temper, the quick dying out of wrath.... We call this a
well-written story, interesting alike through its romance and
its glimpses into another life than ours. A delightful and
clever picture of Welsh village life. The result is
excellent."--Detroit Free Press.

=MIFANWY.= The story of a Welsh Singer. By Allen Raine. Cloth, 12mo.
with four illustrations by J. Watson Davis. Price, $1.00.

"This is a love story, simple, tender and pretty as one would
care to read. The action throughout is brisk and pleasing; the
characters, it is apparent at once, are as true to life as
though the author had known them all personally. Simple in all
its situations, the story is worked up in that touching and
quaint strain which never grows wearisome, no matter how often
the lights and shadows of love are introduced. It rings true,
and does not tax the imagination."--Boston Herald.

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=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
subtle charm which those who are strangers to the works of G.
P. R. James have claimed was only to be imparted by Dumas.

If there was nothing more about the work to attract especial
attention, the account of the meeting of the kings on the
historic "field of the cloth of gold" would entitle the story
to the most favorable consideration