=MIFANWY.= The story of a Welsh Singer. By Allan Raine. Cloth, 12mo.
with four illustrations by J. Watson Davis. Price, $1.00.
“This is a love story, simple, tender and pretty as one would care to
read. The action throughout is brisk and pleasing; the characters,
it is apparent at once, are as true to life as though the author had
known them all personally. Simple in all its situations, the story
is worked up in that touching and quaint strain which never grows
wearisome, no matter how often the lights and shadows of love are
introduced. It rings true, and does not tax the imagination.”--Boston
Herald.
=WINDSOR CASTLE.= A Historical Romance of the Reign of Henry VIII.,
Catharine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. By Wm. Harrison Ainsworth. Cloth,
12mo. with four 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 one in many ways. Of all his selfishness and unwarrantable
acts, none was more discreditable than his divorce from Catharine,
and his marriage to the beautiful Anne Boleyn. The King’s love was as
brief as it was vehement. Jane Seymour, waiting maid on the Queen,
attracted him, and Anne Boleyn was forced to the block to make room
for her successor. This romance is one of extreme interest to all
readers.
=HORSESHOE ROBINSON.= A tale of the Tory Ascendency in South Carolina
in 1780. 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 historical
fiction there are none which appeal to a larger number of Americans
than Horseshoe Robinson, and this because it is the only story
which depicts with fidelity to the facts the heroic efforts of the
colonists in South Carolina to defend their homes against the brutal
oppression of the British under such leaders as Cornwallis and
Tarleton.
The reader is charmed with the story of love which forms the thread
of the tale, 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 nor labor in his efforts to present in this
charming love story all that price in blood and tears which the
Carolinians paid as their share in the winning of the republic.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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