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Do You Know 



how fascinating English history really is? That England during the 

 past thousand years, has given to our literature more heroes and hero- 

 ines than all the rest of the world and ages? What do you know of the 

 private and personal lives of her queens, who as well as being stately 

 sovereigns, with passions of love and hate, were living, palpitating wo- 

 men? 



Do you know of that king and queen who stood bare-footed, and "all 

 naked from their waists upward," in the great hall of Westminster? 

 Or what plumber's dog licked the blood of a king? Or why Henry VII 

 hanged his four English mastiffs as traitors? Or what king apologized 

 for taking so long to die? Or why Marlborough and his duchess were 

 disgraced? 



Do you know the story of Thomas a Becket and the Emir's daughter? 

 Of fair Rosamond Clifford's bower in the labyrinth at Woodstock, and 

 the telltale silken thread on Henry's golden spur that led to her becom- 

 ing a nun? Of Richard II and the fatal trap-door of Vidomar? Of the 

 dreadful warning that hung over the bed of Isabella of Angouleme? Of 

 the queen who was discovered in London, disguised as a cook-maid? 



Do you know how the mere fact that the Duchess of Marlborough 

 putting on, by mistake, the queen's gloves, changed, as Voltaire says, 

 the destinies of Europe? Or why the great Elizabeth and her prime 

 minister had to deal secretly with Catherine de' Medici's tailors? Or 

 what that which passed between "Nan" Boleyn and King Hal beneath 

 the yew-tree in the cloistered shade of Sopewell nunnery, meant to 

 Wolsey? 



Those who are interested may have specimen pages of a work that 

 will show how English history may be had in quite a different way from 

 that presented by Hume, or Rapin, or Macaulay, or Guizot, or Hallam, 

 or Froude. 



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