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warmly praised by several leadino; English reviewers. It 

 deals with the period of Hannibal's invasion of Rome — the 

 Second Punic War, and is not only a graphic and forcible 

 story of that famous campaign, but reveals a surprisingly 

 close knowledge of the period. It is almost more valuable as 

 a fragment of history than as a romance. 



Miss Agness C. Laut, of Ottawa, published a few 

 months ago a romance of the early days in the great North- 

 West, when the hitherto all-powerful Hudson's Bay Company 

 was fighting for its existence with the young and vigorous 

 Canadian company of the North-West. Her book is entitled 

 "Lords of the North," i and is the first attempt to put the 

 records of this period of Canadian history into the form of 

 romance. 



"With Ring of Shield," 2 by Mr. Knox Magee, of 

 Toronto, is a stirring tale of the days of the Hunchbacked 

 King, Richard the Third of England. 



There are several other books in Canadian fiction which, 

 although not historical :n subject, partake more of the nature 

 of the romance than the novel. Such a one is Mrs. Harrison's 

 *' Forest of Bourg-Marie," '"* which Robert Barr has so deserv- 

 edly praised in a recent article. It is the only sustained story 

 which we have of modern life in French Canada, and is on 

 the whole remarkably true to life, and a strong piece of 

 work both as regards matter and style. 



Another book of the same class is " Rose a Charlitte," * 

 by Miss Marshall Saunders of Halifax. This is a romance 

 of modern life, the scene of which is laid on the Nova Scotia 

 coast of the Bay of Fundy, among the homes of the modern 

 Acadians. Miss Saunders, is also the author of several other 

 books of fiction, "Beautiful Joe" , which was published several 

 years ago, and reached a circulation of about half a million 



1. Briggs, Toronto, 1901. Miss Laut bus since cimp eted a second 

 historical novel, "'Her^ildsof Empirn.'' 



2 Tornnto. 1900, Mr. Magee has since published "M .rk Everard," 

 (1901) a romance of Elizabethan England. 



3 Morang, Tor. .nto, 1898. 



4. Page & Co , Boston, 1898. 



