“Hardly a sketch among them all that will not afford pleasure to the reader for its genial humor, artistic local coloring, and admirable portrayal of character.”--_Boston Home Journal._ _THE LILAC SUNBONNET._ Eighth edition. “A love story, pure and simple, one of the old-fashioned, wholesome, sunshiny kind, with a pure-minded, sound-hearted hero, and a heroine who is merely a good and beautiful woman; and if any other love story half so sweet has been written this year it has escaped our notice.”--_New York Times._ “The general conception of the story, the motive of which is the growth of love between the young chief and heroine, is delineated with a sweetness and a freshness, a naturalness and a certainty, which places ‘The Lilac Sunbonnet’ among the best stories of the time.”--_New York Mail and Express._ BY ALBERT LEE. 12mo. Cloth. $1.00; paper, 50 cents. IN APPLETONS’ TOWN AND COUNTRY LIBRARY. The Gentleman Pensioner. The scene of this admirable historical romance is laid in the tumultuous England of the sixteenth century, at the time when the plots of the partisans of Mary Stuart against Elizabeth seemed to be approaching a culmination. The hero, Queen Elizabeth’s confidential messenger, has a trust to execute which involves a thrilling series of adventures. This stirring romance has been compared to “A Gentleman of France,” and it is safe to say that no reader will find in its pages any reason for flagging interest or will relinquish the book until the last page has been reached. The Key of the Holy House. A Romance of Old Antwerp. “A romance of Antwerp in the days of the Spanish oppression. Mr. Lee handles it in vigorous fashion.”--_London Spectator._ “This is a fascinating specimen of the historical romance at its best, the romance which infuses energetic life into the dry facts of history.”--_Philadelphia Press._ D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: --Seene, on page 110, has been changed to scene. --Bench, on page 153, has been changed to Bunch. --Lateen, on page 86, has been changed to nankeen, to match the later description of the sail. --The redundant no on page 247 has been removed. --Dialect has not been regularized across this e-book. --Spelling and hyphenation have been rendered as typeset.