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n Seltzer. Two Vanrevels, The. By Booth Tarkington. Uncle William. By Jennette Lee. Up from Slavery. By Booker T. Washington. Vanity Box, The. By C. N. Williamson. Vashti. By Augusta Evans Wilson. Varmint, The. By Owen Johnson. Vigilante Girl, A. By Jerome Hart. Village of Vagabonds, A. By F. Berkeley Smith. Visioning, The. By Susan Glaspell. Voice of the People, The. By Ellen Glasgow. Wanted--A Chaperon. By Paul Leicester Ford. Wanted: A Matchmaker. By Paul Leicester Ford. Watchers of the Plains, The. Ridgwell Cullum. Wayfarers, The. By Mary Stewart Cutting. Way of a Man, The. By Emerson Hough. Weavers, The. By Gilbert Parker. When Wilderness Was King. By Randall Parrish. Where the Trail Divides. By Will Lillibridge. White Sister, The. By Marion Crawford. Window at the White Cat, The. By Mary Roberts Rhinehart. Winning of Barbara Worth, The. By Harold Bell Wright. With Juliet in England. By Grace S. Richmond. Woman Haters, The. By Joseph C. Lincoln. Woman In Question, The. By John Reed Scott. Woman in the Alcove, The. By Anna Katharine Green. Yellow Circle, The. By Charles E. Walk. Yellow Letter, The. By William Johnston. Younger Set, The. By Robert W. Chambers. GOOD FICTION WORTH READING. A series of romances containing several of the old favorites in the field of historical fiction, replete with powerful romances of love and diplomacy that excel in thrilling and absorbing interest. DARNLEY. A Romance of the times of Henry VIII. and Cardinal Wolsey. By G. P. R. James. Cloth, 12mo. with four illustrations by J. Watson Davis. Price, $1.00. In point of publication, "Darnley" is that work by Mr. James which follows "Richelieu," and, if rumor can be credited, it was owing to the advice and insistence of our own Washington Irving that we are indebted primarily for the story, the young author questioning whether he could properly paint the difference in the characters of the two great cardinals. And it is not surprising that James should have hesitated; he had been eminently successful in giving to the world the portrait of Richelieu as a man, and by attempting a similar task with Wolsey as the theme, was much like tempting fortune. Irving insisted that "Darnley" came naturally in sequence, and this opinion being supported by Sir Walter Scott, the author set about the work. As a historical romance "Darnley" is a book that can be taken up pleasurably again and again, for there is about it that subtl
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