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acter are to be mentioned " For Love of Country," 

 a story of land and sea in the days of the Revolu- 

 tion, by Cyrus Townsend Brady; "A Yankee Vol- 

 unteer," of the same period, by M. Imlay Taylor; 

 " An Island Heroine," the story of a daughter of the 

 Revolution, by Mary Bfeck Sleight ; " The Conti- 

 nental Dragoon," a love story of Philipse Manor 

 House in 1778, by Robert Neilson Stephens; "The 

 Count's Snuff Box," a romance of Washington and 

 Buzzard's Bay in the War of 1812, by George R. It. 

 Rivers, and "A Herald of the West," during the 

 same period, by Joseph A. Altsheler, the authorof'A 

 Soldier of Manhattan " and " The Sun of Saratoga," 

 who published also a sequel to " The Rainbow of 

 Gold, entitled " The Hidden Mine." "A Puritan 

 Wooing," a tale of the great awakening in New 

 England, was strongly told by Frank S. Child, and 

 " Ye Lyttle Salem Maide," by Pauline Bradford 

 Mackie, was of course a story of witchcraft. " Pris- 

 oners of Hope " was the title of a tale of colonial 

 Virginia by Mary Johnston, and "The Gospel Writ 

 in Steel," a story of the American civil war, by 

 Arthur Paterson. "General Nelson's Scout" fought 

 in the same conflict, according to Byron A. Dunn, 

 and " In the Navy ; or, Father against Son." was a 

 story of naval adventures in 1861-'G5, by Warren 

 Lee Goss. " In the Depths of the First Degree " 

 was a romance of the battle of Bull Run, by James 

 Doran, and " Alicia," a tale of the American navy, 

 by Alexis. Clinton Scollard returned to the days of 

 G'ian Galeazzo Visconti, the Great Viper, for his 

 romance of "A Man at Arms"; and William H. 

 Johnson brought to light and edited a sixteenth 

 century chronicle entitled " The King's Henchman." 

 " Rembrandt " was the hero of Walter Cranston 

 Larned ; " The Love of the Princess Alice," by 

 Frank Kimball Scribner, carried us back to the 

 Thirty Years' War, and the same author assisted 

 Charles S. Bentley in the composition of "The 

 Fifth of November." " Cartagena ; or, The Lost 

 Brigade " was a story of heroism in the British war 

 with Spain. 1740-'42, by Charles W. Hall. Herman 

 T. Koerner illustrated his own story of the Uplands 

 of Baden in the seventeenth century, which was 

 entitled " Beleaguered," and Italian life forty years 

 ago was described in " The Twin Sisters of Mar- 

 tigny," by Joel Foote Bingham, D. D. The Chilian 

 war of 1818 formed the background for Archer 

 Philip Crouch's novel, "Seilorita Montenar." "I 

 am the King," by Mrs. Sheppard Stevens, was a 

 tale of the Crusaders, and "In King's Houses" an- 

 other of the reign of Queen Anne, by Mrs. J. C. R. 

 Dorr, while "Her Majesty the King" was the title 

 of a romance of the harem done into American 

 from the Arabic by James Jeffrey Roache. In 

 cheerful contrast was "David Harum." distinctively 

 a story of American life, by Edward Noyes West- 

 cott, strong and wholesome, original and tender: 

 and from Madeleine Lucette Ryley we had another 

 pen portrait of "An American Citizen." Other 

 stories of a decidedly local flavor were " Penelve ; 

 or, Among the Quakers," by Richard H. Thomas, 

 M. D. ; "A Cape Cod Week," by Annie Eliot 

 Trumbull, who wrote also " Rod's Salvation " ; 

 " Dwellers in Gotham," by Annan Dale ; " The Gray 

 House of the Quarries," on the Hudson river, by 

 Mary Harriott Norris ; " Jefferson Wildrider," by 

 Elizabeth Glover ; " Pearce Amerson's Will," by 

 the gentle and genial Richard Malcolm Johnston ; 

 " Stories of the Cherokee Hills " and " Stories of 

 Indiana," by Maurice Thompson; "The Spirit of 

 Sweetwater," by Hamlin Garland ; " The Blue 

 Ridge Mystery," by Caroline Martin ; " The Waters 

 of Caney Fork," a romance of Tennessee, by Opie 

 P. Read (Arkansas Traveler), who wrote also " A 

 Yankee from the West"; " Cis Martin; or, Fur- 

 riners in the Tennessee Mountains," by Louise R. 

