What books to lend and what to giveYonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
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What books to lend and what to give
Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
Books and reading -- Great Britain; Children's literature -- Bibliography
Has a noble hero, but Algernon Sidney is scarcely a desirable subject for
enthusiasm.
=465. Under the Mendips.= By EMMA MARSHALL. (Seeley) 5_s._
Monmouth’s rebellion and its consequences.
=466. The Last of the Cavaliers.= (Bentley) 6_s._
Deservedly reprinted. On the battle of Killiecrankie.
=467. The Oak Staircase.= By M. and C. LEE. (Griffith, Farran, & Co.)
3_s._ 6_d._
The troubles of one of the maids of Taunton related by herself. A great
favourite with children.
=468. The Danvers Papers: and Lady Hester.= By C. M. YONGE. (Macmillan)
6_s._
A Puritan lady and Jacobite husband at the time of the Revolution.
=469. The Maidens’ Lodge.= By E. S. HOLT. (Shaw) 3_s._ 6_d._
A pretty picture of Queen Anne’s time.
=470. The Travels of Two Kits.= By C. M. YONGE. In ‘Byewords.’
(Macmillan) 6_s._ See No. 574.
Two children’s pilgrimage to Queen Anne to be touched for the King’s evil.
=471.= =Rob Roy=, more powerful than pleasant, comes in here.
=472. Dorothy Forster.= By W. BESANT. (Chatto & Windus) 2_s._
A powerful story of the Rebellion of 1715.
=473. Lady Betty.= By C. R. COLERIDGE. (Warne) 3_s._ 6_d._
A very graceful, lady-like tale of early Jacobite times.
=474. Lucy’s Campaign.= By M. LEE. (Griffith, Farran, & Co.) 1_s._ 6_d._
The ’45 as seen by a little girl. A great favourite with those for whom
it is meant, though there are a few anachronisms as to manners.
=475. Waverley.= By Sir WALTER SCOTT.
The unrivalled presentment of the ’45.
=476. Redgauntlet.= By Sir WALTER SCOTT.
The Jacobite plotters when their cause was worn out.
=477. Diary of Kitty Trevelyan.= By the Author of ‘Chronicles of the
Schönberg-Cotta Family.’ (Nelson) 3_s._ 6_d._
Showing the enthusiasm of Wesleyanism. To be given with due caution.
=478. With Wolfe in Canada.= By G. A. HENTY. (Blackie) 6_s._
Valuable details of the conquest.
=479. A Great Treason.= By M. HOPPUS.
Too long and involved, but showing the state of society in the American
war, especially the desertion of Arnold and the death of André.
=480. Lionel Lincoln.= By FENIMORE COOPER. To be had in cheap form.
The siege of Boston.
=481. Mother Molly.= By F. M. PEARD. (Bell) 5_s._
An admirable alarm of a French invasion at Plymouth. Very life-like.
=482. The Prisoner’s Daughter.= By ESMÉ STUART. (S.P.C.K.) 3_s._ 6_d._
French prisoners at Winchester.
=483. Clare Saville.= (Warne) 2_s._
The days of the Blanketeers and of the Peninsular war.
=484. How They were Caught in a Trap.= By ESMÉ STUART. (Marcus Ward) 5_s._
English prisoners detained in France by Napoleon I.
=485. Against the Stream.= By the Author of ‘Chronicles of the
Schönberg-Cotta Family.’ (S.P.C.K.) 4_s._
The course of opinion and improvement in England during the reign of
George III.
_TALES FROM GENERAL HISTORY._
This is a brief list, but only those have been selected which
have an interest as tales, apart from the history they are
meant to illustrate.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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