A. Henty Henry IV. Blackie Son

    IN THE DAYS OF PRINCE HAL — H. Elrington Henry V. Blackie Son

    AT AGINCOURT — G. A. Henty Henry V. Blackie Son

    AGINCOURT — G. P. R. James Henry V. Warne Co.

    THE LAST OF THE BARONS — Lytton Wars of the Roses, Henry VI.—Edward IV. Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE BLACK ARROW — R. L. Stevenson Wars of the Roses, Henry VI.—Edward IV. Cassell Co.

    THE CHANTRY PRIEST OF BARNET — A. J. Church Wars of the Roses, Henry VI.—Edward IV. Seeley Co.

    HOW DICKON CAME BY HIS NAME and WHERE AVON INTO SEVERN FLOWS — Harold Frederic Wars of the Roses, Henry VI.—Edward IV. Lothrop Publishing Co.

    RED ROSE AND WHITE — A. Armitage Richard III. J. Macqueen

    THE WOODMAN — G. P. R. James Richard III. Warne Co.

    THE HEIR OF HASCOMBE HALL — E. Everett Green Henry VII. T. Nelson Sons

    THE CAPTAIN OF THE WIGHT — F. Cowper Henry VII. Seeley Co.

    WINDSOR CASTLE — Harrison Ainsworth Henry VIII. Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE ARMOURER'S 'PRENTICES — Charlotte M. Yonge Henry VIII. Macmillan Co.

    THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER — Mark Twain Edward VI. Chatto Windus

    THE COLLOQUIES OF EDWARD OSBORNE — A. Manning Edward VI. J. C. Nimmo

    THE TOWER OF LONDON — Harrison Ainsworth Mary Geo. Routledge Sons

    SEETHING DAYS — Caroline C. Holroyd Mary A. D. Innes Co.

    KENILWORTH — Scott Elizabeth A. C. Black

    WESTWARD HO! — Charles Kingsley Elizabeth Macmillan Co.

    MASTER SKYLARK — J. Bennett Elizabeth Macmillan Co.

    SIR LUDAR — T. Baines Reed Elizabeth Sampson Low Co.

    THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL — Scott James I. A. C. Black

    THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES — Harrison Ainsworth James I. Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE BLACK TOR — G. Manville Fenn James I. W. R. Chambers

    HOLMBY HOUSE — Whyte Melville Charles I. Ward, Lock, Co.

    THE SPLENDID SPUR — "Q" Charles I. Cassell Co.

    WITH THE KING AT OXFORD — A. J. Church Charles I. Seeley Co.

    WHEN CHARLES I. WAS KING — J. S. Fletcher Charles I. Gay Bird

    HUGH GWYETH — B. M. Dix Charles I. Macmillan Co.

    JOHN MARMADUKE — S. H. Church Commonwealth G. P. Putnam's Sons

    WOODSTOCK — Scott Commonwealth A. C. Black

    CAPTAIN JACOBUS — L. Cope Cornford Commonwealth Methuen Co.

    OLD ST. PAUL'S — Harrison Ainsworth Charles II. Geo. Routledge Sons

    WHITEFRIARS — Anonymous Charles II. Geo. Routledge Sons

    TRAITOR OR PATRIOT? — M. C. Rowsell Charles II. Blackie Son

    SILAS VERNEY — Edgar Pickering Charles II. Blackie Son

    OLD MORTALITY — Scott Charles II. A. C. Black

    LORNA DOONE — R. D. Blackmore James II. Sampson Low Co.

    MICAH CLARKE — Conan Doyle James II. Longmans, Green, Co.

    FOR FAITH AND FREEDOM — Walter Besant James II. Chatto Windus

    THE COURTSHIP OF MORICE BUCKLER — A. E. W. Mason James II. Macmillan Co.

    BLUE PAVILIONS — "Q" William III. Cassell Co.

    A MAN'S FOES — E. H. Strain William III. Ward, Lock, Co.

    ST. JAMES'S — Harrison Ainsworth Anne Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE CORNET OF HORSE — G. A. Henty Anne Sampson Low Co.

    THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE — G. A. Henty Anne Blackie Son

    TOM TUFTON'S TRAVELS and TOM TUFTON'S TOLL — E. Everett Green Anne T. Nelson Sons

    ROB ROY — Scott George I. A. C. Black

    DOROTHY FORSTER — W. Besant George I. Chatto Windus

    THE MISER'S DAUGHTER — Harrison Ainsworth George II. Geo. Routledge Sons

    WAVERLEY — Scott George II. A. C. Black

    NED LEGER — G. Manville Fenn George II. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

    THE FORTUNES OF CLAUDE — E. Pickering George II. Warne Co.

    THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE — R. L. Stevenson George II. Cassell Co.

    KIDNAPPED — R. L. Stevenson George II. Cassell Co.

    CATRIONA — R. L. Stevenson George II. Cassell Co.

    BARNABY RUDGE — Charles Dickens George III. Chapman Hall

    IN PRESS-GANG DAYS — E. Pickering George III. Warne Co.

    AT THE POINT OF THE BAYONET — G. A. Henty George III. Blackie Son

    WHEN GEORGE III. WAS KING — A. Sagon George III. Sands Co.

    AFLOAT WITH NELSON — Chas. H. Eden George III. J. Macqueen

    THE ROMANCE OF WAR — James Grant George III. Geo. Routledge Sons

    WITH MOORE AT CORUNNA and UNDER WELLINGTON'S COMMAND — G. A. Henty George III. Blackie Son

    GRANTLEY FENTON — M. M. Blake George III. Jarrold Sons

    FACE TO FACE WITH NAPOLEON and IN THE YEAR OF WATERLOO — O. V. Caine George III. J. Nisbet Co.

    ONE OF THE 28TH — G. A. Henty George III. Blackie Son

    A GALLANT GRENADIER — Captain Brereton Crimean War Blackie Son

    FOR THE OLD FLAG — C. R. Fenn Indian Mutiny Sampson Low Co.

    ENGLISH HISTORY SINCE THE CONQUEST (GIRLS).

    HAROLD — Lytton Norman Conquest, Harold—William I. Geo. Routledge Sons

    THE CAMP OF REFUGE — C. Macfarlane Norman Conquest, Harold—William I. Constable Co.

    IN THE DAYS OF ST. ANSELM — G. Hollis William II. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

    COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS — Scott William II. A. C. Black

    *PABO THE PRIEST — S. Baring-Gould Henry I. Methuen Co.

    * This, the only substantial tale dealing directly with the reign of Henry I., is hardly suitable for very young folk, but it will interest those with older tastes.

    THE LEGEND OF READING ABBEY — C. Macfarlane Stephen Constable Co.

    THE BETROTHED — Scott Henry II. A. C. Black

    FOREST OUTLAWS — E. Gilliat Henry II. Seeley Co.

    THE TALISMAN — Scott Richard I. A. C. Black

    IVANHOE — Scott Richard I. A. C. Black

    RUNNYMEDE AND LINCOLN FAIR — J. G. Edgar John Ward, Lock, Co.

    A CLERK OF OXFORD — E. Everett Green Henry III. T. Nelson Sons

    THE ROBBER BARON OF BEDFORD CASTLE — A. J. Foster and E. C. Cuthell Henry III T. Nelson Sons

    THE PRINCE AND THE PAGE — Charlotte M. Yonge Henry III Macmillan Co.

    THE KING'S REEVE — E. Gilliat Edward I. Seeley Co.

    THE LORD OF DYNEOVER — E. Everett Green Edward I. T. Nelson Sons

    THE SCOTTISH CHIEFS — Jane Porter Wallace and Bruce (Edward I.—Edward II.) J. M. Dent Co.

    THE DAYS OF BRUCE — Grace Aguilar Wallace and Bruce (Edward I.—Edward II.) Warne Co.

    GOD, THE KING, MY BROTHER — Mary F. Nixon Roulet Edward III. Ward, Lock, Co.

    THE LANCES OF LYNWOOD — Charlotte M. Yonge Edward III. Macmillan Co.

    IN THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY — E. Everett Green Edward III. T. Nelson Sons

    ROBERT ANNYS, POOR PRIEST — Annie N. Meyer Richard II. Macmillan Co.

    THE BANNER OF ST. GEORGE — M. Bramston Richard II. Duckworth Co.

    BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER — G. A. Henty Henry IV. Blackie Son

    IN THE DAYS OF PRINCE HAL — H. Elrington Henry V. Blackie Son

    A CHAMPION OF THE FAITH — J. M Callwell Henry V. Blackie Son

    AGINCOURT — G. P. R. James Henry V. Warne Co.

    TWO PENNILESS PRINCESSES — Charlotte M. Yonge Henry VI. Macmillan Co.

    THE LAST OF THE BARONS — Lytton Wars of the Roses (Henry VI.—Edward IV.) Geo. Routledge Sons

    GRISLY GRISSELL — Charlotte M. Yonge Wars of the Roses (Henry VI.—Edward IV.) Macmillan Co.

    IN THE WARS OF THE ROSES — E. Everett Green Wars of the Roses (Henry VI.—Edward IV.) T. Nelson Sons

    RED ROSE AND WHITE — A. Armitage Richard III. J. Macqueen

    THE WOODMAN — G. P. R. James Richard III. Warne Co

    THE HEIR OF HASCOMBE HALL — E. Everett Green Henry VII. T. Nelson Sons

    THE HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THOMAS MORE — A. Manning Henry VIII. J. C. Nimmo

    MY FRIEND ANNE — Jessie Armstrong Henry VIII. Warne Co.

    THE ARMOURER'S PRENTICES — Charlotte M. Yonge Henry VIII. Macmillan Co.

    THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER — Mark Twain Edward VI. Chatto Windus

    THE MAID OF LONDON BRIDGE — S. Gibney Edward VI. Jarrold Sons

    THE COLLOQUIES OF EDWARD OSBORNE — A. Manning Edward VI.—Mary J. C Nimmo

    SEETHING DAYS — Caroline C. Holroyd Edward VI.—Mary A. D. Innes Co.

    KENILWORTH — Scott Elizabeth A. C. Black

    WESTWARD HO! — Charles Kingsley Elizabeth Macmillan Co.

    UNKNOWN TO HISTORY — Charlotte M. Yonge Elizabeth Macmillan Co.

    PENSHURST CASTLE — Emma Marshall Elizabeth Seeley Co.

    MASTER SKYLARK — J. Bennett Elizabeth Macmillan Co.

    THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL — Scott James I. A. C. Black

    THE LOST TREASURE OF TREVLYN — E. Everett Green James I. T. Nelson Sons

    HOLMBY HOUSE — Whyte Melville Charles I. Ward, Lock, Co.

    MIRIAM CROMWELL — Dora McChesney Charles I. W. Blackwood Sons

    TO RIGHT THE WRONG — Edna Lyall Charles I. Hurst Blackett

    IN SPITE OF ALL — Edna Lyall Charles I. Hurst Blackett

    UNDER SALISBURY SPIRE — Emma Marshall Charles I. Seeley Co.

    A HAUNT OF ANCIENT PEACE — Emma Marshall Charles I. Seeley Co.

    ETHNE — Mrs. Field Commonwealth Wells, Gardner, Co.

    WOODSTOCK — Scott Commonwealth A. C. Black

    ON BOTH SIDES OF THE SEA — Mrs. Charles Commonwealth T. Nelson Sons

    AFTER WORCESTER — E. Everett Green Commonwealth T. Nelson Sons

    IN THE GOLDEN DAYS — Edna Lyall Charles II. Hurst Blackett

    CHERRY AND VIOLET — A. Manning Charles II. J. C. Nimmo

    TRAITOR OR PATRIOT? — M. C. Rowsell Charles II. Blackie Son

    THE CARVED CARTOON — Austin Clare Charles II. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

    OLD MORTALITY — Scott Charles II. A. C. Black

    WINCHESTER MEADS — Emma Marshall Charles II. Seeley Co.

    LORNA DOONE — R. D. Blackmore James II. Sampson Low Co.

    IN THE SERVICE OF RACHEL, LADY RUSSELL — Emma Marshall James II. Seeley Co.