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Baker; " Cinch, and Other Stories," by Miss Will 

 Allen Dromgoole ; " Under the Ban," a South Caro- 

 lina romance, by Teresa H. Strickland ; " For- 

 tune's Tangled Skein " and " On the Winning Side," 

 by Mrs. Jeannette R. H. Walworth ; " Florida Alex- 

 ander: A Kentucky Girl," by Eleanor Talbot 

 Kinkead : "Juleps and Clover," by M. Vaughan 

 Wilde; " At Yon-All's House." a Missouri nature 

 story, by James Newton Baskett; "An Idyl of the 

 Wabash, and Other Stories," by Anna Nicholas; 

 "The M. M. C.," a story of the great Rockies, by 

 Charlotte M. Vaile ; " Told in the Rockies," by A. 

 Maynard Barbour; "The Black Curtain," by Mrs. 

 Flora Haines Loughead ; " W r ay Out Yonder," the 

 romance of a new city on Puget Sound, by William 

 Lightfoot Visscher ; " Moran of ' The Lady Letty,' " 

 a story of adventure off the California coast, by 

 Frank Norris, and four other stories of which Cali- 

 fornia is the scene, viz.: "An Elusive Lover," by 

 Virna Woods; "Within White Walls," by Allan 

 Emory; "In Social Quicksands," by Mrs Laban E. 

 Smith; and "As a Man Lives," by Mary C. Ferris. 

 " A Sister to Evangeline," by Charles George Doug- 

 las Roberts, purported to be the story of Yvonne 

 Lamourie, and how she went into exile with the 

 villagers of Grand Pro, and another Acadian ro- 

 mance was " Rose a Charlitte," by Marshall Saun- 

 ders, the author of " Beautiful Joe." " The Senora's 

 Granddaughters." by Mrs. Janie Pritchard Duggan. 

 was a tale of modern Mexico ; Mrs. Schuyler Crown- 

 inshield published " Where the Trade Wind Blows : 

 West Indian Tales," and "Latitude 19," a romance 

 of the same region, and George Cunyngham Cun- 

 ningham, " Tales from the Land of Manana." 

 " Forest Lily," by James Donald Dunlop, D. D., had 

 its scene laid in northern Ontario. "A Bride of 

 Japan " was by W. Carlton Dawe, and " Madame 

 Butterfly," a collection of Japanese stories, we owe 

 to John Luther Long. Louis Becke and Walter 

 Jeffrey were the joint authors of "The Mutineer," 

 a romance of Pitcairn Island, and " Hassan, a 

 Fellah," was a romance of Palestine, by Henry 

 Gillman. " In Gold We Trust," by A. H. Frankel, 

 pictured Ghetto life in America, as " Out of Mul- 

 berry Street," by Jacob A. Riis. did tenement life 

 in New York city. Books which found readers 

 were "The Marbe'au Cousins," by Harry Stillwell 

 Edwards ; " Regret of Spring : A Love Episode," by 

 Pitts Harrison Burt ; " Unspotted from the World." 

 by Mary Stewart ; " As Having Nothing," by Hester 

 Caldwell Oakley ; " Miriam," by Gustav Kobbc ; 

 "The Judge," by Mrs. E. W. Peattie; "The Dull 

 Miss Archinard," by Anne Douglas Sedgwick ; 

 " Annice Wynkoop, Artist," by Adelaide L. Rouse; 

 " Phoebe Tilson," by Mrs. Frank Pope Humphrey ; 

 " The Celebrity : An Episode," by Winston Church- 

 ill ; " Miss Theodora," by Helen Leah Reed, a story 

 of the West End of Boston ; " Fortuna: A Story of 

 Wall Street," by James Blanchard Clews ; " One of 

 the Pilgrims," a bank story, by Anna Fuller ; 

 " Four Months After Date," a business romance, by 

 Randall Irving Tyler; the "Tale of an Amateur 

 Adventuress," by Elizabeth Kingsbury ; " Warren 

 Hyde," by Helen Riemensnyder; "Two Summer 

 Girls and I," by Theodore Burt Sayre ; " Her Lady- 

 ship's Elephant," by David Dwight Wells; "A 

 Member of Congress," by William Went worth: 

 "An Experimental Wooing," by Tom Hall; and 

 "A Country Tragedy," by F.Cameron Hall. W. 

 G. Zeigler maintained ""it was Marlowe." The 

 woman question is dealt with in " The Gospel of 

 Freedom," by Robert Herrick; "The Heterodox 

 Marriage of a New Woman," by Mary Ives Todd : 

 and " A Champion in the Seventies," by Edith A. 

 Barnett. Divorce was the theme of " Bound by the 

 Law," by Kate Tyson Marr. and " Let No Man Put 

 Asunder," by Josephine Marie, presumably held the 



