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"We are here presented with nineteen authentic narrations of female courage and devotedness, embodying facts of the most surpassing interest, related with admirable force and Mad. De Sombreuil. feeling. We have seldom met with a book containing so much deeply interesting reading in so small a compass."-Bath Chronicle. "A sort of female Plutarch. This elegant volume contains nineteen biographical sketches of women who have distinguished themselves by acts of heroism. The tales are beautifully written, abounding in wholesome sentiment, and the moral is pointed with good judgment, being implied rather than obtruded. The memoir of Lady Fanshawe is especially interesting; and all have, for the youthful reader, more than the attractions of romance. It is, indeed, the romance of reality."-Critic, Vol. II.-STORIES OF THE CRUSADES. 1. De Hellingley. 2. The Crusade of St. Louis; comprising a Historical View of the Period. With Frontispiece by Selous, and Two Plans. Cloth, 3s. 6d., half morocco, 5s. "History taught under the guise of fictionperhaps the most effective method of imparting its spirit and impressing its lessons upon the mind of the student. A good historical tale revives the past, and summons before the mind's eye the people as they lived, and moved, and talked, and the places as they were, and thus converts a memory into a fact, and a dream into a reality. It is only required that the writer of historical fiction should himself be imbued with the spirit of the time he portrays, and be intimately conversant with its manners and modes. He must be well-read, reflective, and imaginative; and these qualities must be so nicely balanced, that one must not be prominent above the rest. The rareness of good historical fiction results from the necessity for this combination of qualifications. The author of the tales before us possesses them in a greater degree than any writer whom we have read of late. 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