    IN TAUNTON TOWN — E. Everett Green James II. T. Nelson Sons

    A REPUTED CHANGELING — Charlotte M. Yonge James II. Macmillan Co.

    DEB CLAVEL — M. E. Palgrave James II. Religious Tract Society

    MY MISTRESS THE QUEEN — M. A. Paull William III. Blackie Son

    KENSINGTON PALACE — Emma Marshall William III. Seeley Co.

    BY THE NORTH SEA — Emma Marshall William III. Jarrold Sons

    A MAN'S FOES — E. H. Strain William III. Ward, Lock, Co.

    THE OLD CHELSEA BUN HOUSE — A. Manning Anne J. C. Nimmo

    THE CORNET OF HORSE — G. A. Henty Anne Sampson Low Co.

    TOM TUFTON'S TRAVELS and TOM TUFTON'S TOLLS — E. Everett Green Anne T. Nelson Sons

    DOROTHY FORSTER — W. Besant George I. Chatto Windus

    DUANCE PENDRAY — G. Norway George I. Jarrold Sons

    A LOYAL LITTLE MAID — S. Tytler George I. Blackie Son

    WAVERLEY — Scott George II. A. C. Black

    MISTRESS NANCY MOLESWORTH — Joseph Hocking George II. J. Bowden

    THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE — R. L. Stevenson George II. Cassell Co.

    KIDNAPPED — R. L. Stevenson George II. Cassell Co.

    CATRIONA — R. L. Stevenson George II. Cassell Co.

    THE CHAPLAIN OF THE FLEET — W. Besant George II. Chatto Windus

    AMYOT BROUGH — E. Vincent Briton George II. Seeley Co.

    BARNABY RUDGE — Dickens George III. Chapman Hall

    MISS ANGEL — Miss Thackeray George III. Smith, Elder, Co.

    THE MAID OF SKER — R. D. Blackmore George III. Sampson Low Co.

    ALICE LORRAINE — R. D. Blackmore George III. Sampson Low Co.

    THE PARSON'S DAUGHTER — Emma Marshall George III. Seeley Co.

    FACE TO FACE WITH NAPOLEON and IN THE YEAR OF WATERLOO — O. V. Caine George III. J. Nisbet Co.

    UNDER THE MENDIPS — Emma Marshall William IV. Seeley Co.

    CASTLE DALY — Miss Keary Victoria Macmillan Co.

    In connection with this subject of Juvenile Literature, I would draw attention to Messrs. Constable's "Library of Historical Novels and Romances"—so admirably edited by Mr. G. Laurence Gomme. Readers (old as well as young) are still further indebted to Mr. Gomme for his well-arranged series of extracts taken from Romantic Literature in the four volumes entitled, "The King's Story Book," "The Queen's Story Book," "The Prince's Story Book," and "The Princess's Story Book." (Constable Co.)

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Although I have adopted the heading "Bibliography," it should be understood that, in offering the subjoined list, I do not claim for it absolute comprehensiveness. There are, of course, almost innumerable Biographies, Literary Studies, Histories of Literature and Fiction, in which indirect references to our subject may be traced. Moreover, in preparing this little volume, it has been found necessary to consult largely "The Dictionary of National Biography," the Enyclopaedias (especially Chambers', 1901), and other Standard Works of the Dictionary type. I confine myself below to noteworthy writings which deal directly with the subject of Historical Romance.

    Article on Historical Romance in The Quarterly Review. Vol. XXXV., page 518. (March, 1827.)

    Article on historical Romance ("Sir Walter Scott and his Imitators") in Fraser's Magazine. Vol. V., pages 6 (Part I.) and 207 (Part II.). (February and March, 1832.)

    Article on "The Picturesque Style of Historical Romance" in Blackwood's Magazine. Vol. XXXIII., page 621. (April, 1833.)

    Article on "Historical Romance in Italy," by G. W. Greene, in the North American Review. Vol. XLVI., page 325. (April, 1838.)

    Article on Historical Romance in Blackwood's Magazine. Vol. LVIII., page 341. (September, 1845.)

