It is unnecessary and might be tedious to consider at length each of Miss Johnston’s books. Until the publication of _Hagar_ in 1913 all her work had been historical and had consisted, with the exception of _The Goddess of Reason_, of novels whose scenes lay wholly or mostly in Virginia. Her treatment was in the main chronological, the only departure from this being her first two books. _Prisoners of Hope_ (1898) was a story of colonial Virginia beginning about 1663; _To Have and To Hold_ (1900) is a romance of the Jamestown settlement starting in 1621. Then came _Audrey_ (1902) dealing with Virginia in the time of Col. William Byrd and _Lewis Rand_ (1908) which pictured the Virginia of Jefferson. _The Long Roll_ (1911) and _Cease Firing_ (1912) gave us the State during the Civil War. There was another romance, _Sir Mortimer_, between _Audrey_ and _Lewis Rand_, and before _The Goddess of Reason_, which was perhaps as near a failure as Miss Johnston could come. Very likely, as suggested by Meredith Nicholson in an article in the _Book News Monthly_ of March, 1911, Miss Johnston’s preoccupation with the poetic drama of the French Revolution which was to become _The Goddess of Reason_ was to blame. _The Goddess of Reason_ gave her dramatic genius full play; Julia Marlowe’s acting showed it to be something better than a closet drama. In its breadth and splendor this work showed Miss Johnston at her full power, the power which was to give us _The Long Roll_ and _Cease Firing_ within the next five years. Although in _The Witch_, her next novel after _Hagar_, our writer went back to Colonial times it was to interpret the present in the light of the past and to show with some of the psychological keenness of _Lewis Rand_ and the dramatic action of her earlier books a panorama of prejudice and persecution “spiritually overcome by gallant faith and joy of living.” _The Fortunes of Garin_ (1915) was pure romance and adventure set in Southern France of the time of the Crusades and colored as richly as a tapestry. Garin, of a poor but noble family, ready for a fight or a frolic, fights gloriously in the Holy Land and comes back to France to fight as gloriously in a civil war. In time he finds that the princess in whose defense and behalf he has been battling is the girl whom he rescued from peril years before. Of _The Wanderers_ (1917) we have already spoken. _Foes_ (1918) is a story of boyhood friendship transformed into lasting hate. The setting is Scotland, before and after the Stuart rebellion crushed at Culloden. The unusual and picturesque story is superbly told in most poetic prose. How Miss Johnston gets her effects may be illustrated, in closing, by two examples from _The Long Roll_. Illustrated, we say, not _shown_ in the sense of enabling any one else to get them. Unless you have her dramatic and imaginative genius you will never be able to take raw material of your own and work a similar magic! Here is Steve Dagg, the coward: