Good Fiction Worth Reading.
A series of romances containing several of the old favorites in thefield of historical fiction, replete with powerful romances of love anddiplomacy that excel in thrilling and absorbing interest.
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WINDSOR CASTLE. A Historical Romance of the Reign of Henry VIII.,Catharine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. By Wm. Harrison Ainsworth. Cloth,12mo. with four illustrations by George Cruikshank. Price, $1.00.
"Windsor Castle" is the story of Henry VIII., Catharine, and AnneBoleyn. "Bluff King Hal," although a well-loved monarch, was none toogood a one in many ways. Of all his selfishness and unwarrantable acts,none was more discreditable than his divorce from Catharine, and hismarriage to the beautiful Anne Boleyn. The King's love was as brief asit was vehement. Jane Seymour, waiting maid on the Queen, attractedhim, and Anne Boleyn was forced to the block to make room for hersuccessor. This romance is one of extreme interest to all readers.
HORSESHOE ROBINSON. A tale of the Tory Ascendency in South Carolina in1780. By John P. Kennedy. Cloth, 12mo. with four illustrations by J.Watson Davis. Price, $1.00.
Among the old favorites in the field of what is known as historicalfiction, there are none which appeal to a larger number of Americansthan Horseshoe Robinson, and this because it is the only story whichdepicts with fidelity to the facts the heroic efforts of the colonistsin South Carolina to defend their homes against the brutal oppressionof the British under such leaders as Cornwallis and Tarleton.
The reader is charmed with the story of love which forms the thread ofthe tale, and then impressed with the wealth of detail concerning thosetimes. The picture of the manifold sufferings of the people, is neveroverdrawn, but painted faithfully and honestly by one who sparedneither time nor labor in his efforts to present in this charming lovestory all that price in blood and tears which the Carolinians paid astheir share in the winning of the republic.
Take it all in all, "Horseshoe Robinson" is a work which should befound on every book-shelf, not only because it is a most entertainingstory, but because of the wealth of valuable information concerning thecolonists which it contains. That it has been brought out once more,well illustrated, is something which will give pleasure to thousandswho have long desired an opportunity to read the story again, and tothe many who have tried vainly in these latter days to procure a copythat they might read it for the first time.
THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND. A story of the Coast of Maine. By HarrietBeecher Stowe. Cloth, 12mo. Illustrated. Price, $1.00.
Written prior to 1862, the "Pearl of Orr's Island" is ever new; a bookfilled with delicate fancies, such as seemingly array themselves aneweach time one reads them. One sees the "sea like an unbroken mirror allaround the pine-girt, lonely shores of Orr's Island," and straightwaycomes "the heavy, hollow moan of the surf on the beach, like the wildangry howl of some savage animal."
Who can read of the beginning of that sweet life, named Mara, whichcame into this world under the very shadow of the Death angel's wings,without having an intense desire to know how the premature budblossomed? Again and again one lingers over the descriptions of thecharacter of that baby boy Moses, who came through the tempest, amidthe angry billows, pillowed on his dead mother's breast.
There is no more faithful portrayal of New England life than that whichMrs. Stowe gives in "The Pearl of Orr's Island."
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For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price bythe publishers,A. L. BURT COMPANY, 52-58 Duane St., New York.