    Article on Historical Romance, by G. H. Lewes, in The Westminster Review. Vol. XLV., page 34. (March, 1846.)

    Article on "History in Fiction," in The Dublin Review. Vol. XLV., page 328. (December, 1858.)

    Lecture III. ("Scott and his Influence") in David Masson's "British Novelists and their Styles." (Macmillan, 1859.)

    Article on "Historical Novels," by H. James, jun., in The Nation. Vol. V., page 126. (August 15th, 1867.)

    Article on Historical Romance in The Argosy. Vol. XVII., page 364. (May, 1874.)

    Chapter X. ("The Waverley Novels"), in R. H. Hutton's "Sir Walter Scott." (Macmillan's English Men of Letters Series, 1878.)

    The Essay on "The Waverley Novels," in Vol. II. of Walter Bagehot's "Literary Studies." (Longmans, 1879)

    "A Descriptive Catalogue of Historical Novels and Tales. For the use of School Libraries and Teachers of History. Enlarged from the List in the 'Journal of Education,' March, 1882." Compiled and described by H. Courthope Bowen, M.A. (Edward Stanford, 1882.)

    The section on "The Historical Novel," in Bayard Tuckerman's "History of English Prose Fiction." (Putnams, 1882.)

    The Chapter on "Courses of Reading in History," in James Baldwin's "The Book Lover." (Putnams, 1886.)

    The list of Historical Novels given in W. F. Allen's "The Reader's Guide to English History. With Supplement, extending the plan to other countries and periods." (Ginn Co., 1888.)

    [A useful, but very unequal list.]

    The partially-selective list of Historical Novels in "A Guide Book to Books," by E. B. Sargant and B. Whishaw. (H. Frowde, 1891.)

    The essay on "Sir Walter Scott," in Vol. I. of Leslie Stephen's "Hours in a Library." (Smith, Elder, Co., 1892. New edition, with additions.)

    [Mr. Leslie Stephen is one of the most formidable critics with whom the lover of Historical Romance has to deal. That which it is possible to say against such fiction is said more forcibly by him, perhaps, than by anyone else.]

    The series of articles dealing with "History in Fiction," by J. B. Carlile, in Great Thoughts, October, 1892, to March, 1894.

    Article "The Historical Novel," by Prof. A. J. Church, in Atalanta for April, 1893.

    The useful and partially-selective lists of Historical Tales given in "The Intermediate Textbook of English History," by C. S. Fearenside and A. Johnson Evans. (W. B. Clive, University Tutorial Press, Ltd., 1893,

    The short selective list of Historical Tales given in the appendix to John Fiske's "History of the United States for Schools." (James Clarke Co., 1894.)

    Article on "The Historical Novel as illustrated by Sir Walter Scott," by Edwin Lester Arnold, in Atalanta for March, 1894.

    The essay on "The Historical Novel" in W. P. James's "Romantic Professions and other papers." (Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894.)

    [A re-print, in somewhat revised form, of the suggestive article appearing in Macmillan's Magazine, November, 1887.]

    Chapter X. ("Sir Walter Scott") in Prof. Raleigh's "The English Novel." (John Murray, 1894.)

    Chapters X., XI., and XII. in Prof. Saintsbury's "Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860. Second series." (J. M. Dent Co., 1895.)

    [Originally appeared in Macmillan's Magazine, August, September, and October, 1894. A contribution to the subject of quite exceptional brilliance and value.]

    "A Descriptive List of Novels and Tales dealing with the History of North America," by W. M. Griswold. (Cambridge, U.S.A., 1895.)

    The Section headed "Historical Tales" in "Guide to the Study of American History," by E. Channing and A. B. Hart. (Ginn and Co., 1896.)

    A Letter on "Historical Novels, Past and Present," by "Mazarin," in The Bookman, October, 1896.

    Article on "The Indian Mutiny in Fiction," in Blackwood's Magazine, February, 1897.

    Article on "The Importance of Illustrating New England History by a series of Romances," by Rufus Choate, in The New England Magazine, November, 1897.

    Paper read before the College of Preceptors, on "The Use of Historical Romances in the Teaching of History," by R. F. Charles in The Educational Times, November, 1897.

