wer of London_, the story of
Lady Jane Grey, and the plots and intrigues that centered about
her.

ALCOTT, LOUISA M.: _Little Men_ and _Little Women_, two interesting
and thoroughly wholesome books for boys and girls.

AUSTEN, JANE: _Pride and Prejudice_, an old-fashioned story,
interesting, but liable to be called dull by those who read only
the lively stories of the day.

BLACKMORE, R. D.: _Lorna Doone_, a delightful romance, the scene of
which is laid in Exmoor, England, in the beginning of the
eighteenth century.

BULWER-LYTTON, SIR EDWARD: _The Last Days of Pompeii_, the author's
greatest novel; _The Last of the Barons_, the story of the Earl
of Warwick; _Harold, The Last of the Saxons_, a tale of the
Norman Conquest of England.

DOYLE, A. CONAN: _The White Company_, an exciting fourteenth
century story.

ELIOT, GEORGE: _Silas Marner_, an intensely human story, a heart
history; _Romola_, a thrilling story of Florence in the days of
Savonarola, a study in the degeneration of character that comes
from doing only the agreeable things in life.

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER: _The Vicar of Wakefield_, an amusing and at
times pathetic picture of English country life in the eighteenth
century.

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL: _The Scarlet Letter_, a tale of sin and its
punishment in Puritan New England; _The Marble Faun_, an Italian
story full of the art and culture of Rome.

HUGO, VICTOR: _Les Miserables_, one of the greatest novels of the
world, but its digressions and its philosophy make it difficult
reading for the young. Interesting abridgements of it may be had
from the schoolbook houses.

SAINT PIERRE, BERNARDIN DE: _Paul and Virginia_, a pretty love
story from the French.

SCOTT, SIR WALTER: _Kenilworth_, a tale of the days of Queen
Elizabeth; _Old Mortality_, a story of the Covenanters; _Guy
Mannering_, an eighteenth century tale, with Meg Merrilies,
Dominic Sampson and others of Scott's most famous characters;
_The Heart of Midlothian_, a tale of sin and its punishment,
with a wonderful picture of a sister's love and devotion.

STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER: _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, an interesting story,
but like most books written for partisan purpos