=486. Two Thousand Years Ago.= By Prof. CHURCH. (Blackie) 6_s._ The adventures of a Roman lad in the days of Cæsar and Cicero. =487. Good King Wenceslas.= By L. SCHEKKY. (S.P.C.K.) 4_d._ Why this is called a tale of old English life in the S.P.C.K. catalogue there is no guessing. Wenceslas is the King of Bohemia, well known in the ‘Christmas Carol.’ =488. The Little Duke.= By C. M. YONGE. (Macmillan) 4_s._ 6_d._ Richard the Fearless of Normandy. =489. Brothers in Arms.= (Church Extension Society) 2_s._ 6_d._ The piteous story of the children’s crusade. =490. The King of a Day.= By F. WILFORD. (Masters) 1_s._ A well-told tale of a little twelfth-day king in the fifteenth century. =491. The Constant Prince.= By C. R. COLERIDGE. (Walter Smith) 2_s._ 6_d._ The noble history of the prisoner Dom Fernando, the Christian Regulus of Portugal. =492. The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest.= By C. M. YONGE. (Macmillan) 6_s._ German barons under Maximilian. =493. The Schönberg-Cotta Family.= (Nelson) 5_s._ The early days of Luther. =494. In the Olden Time.= By the Author of ‘Mlle. Mori.’ (Longmans) 2_s._ 6_d._ The days of the peasants’ war in Germany. =495. Espérance; or, The Siege of Rouen.= By M. BRAMSTON. (S.P.C.K.) 1_s._ 6_d._ =496. For Faith and Fatherland.= By M. BRAMSTON. (S.P.C.K.) 2_s._ 6_d._ The above two are Reformation tales in France and Holland. =497. The Chaplet of Pearls.= By C. M. YONGE. (Macmillan) 6_s._ The massacre of St. Bartholomew and its consequences. =498. The Thorn Fortress.= By M. BRAMSTON. (S.P.C.K.) 1_s._ The retreat of some villagers to a hiding-place in the forests during the Thirty Years’ War, and the doings of a little girl captured by a Croat. An unusually charming book. =499. The Little Blue Lady.= By Mrs. MITCHELL. (Masters) 4_s._ 6_d._ A pretty story, though scarcely natural, of the brighter days of Marie Antoinette. =500. Seeketh not her Own.= By S. M. SITWELL. (Shaw) 3_s._ 6_d._ The story of the Lagaraye Hospital very well told. =501. Isabeau’s Hero.= By ESMÉ STUART. (S.P.C.K.) 3_s._ 6_d._ The revolt of the Cevennes, with the brave deeds of Cavalier. =502. By Fire and Sword.= (Cassell) 2_s._ 6_d._ A powerful portrait of the Huguenot persecution under Louis XV. =503. The Blue Ribbons.= By A. H. DRURY. (See No. 80.) A charming story of Marie Antoinette acting fairy to a little boy. =504. Through Rough Waters.= By F. M. PEARD. (Bell) 5_s._ The rough waters are those of the first French Revolution. =505. Max Krömer.= By HESBA STRETTON. (R.T.S.) 1_s._ 6_d._ The siege of Strasburg in the Franco-German war. =506. Kenneth; or, The Rear Guard of the Grand Army.= By C. M. YONGE. (Parker) 5_s._ The retreat from Moscow. =507. The Young Breton Volunteers.= By M. WILBRAHAM. (Masters) 1_s._ A rising of La Vendée against Napoleon in the Hundred Days. =508. Mademoiselle Mori.= (Longmans) 2_s._ 6_d._ An able and touching picture of the Italian struggles of 1848.