Eighteenth Century.
THE PIRATE — Scott Shetland and Orkney Islands, 1700 A. & C. Black
ESMOND — Thackeray Time of Anne Smith, Elder, & Co.
DEVEREUX — Lytton Time of Anne (England and Abroad) Geo. Routledge & Sons
ST. JAMES’S — Harrison Ainsworth Time of Anne Geo. Routledge & Sons
THE OLD CHELSEA BUN HOUSE — Miss Manning Time of Anne J. C. Nimmo
ACROSS THE SALT SEAS — J. Bloundelle Burton Time of Anne (Battle of Blenheim) Methuen & Co.
THE QUEEN’S SERF — Elsa d’Esterre Keeling Time of Anne Fisher Unwin
MOHAWKS — Miss Braddon Time of Anne J. & R. Maxwell Ditto.
IN KING’S HOUSES — Julia C. R. Dorr Time of Anne Duckworth & Co.
THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE — G. A. Henty Time of Anne (Peterborough) Blackie & Son
THE CORNET OF HORSE — G. A. Henty Time of Anne (Duke of Marlborough) Sampson Low & Co.
IN THE IRISH BRIGADE — G. A. Henty Time of Anne (Foreign Wars). Blackie & Son
TOM TUFTON’S TRAVELS and TOM TUFTON’S TOLL — E. Everett Green Time of Anne T. Nelson & Sons
ESTHER VANHOMRIGH — Margaret L. Woods Dean Swift John Murray
THE BLACK DWARF — Scott The Lowlands of Scotland, 1706 (Jacobites) A. & C. Black
AN IMPERIAL LOVER — M. Imlay Taylor Russia—Peter the Great Gay & Bird
BORIS THE BEAR-HUNTER and A LOST ARMY — F. Whishaw Russia (from late Seventeenth Century) T. Nelson & Sons
CAPTAIN SINGLETON — Defoe Time of George I. J. M. Dent & Co.
FOR THE KING — C. Gibbon Time of George I. Chatto & Windus
THE HERITAGE OF LANGDALE — Mrs. Alexander Time of George I. Hutchinson & Co.
PARSON KELLY — A. E. W. Mason and A. Lang Time of George I. Longmans, Green, & Co.
DUANCE PENDRAY — G. Norway Time of George I. (Cornish Jacobites) Jarrold & Sons
MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE — Booth Tarkington Bath—early Eighteenth Century John Murray
THE RAIDERS and THE DARK O’ THE MOON — S. R. Crockett Galloway—early Eighteenth Century Fisher Unwin and Macmillan & Co.
ROB ROY — Scott The Jacobites A. & C. Black
DOROTHY FORSTER — Walter Besant The Jacobites Chatto & Windus
A DAUGHTER OF STRIFE — J. H. Findlater The Jacobites Methuen & Co.
A LOYAL LITTLE MAID — S. Tytler The Jacobites Blackie & Son
TO ARMS! — A. Balfour The Jacobites Methuen & Co.
*CLEMENTINA — A. E. W. Mason The Old Pretender and Princess Clementina Sobieski Methuen & Co.
* Decidedly superior to the same Author’s "Lawrence Clavering" (also Jacobite period).
A JACOBITE EXILE — G. A. Henty Charles XII. of Sweden Blackie & Son
TIMES OF CHARLES XII. — Z. Topelius (trans.) Charles XII. of Sweden Jansen & Co., Chicago
LE CHEVALIER D’HARMENTHAL — Dumas (translation) France—the Regency (1718) J. M. Dent & Co.
THE REGENT’S DAUGHTER — Dumas (translation) France—the Regency (1719) J. M. Dent & Co.
THE YEMASSEE — W. G. Simms South Carolina, 1715 W. J. Widdleton, New York, 1866 (Revised Ed.)
FREE TO SERVE — E. Rayner Colonial New York G. P. Putnam’s Sons
AUDREY — Mary Johnston Virginia, in George I-II. Period Constable & Co.
