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The Parents Review Volume III 1892/3 pgs 71-73 [Note--typo errors were in the original] Books "En hoexkens ende boexkens." List of Historical Novels Chronologically Arranged Remarks Book Title (and author) Greece The Old Love and the New (Sir E. Creasy) Pausanias (Lord Lytton) Heroic Tales of Ancient Greece (Niebuhr) Stories of Greek Tragedians (Church) Stories from Homer (Church) Three Greek Children Heroes (Charles Kingsley) Tales of Ancient Greece (G.W. Cox) Zoroaster (M. Crawford) Byzantium Blue and Green (Pottinger) Charlemagne Passe Rise (Hardy) Anglo-Saxon The Count of the Saxon Shore (Church) 543-926 The Little Duke (Yonge) Anglo-Saxon Harold (Lytton) Egypt The Cit of Bubastis (Henty) Rome Prussias (Eckstein) Quintus Claudius (Eckstein) Nero (Eckstein) Masters of the World (M. Hoppus) Nocera (Graham) Attila (James) Victory of Vanquished (Auth. of "Schonberg-Gotha Fam.) 2000 Years Ago; or, The Adventures of a Roman Boy (Rev. A.G. Church) Claudius Gospel in Caesar's Household (Mrs. Webb) 5th century Rienzi (Lord Lytton) Homo Sum (Ebers) Roman Life, time of Cicero (Church) The Young Carthaginians (Henty) Stories from Livy (Church) Stories from Virgil (Church) Lucretia (Bulwer Lytton) Egypt The World's Desire (Lang & Haggard) B.C. 1500 Rameses Uarda (George Ebers) B.C. 536 An Egyptian Princess (George Ebers) B.C. 164, Ptolemy The Sisters (George Ebers) Serapis (George Ebers) A.D. 41, Cyril of Alex. Hypatia (Kingsley) B.C. 2000, Semiramis Sarchedon (White Melville) Rome, A.D. 1-30 Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Lew Wallace) Vespasian, 75 The Gladiators (White Melville) Pliny, 79 Last Days of Pompeii (Bulwer Lytton) Hadrian, 119 The Emperor (Ebers) Aurelian, 270 Zenobia (William Ware) Aurelian, 270 Aurelian (William Ware) Byzantine Rule, 360 Bride of the Nile (Ebers) Callista; or, Rome Enslaved (Aemilia Julia) Diocletian, 284 Fabiola; or, the Ch. of the Catacomb (Cardinal Wiseman) Marcellus, 310 Dorcas, the Daughter of Faustina (Nathan Konns) Heresy, 321 Arius the Lybian (Nathan Konns) Julian Apostate, 363 Julian; or, The Close of an Era (Bungener) Siege of Goths, 410 Antonia; or, The Fall of Rome (Collins) Anglo-Saxon Alfred The Dragon and the Raven (Henty) The Danes in England (Engelbach) Hereward the Wake (Kingsley) The Black Arrow (Stephenson) Camp of Refuge (Knight) Crusades, 12th cent. Ivanhoe (Scott) Talisman (Scott) The Betrothed (Scott) Count Robert of Paris (Scott) In Freedom's Cause (Henty) Lancers of Lynwood (Yonge) 1165-1225 Philip Augustus (G.P.R. James) 1430-1484 Quentin Durward (Scott) 1433-1475 Charles the Bold (Alex. Dumas) 1457-1482 Mary of Burgundy (G.P.R. James) 1489-1507 Constable of Bourbon (Harrison Ainsworth) 1480-1530 Messer Agnolo's Household (Leader Scott) Scotland Cheshire Pilgrims (Wilfred) Plantagenets Robert III Fair Maid of Perth (Scott) Days of Bruce (Aguilar) Houses of Lancaster and York Wars of the Roses Chantrey, Priest of Barnet (Church) Last of the Barons (Lytton) Tower of London (Ainsworth) Splendid Spur (Q) Lanc. & York Anne of Geierstein (Scott) Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) Florentine Romola (Eliot) Dove in the Eagle's Nest (Miss Yonge) Tudor Windsor Castle (Ainsworth) Westward Ho! Micah Clarke (Conan Doyle) Lorna Doone (Blackmore) Kenilworth (Scott) Monastery and Abbot (Scott) The Queen's Maries (White Melville) Darnley (G.P.R. James) The Fishers of the Dove (H. Martineau) Judith Shakespeare (Black) 16th Century St. Bartholomew's Eve (Holt) Unknown to History (Yonge) Mary Stuart (Lamartine) 1300 Luther's Life Chronicles of Schonberg-Gotha Family (Mrs. Charles) Niccolo de Lapi (Massimo d'Agglio) Stuart John Inglesant (Shorthouse) The Hampdens (H. Martineau) Legend of Montrose (Scott) Guy Fawkes (Ainsworth) Holmby House (White Melville) St. George and St. Michael (G. Macdonald) Strafford (Barton Baker) Children of the New Forest (Mayne Reid) The Boy Cavaliers (H.C. Adams) Arabella Stuart (G.P.R. James) The Huguenot Family (Sarah Tytler) With the King at Oxford (White Melville) Fortunes of Nigel (Scott) Peveril of the Peak (Scott) 17th Century Commonwealth Woodstock (Scott) Andrew Marvel (Sybree) Milton's Wife Mary Powell (Miss Manning) Old Mortality (Scott) Red Gauntlet (Scott) Hanover Esmond (Thackeray) Virginians (Thackeray) Dorothy Foster (Besant) Chaplain of the Fleet (Besant) Diary of Kitty Trevelyan (Mrs. Charles) Rob Roy (Scott) Little Blue Lady Alice Lorraine (Blackmore) Barnaby Rudge (Dickens) With Wolfe in Canada (Henty) With Clive in India (Henty) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) French Revolution Jackanapes (Ewing) Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) Atelier de Lys (Lathom Roberts) 18th Century On the Edge of the Storm (Lathom Roberts) M., the Viscount's Friend (Mrs. Ewing) Peasant and the Prince (H. Martineau) Blockade of Phalsburg (Erckmann-Chatrian) La Vendée (Trollope) Mdlle. Mathilde (H. Kingsley) Foreign Countries Italy Romola (Eliot) Lion of St. Mark (Henty) Makers of Florence (Oliphant) Makers of Venice (Oliphant) Vittoria (Meredith) Lorenzo Benoni (Ruffini) Dr. Antonio Sforza (Aster) Valentine The Netherlands Cloister and the Hearth (Reade) In Troubled Times (Wallace) Sweden By Royal Favour (Wilson) Constantinople Theodora Phranga (Neale) Russia Ivan Birin (Sir A. Helps) India A Noble Queen (Meadows Taylor) America The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) True to the Old Flag (Henty) With Lee in Virginia (Henty) Uncle Tom's Cabin (Beecher Stowe) The Fair God (Wallace) A Great Treason (M. Hoppus) Old Boston (Stephens) The above is a full list, compiled from the seven lists sent in. Some of the very minor books have been left out. Lucy Robinson takes the prize. Mrs. Lane's reading is the more varied, and shows a wider range; but Miss Robinson's method is clear and well-classified. She also gives the fullest list. All are very interesting. Emmeline Steinthal |
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