    Article on "The American Historical Novel," by Paul Lester Ford, in The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1897.

    [In this article a definition of the "Historical Novel" at variance with my own, has been suggested. In spite of Mr. Fords argument, I am still of opinion that the line of demarcation between the Historical Novel proper and the Novel of Character or Adventure can be more clearly drawn than he allows. I was careful, when dealing with this question in my Introduction, to avoid making the test one of actual historical accuracy, but there are, I have implied, certain readily-verifiable personages and events which form a basis amply sufficient for purposes of distinction. The pirates of "Treasure Island" are taken (as Mr. Ford says) from actual figures of the Eighteenth Century, but under my definition Stevenson's novel is not thereby constituted "historical" in the strict sense.]

    Article on "The Neo-Romantic Novel," by G. R. Carpenter, in The Forum, March, 1898.

    Article on "Historical Novels Past and Present," by Harold Frederic, in The Bookman (American), December, 1898.

    [An admirably-written, stimulating article.)

    List of Historical Novels, illustrating the Period 1066 to 1815, in the volume "Work and Play in Girls' Schools," by Dorothea Beale, Lucy H. M. Soulsby, and Jane Frances Dove (Longmans, 1898).

    "Le Roman Historique l'Epoque Romantique," by Louis Maigron (Hachette et Cie., Paris, 1898).

    [Contains a fine tribute to Scott, and much interesting matter.]

    Chapters III. and IV. of "The Development of the English Novel," by W. L. Cross (Macmillan, 1899.)

    [A very full treatment. In the Appendix are some useful lists of the earlier Historical Novels.]

    Article on "Three American Historical Romances," by W. E. Simonds, in The Atlantic Monthly, March, 1900.

    Article on "The Reading of Historical Novels and the Study of History," by Ada Shurmer, in The Scots Magazine, April, 1900.

    Chapter III. ("The Historical Novel"), in F. H. Stoddard's "The Evolution of the English Novel" (Macmillan, 1900).

    [A highly important contribution.]

    The two sections on Historical Fiction, relating to Greece and Rome respectively, in Arthur L. Goodrich's "Topics of Greek and Roman History" (Macmillan, 1900).

    [For those requiring a fuller list of Greek and Roman tales than that given in my pages, the above will be found useful.]

    Article on "Historical Novels and their uses in teaching," by C. S. Fearenside, in The School World, November, 1900.

    [An exceptionally good article. The writer states his case clearly and forcibly, and his argument is all the more convincing by reason of its moderation.]

    Article on "The New Historical Romances," by W. D. Howells, in The North American Review, December, 1900.

    The Essay on "The Historical Novel" in Prof. J. Brander Matthews' "The Historical Novel and other essays" (Scribner's, 1901).

    [Originally appeared in The Forum, September, 1897. Represents that School of Criticism which is most adverse to Historical Romance. Some of the Professor's remarks convey the impression that he disbelieves in ANY reconstruction of the Past; such an attitude is, surely, unfavourable to History itself, which is always more than any mere statement of "facts."]

    The List of Historical Novels in Mudie's Library Catalogue (The New Enlarged Edition, January, 1902).

    [Non-selective, but useful more especially on account of its Topographical arrangement.]

    The list of Historical Tales given in J. S. Lindsey's "Certificate Note-Book of European History, 1814-1848." (Heffer Sons, Cambridge, 1902).

    "History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century," by Henry A. Beers (Kegan Paul Co., 1902).

    [Contains some valuable direct criticism. See especially Chapter I.]

    The "Dedicatory Epistle" in Scott's "Ivanhoe."

    The very brief but exceedingly suggestive opening section in Chapter I. of Charles Reade's "The Cloister and the Hearth."

    The Preface to Scheffel's "Ekkehard."

    NOTE.

    Some of the American Public Libraries (notably Boston) have issued useful Lists of Historical Novels.

    Two works—announced for a considerable time—I should have been glad to consult; these are Mr. P. L. Ford's "The American Historical Novel" (Macmillan), and Mr. E. A. Baker's "Guide to Fiction" (Sonnensehein). The last-named volume will, I understand, contain a section devoted to Historical Romance.