HALIL THE PEDLAR — M. Jokai (trans.) Stambul, 1730 Jarrold & Sons
THE MISER’S DAUGHTER — Harrison Ainsworth Time of George II. Geo. Routledge & Sons
THE WORLD WENT VERY WELL THEN — Walter Besant Time of George II. Chatto & Windus
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN — Scott Time of George II. (Porteous Riots) A. & C. Black
WILLOWDENE WILL — Halliwell Sutcliffe Time of George II. C. A. Pearson
THE GIPSY — G. P. R. James Time of George II. Warne & Co.
NED LEGER — G. Manville Fenn Time of George II. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
RODERICK RANDOM — Smollett Time of George II. Constable & Co.
TREASURE TROVE — S. Lover Time of George II. (Fontenoy) Constable & Co.
WHERE HONOUR LEADS — Marian Francis Time of George II. (Fontenoy) Hutchinson & Co.
THE HOUSE DIVIDED — H. B. Marriott Watson Time of George II. Harper & Brothers
LADY GRIZEL — Lewis Wingfield Time of George II. Bentley, 1877
FOR THE WHITE ROSE OF ARNO — Owen Rhoscomyl Wales, in 1745 Longmans, Green, & Co.
WAVERLEY — Scott The Jacobites A. & C. Black
MISTRESS NANCY MOLESWORTH — Joseph Hocking The Jacobites J. Bowden
THE FORTUNES OF CLAUDE — Edgar Pickering The Jacobites Warne & Co.
A LOST LADY OF OLD YEARS — J. Buchan The Jacobites John Lane
DENOUNCED — J. Bloundelle Burton The Jacobites Methuen & Co.
RICROFT OF WITHENS — Halliwell Sutcliffe The Jacobites Fisher Unwin
THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE — R. L. Stevenson The Jacobites Cassell & Co.
AN EXILED SCOT — H. A. Bryden The Jacobites (The Cape) Chatto & Windus
SIR SERGEANT — W. L. Watson The Jacobites W. Blackwood & Sons
KIDNAPPED — R. L. Stevenson Scotland, 1751 Cassell & Co.
CATRIONA — R. L. Stevenson Scotland, 1751 Cassell & Co.
THE SHOES OF FORTUNE — Neil Munro Jacobites, 1755 Isbister & Co.
THE BIRTHRIGHT — Joseph Hocking Time of John Wesley (Cornwall) J. Bowden
HUMPHREY CLINKER — Smollett Manners, mid. Eighteenth Century Constable & Co.
THE CHAPLAIN OF THE FLEET — W. Besant and J. Rice Manners, mid. Eighteenth Century Chatto & Windus
MOONFLEET — J. Meade Falkner Smugglers, 1757 E. Arnold
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PEG WOFFINGTON — Charles Reade The Stage, middle of Eighteenth Century Chatto & Windus
THE JESSAMY BRIDE — F. Frankfort Moore Goldsmith, Garrick, &c. Hutchinson & Co.
MEMOIRS OF BARRY LYNDON — Thackeray World of fashion, from middle to end of Eighteenth Century Smith, Elder, & Co.
THE BATH COMEDY — Agnes & Egerton Castle Bath, middle of Eighteenth Century Macmillan & Co.
THE DUTCHMAN’S FIRESIDE — J. K. Paulding New York, middle of Eighteenth Century Scribners
IN OLD NEW YORK — Wilson Barrett and E. Barron New York, middle of Eighteenth Century J. Macqueen
AGNES SURRIAGE — Edwin L. Bynner America (Boston), middle of Eighteenth Century Sampson Low & Co.
FAIRFAX — J. E. Cooke Valley of the Shenandoah, 1748-81 Sampson Low & Co.
WITH CLIVE IN INDIA — G. A. Henty India, middle Eighteenth Century Blackie & Son
RALPH DANIELL — Meadows Taylor India, middle Eighteenth Century Kegan, Paul, & Co.
