favorites in the
field of historical fiction, replete with powerful romances of love and
diplomacy that excel in thrilling and absorbing interest.

GUY FAWKES. A Romance of the Gunpowder Treason. By Wm. Harrison
Ainsworth. Cloth, 12mo. with four illustrations by George Cruikshank.
Price, $1.00.

The "Gunpowder Plot" was a modest attempt to blow up Parliament,
the King and his Counsellors. James of Scotland, then King of
England, was weak-minded and extravagant. He hit upon the efficient
scheme of extorting money from the people by imposing taxes on the
Catholics. In their natural resentment to this extortion, a handful
of bold spirits concluded to overthrow the government. Finally the
plotters were arrested, and the King put to torture Guy Fawkes and
the other prisoners with royal vigor. A very intense love story
runs through the entire romance.

THE SPIRIT OF THE BORDER. A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio
Valley. By Zane Grey. Cloth. 12mo. with four illustrations by J. Watson
Davis. Price, $1.00.

A book rather out of the ordinary is this "Spirit of the Border."
The main thread of the story has to do with the work of the
Moravian missionaries in the Ohio Valley. Incidentally the reader
is given details of the frontier life of those hardy pioneers who
broke the wilderness for the planting of this great nation. Chief
among these, as a matter of course, is Lewis Wetzel, one of the
most peculiar, and at the same time the most admirable of all the
brave men who spent their lives battling with the savage foe, that
others might dwell in comparative security.

Details of the establishment and destruction of the Moravian
"Village of Peace" are given at some length, and with minute
description. The efforts to Christianize the Indians are described
as they never have been before, and the author has depicted the
characters of the leaders of the several Indian tribes with great
care, which of itself will be of interest to the student.

By no means least among the charms of the story are the vivid
word-pictures of the thrilling adventures, and the intense
paintings of the beauties of nature, as seen in the almost unbroken
forests.

It is the spirit of the frontier which is described, and one can by
it, perhaps, the better understand why men, and women, too,
wil