aft.

In this book he laid the story during those later days of the
great cardinal's life, when his power was beginning to wane,
but while it was yet sufficiently strong to permit now and then
of volcanic outbursts which overwhelmed foes and carried
friends to the topmost wave of prosperity. One of the most
striking portions of the story is that of Cinq Mar's
conspiracy; the method of conducting criminal cases, and the
political trickery resorted to by royal favorites, affording a
better insight into the statecraft of that day than can be had
even by an exhaustive study of history. It is a powerful
romance of love and diplomacy, and in point of thrilling and
absorbing interest has never been excelled.

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WINDSOR CASTLE. A Historical Romance of the Reign of Henry VIII.,
Catharine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. By Wm. Harrison Ainsworth. Cloth,
12mo. with four illustrations by George Cruikshank. Price, $1.00.

"Windsor Castle" is the story of Henry VIII., Catharine, and
Anne Boleyn. "Bluff King Hal," although a well-loved monarch,
was none too good a one in many ways. Of all his selfishness
and unwarrantable acts, none was more discreditable than his
divorce from Catharine, and his marriage to the beautiful Anne
Boleyn. The King's love was as brief as it was vehement. Jane
Seymour, waiting maid on the Queen, attracted him, and Anne
Boleyn was forced to the block to make room for her successor.
This romance is one of extreme interest to all readers.

HORSESHOE ROBINSON. A tale of the Tory Ascendency in South Carolina in
1780. By John P. Kennedy. Cloth, 12mo. with four illustrations by J.
Watson Davis. Price, $1.00.

Among the old favorites in the field of what is known as
historical fiction, there are none which appeal to a larger
number of Americans than Horseshoe Robinson, and this because
it is the only story which depicts with fidelity to the facts
the heroic efforts of the colonists in South Carolina to defend
their homes against the brutal oppression of the British under
such leaders as Cornwallis and Tarleton.

The reader is charmed with the story of love which forms the
thread of the tale, and then impressed with the wealth of
detail concerning those times. The picture of the manifold
sufferings of the people, i