LIKE ANOTHER HELEN — Sydney C. Grier India, middle Eighteenth Century W. Blackwood & Sons
IVAN DE BIRON — Sir Arthur Helps Russia, middle Eighteenth Century Chatto & Windus
THE KING’S "BLUE BOYS" — Sheila E. Braine Frederick William I. of Prussia and his Giant Grenadiers Jarrold & Sons
THE CITIZEN OF PRAGUE — C. L. A. Paalzow (translation) Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria H. Colburn, 1846
CONSUELO and THE COUNTESS OF RUDOLSTADT — George Sand (trans.) Time of Frederick the Great Walter Scott
*FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS FAMILY — Louise Muhlbach (translation) Time of Frederick the Great D. Appleton & Co.
* One of L. Muhlbach’s several romances dealing with this period.
GAVIN HAMILTON — M. E. Seawell The Seven Years War Harper & Brothers
WITH FREDERICK THE GREAT — G. A. Henty The Seven Years War Blackie & Son
A FALLEN STAR — C. Lowe The Seven Years War Downey & Co.
AMYOT BROUGH — E. Vincent Briton England and Canada, middle of Eighteenth Century Seeley & Co.
THE FORGE IN THE FOREST — C. D. G. Roberts Canada, middle Eighteenth Century Kegan, Paul, & Co.
A SISTER TO EVANGELINE — C. D. G. Roberts Canada, middle Eighteenth Century John Lane
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THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY — Gilbert Parker The Taking of Quebec Methuen & Co.
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS — Fennimore Cooper Montcalm, 1757 Macmillan & Co.
THE STORY OF OLD FORT LOUDON — C. E. Craddock North America, 1758. (French War) Macmillan & Co.
FORTUNE’S MY FOE — J. Bloundelle Burton Cartagena, 1758 Methuen & Co.
THE VIRGINIANS — Thackeray America and England, George II.-III. Smith, Elder, & Co.
THE GOLDEN DOG — William Kirby Quebec, in the days of Louis XV. Jarrold & Sons
OLYMPE DE CLEVES — Dumas (translation) France, Louis XV. J. M. Dent & Co.
THE HOUSE OF DE MAILLY — Margaret H. Potter France, Louis XV. Harper & Brothers
THE LITTLE HUGUENOT — Max Pemberton France, Louis XV. Cassell & Co.
THE LAST RECRUIT OF CLARE’S — S. R. Keightley Marquise de Pompadour, &c. (Irish Brigade stories) Hutchinson & Co.
THE FAVOR OF PRINCES — Mark L. Luthur Adventure in time of Louis XV. Macmillan & Co.
MEMOIRS OF A PHYSICIAN — Dumas (translation) Louis XV.-XVI. (1770-74) J. M. Dent & Co.
THE QUEEN’S NECKLACE — Dumas (translation) Court of Louis XVI. (1784-5) J. M. Dent & Co.
THE COUNTESS EVE — J. H. Shorthouse Burgundy, 1785 Macmillan & Co.
IN EXITU ISRAEL — S. Baring-Gould Church and State in France, 1788-9 Macmillan & Co., 1870
THE KING WITH TWO FACES — M. E. Coleridge Gustavus III. of Sweden E. Arnold
MANY WAYS OF LOVE — F. Whishaw Russia, time of Catharine II. J. M. Dent & Co.
A FORBIDDEN NAME — F. Whishaw Russia, time of Catharine II. Chatto & Windus
THE TURKISH AUTOMATON — Sheila E. Braine Russia, time of Catharine II. Blackie & Son
THE PRIDE OF JENNICO — Agnes & Egerton Castle Moravia, 1771 Macmillan & Co.
REDGAUNTLET — Scott Time of George III. A. & C. Black
GUY MANNERING — Scott Time of George III. A. & C. Black
KATERFELTO — G. J. Whyte-Melville Time of George III. (Exmoor). W. Thacker & Co. and Ward, Lock, & Co.
THE ORANGE GIRL — Walter Besant Time of George III. Chatto & Windus
*THE ROCK OF THE LION — M. E. Seawell Time of George III. Harper & Brothers
* Deals with the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783.
BARNABY RUDGE — Dickens Time of George III. (Gordon Riots) Chapman & Hall
THE MAID OF SKER — R. D. Blackmore Time of George III. Sampson Low & Co.
MISS ANGEL — Miss Thackeray Art (Reynolds & Angelica Kauffmann) Smith, Elder, & Co.
