GOOD FICTION WORTH READING.
A series of romances containing several of the old favorites in the fieldof historical fiction, replete with powerful romances of love anddiplomacy that excel in thrilling and absorbing interest.
WINDSOR CASTLE. A Historical Romance of the Reign of Henry VIII, Catharineof Aragon and Anne Boleyn. By Wm. Harrison Ainsworth. Cloth 12mo. withfour illustrations by George Cruikshank. Price, $1.00.
"Windsor Castle" is the story of Henry VIII., Catharine, and Anne Boleyn."Bluff King Hal," although a well-loved monarch, was none too good a onein many ways. Of all his selfishness and unwarrantable acts, none was morediscreditable than his divorce from Catharine, and his marriage to thebeautiful Anne Boleyn. The King's love was as brief as it was vehement.Jane Seymour, waiting maid on the Queen, attracted him, and Anne Boleynwas forced to the block to make room for her successor. This romance isone 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 Americans thanHorseshoe Robinson, and this because it is the only story which depictswith fidelity to the facts the heroic efforts of the colonists in SouthCarolina to defend their homes against the brutal oppression of theBritish under such leaders as Cornwallis and Tarleton.
The reader is charmed with the story of love which forms the thread of thetale, and then impressed with the wealth of detail concerning those times.The picture of the manifold sufferings of the people, is never overdrawn,but painted faithfully and honestly by one who spared neither time norlabor in his efforts to present in this charming love story all that pricein blood and tears which the Carolinians paid as their share in thewinning of the republic.
Take it all in all, "Horseshoe Robinson" is a work which should be foundon every book-shelf, not only because it is a most entertaining story, butbecause of the wealth of valuable information concerning the colonistswhich it contains. That it has been brought out once more, wellillustrated, is something which will give pleasure to thousands who havelong desired an opportunity to read the story again, and to the many whohave tried vainly in these latter days to procure a copy that they mightread 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 anew eachtime one reads them. One sees the "sea like an unbroken mirror all aroundthe pine-girt, lonely shores of Orr's Island," and straightway comes "theheavy, hollow moan of the surf on the beach, like the wild angry howl ofsome savage animal."
Who can read of the beginning of that sweet life, named Mara, which cameinto this world under the very shadow of the Death angel's wings, withouthaving an intense desire to know how the premature bud blossomed? Againand again one lingers over the descriptions of the character of that babyboy Moses, who came through the tempest, amid the angry billows, pillowedon 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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