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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, &c.
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, &c., end of Eighteenth Century
Methuen & Co.

IN PRESS-GANG DAYS — E. Pickering
Battle of the Nile, &c.
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, &c.
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, &c. (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, &c.
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