THE FATAL GIFT — F. Frankfort Moore The Sisters Gunning Hutchinson & Co.
A NEST OF LINNETS — F. Frankfort Moore R. B. Sheridan, Johnson, &c. Hutchinson & Co.
THE SURGEON’S DAUGHTER — Scott Fifeshire, Isle of Wight, and India (1780) A. & C. Black
THE CASTLE INN — Stanley Weyman English Manners, late Eighteenth Century Smith, Elder, & Co.
THE TONE KING — Heribert Rau (trans.) Mozart Jarrold & Sons
THE VIRGINIA COMEDIANS — J. E. Cooke Virginia, 1763-5 D. Appleton & Co., 1854
ALICE OF OLD VINCENNES — Maurice Thompson Fort Vincennes (Clark’s Conquest) Cassell & Co.
THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS — Daniel P. Thompson American Revolution B. B. Mussey & Co., Boston. Revised edition, 1848
*LIONEL LINCOLN — Fennimore Cooper American Revolution Geo. Routledge & Sons
* "Lionel Lincoln" treats of Boston in the time of Bunker Hill (1775); "The Spy" of Hudson River district 1782); and "The Pilot" of Paul Jones (1779).
THE SPY — Fennimore Cooper American Revolution Geo. Routledge & Sons
THE PILOT — Fennimore Cooper American Revolution Geo. Routledge & Sons
RICHARD CARVEL — Winston Churchill American Revolution Macmillan & Co.
HUGH WYNNE — S. Weir Mitchell American Revolution (Washington) Macmillan & Co.
A GREAT TREASON — Mary A. M. Hoppus American Revolution (Benedict Arnold) Macmillan & Co.
A SOLDIER OF VIRGINIA — Burton Eghert Stevenson American Revolution Duckworth & Co.
PHILIP WINWOOD — R. N. Stephens American Revolution Chatto & Windus
LOVE LIKE A GIPSY — Bernard Capes American Revolution Constable & Co.
JANICE MEREDITH — P. L. Ford American Revolution Constable & Co.
THE TORY LOVER — Sarah Orne Jewett American Revolution (Paul Jones) Smith, Elder, & Co.
CARDIGAN — R. W. Chambers American Revolution Constable & Co.
*THE FORAYERS and EUTAW — W. G. Simms American Revolution W. J. Widdleton, New York
* The two last of a series covering the American War period.
HORSE-SHOE ROBINSON — J. P. Kennedy Virginia, 1780 R. Bentley, 1835
THE DUKE OF STOCKBRIDGE — E. Bellamy Massachusetts (Shays’ Rebellion) Gay & Bird
ANGE PITOU — Dumas (translation) French Revolution period J. M. Dent & Co.
LA COMTESSE DE CHARNY — Dumas (translation) French Revolution period (1789-94) J. M. Dent & Co.
CHEVALIER DE MAISON ROUGE — Dumas (translation) French Revolution period (1793) J. M. Dent & Co.
*THE STORY OF A PEASANT — Erckmann-Chatrian (translation) French Revolution period (1789-1815) Ward, Lock, & Co.
* Collective title of the four tales—"The States-General" (1789), "The Country in Danger" (1792), "Year One of the Republic" (1793), and "Citizen Bonaparte" (1794-1815). Erckmann-Chatrian’s "Madame Therese" (translation) is another good story of this period (1792).
THE REDS OF THE MIDI — Felix Gras (translation) French Revolution period W. Heinemann
THE TERROR — Felix Gras (translation) French Revolution period W. Heinemann
THE WHITE TERROR — Felix Gras (translation) French Revolution period W. Heinemann
A TALE OF TWO CITIES — Dickens French Revolution period Chapman & Hall
L’AN ’93 — Victor Hugo (trans.) French Revolution period J. M. Dent & Co.
MY LADY MARCIA — Eliza F. Pollard French Revolution period T. Nelson & Sons
THE ATELIER DU LYS — Miss Roberts French Revolution period Longmans, Green, & Co.
ON THE EDGE OF THE STORM — Miss Roberts French Revolution period Warne & Co.
CITOYENNE JACQUELINE — S. Tytler French Revolution period Chatto & Windus
LA VENDEE — Anthony Trollope French Revolution period Colburn, 1850
THE RED COCKADE — Stanley Weyman French Revolution period Longmans, Green, & Co.
MADEMOISELLE MATHILDE — Henry Kingsley French Revolution period Ward, Lock, & Co.
THE ADVENTURES OF FRANCOIS FOUNDER — S. Weir Mitchell French Revolution period Macmillan & Co.
*A STORM-RENT SKY — M. Betham Edwards French Revolution period Hurst & Blackett
* This striking tale deals with Danton’s career. In "A Romance of Dijon" (Black) and "The Dream-Charlotte" (Black) Miss Betham Edwards has depicted earlier phases of the Revolution; the lastnamed novel takes us away from the Capital, to show us how the forces of the time affected the simple folk of Normandy.
THE ADVENTURES OF THE COMTE DE LA MUETTE — Bernard Capes French Revolution period W. Blackwood & Sons
OUR LADY OF DARKNESS — Bernard Capes French Revolution period W. Blackwood & Sons
THE RED SHIRTS — Paul Gaulot. (trans.) French Revolution period Chatto & Windus
A GIRL OF THE MULTITUDE — Anonymous French Revolution period Fisher Unwin
THE LITTLE SAINT OF GOD — Lady F. Cunningham French Revolution period Hurst & Blackett
ST. KATHERINE’S BY THE TOWER — Walter Besant French Revolution period (England, 1793) Chatto & Windus
AT THE SIGN OF THE GUILLOTINE — Harold Spender Robespierre, 1794 Fisher Unwin
THE PARSON’S DAUGHTER — Emma Marshall George Romney, the Painter Seeley & Co.
THE MAID OF MAIDEN LANE — Amelia E. Barr New York, 1791 Fisher Unwin
ARTHUR MERVYN — Charles Brocden Brown Philadelphia, 1793 (yellow fever year) H. Maxwell, Phil., 1799
ROPES OF SAND — R. E. Francillon North Devon, 1793 Chatto & Windus
A BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS — Julian Corbett Sussex Smugglers and French Conspirators Methuen & Co.
THE WHITES AND THE BLUES — Dumas (translation) Rise of Napoleon (1793-9) J. M. Dent & Co.
THE CHOIR INVISIBLE — James Lane Allen Kentucky, 1795 Macmillan & Co.
THE MILLS OF GOD — Elinor Macartney Lane Virginia and England D. Appleton & Co.
THE KING’S OWN — Marryatt Mutiny at the Nore, 1797 J. M. Dent & Co.
ADMIRAL — Douglas Sladen Nelson, 1798-9 Hutchinson & Co.
THE BATTLE OF THE STRONG — Gilbert Parker Jersey, &c., end of Eighteenth Century Methuen & Co.
IN PRESS-GANG DAYS — E. Pickering Battle of the Nile, &c. Warne & Co.
THE ANTIQUARY — Scott Scotch Manners, last decade of Eighteenth Century A. & C. Black
THE KING’S DEPUTY — H. A. Hinkson Dublin in time of Grattan Lawrence & Bullen
RORY O’MORE — S. Lover Ireland (the ’98 Rebellion) Constable & Co.
KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN — Randal McDonnell Ireland (the ’98 Rebellion) Fisher Unwin
TWO CHIEFS OF DUNBOY — J. A. Froude Ireland (the ’98 Rebellion) Longmans, Green, & Co.
THE REBELS — M. McD. Bodkin Ireland (the ’98 Rebellion) Ward, Lock, & Co.
UP FOR THE GREEN — H. A. Hinkson Ireland (the ’98 Rebellion) Lawrence & Bullen
THE CROPPY — John and Michael Banim Ireland (the ’98 Rebellion) Henry Colburn, 1828
THE INIMITABLE MRS. MASSINGHAM — Herbert Compton Gretna Green & Botany Bay, 1799 Chatto & Windus
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THE HUNGARIAN BROTHERS — A. M. Porter Vienna in the last decade of the Century Warne & Co.