exceptional facilities for gathering material
concerning the individual members of the
settlements in and about St. Mary's, is a most
valuable addition to the history of the State.

The story is full of splendid action, with a
charming love story, and a plot that never loosens
the grip of its interest to its last page.

=BY BERWEN BANKS.= By Allen Raine.

It is a tender and beautiful romance of the
idyllic. A charming picture of life in a Welsh
seaside village. It is something of a prose-poem,
true, tender and graceful.

=IN DEFIANCE OF THE KING.= A romance of the American Revolution. By
Chauncey C. Hotchkiss. Cloth, 12mo. with four illustrations by J. Watson
Davis. Price, $1.00.

The story opens in the month of April, 1775, with
the provincial troops hurrying to the defense of
Lexington and Concord. Mr. Hotchkiss has etched in
burning words a story of Yankee bravery and true
love that thrills from beginning to end with the
spirit of the Revolution. The heart beats quickly,
and we feel ourselves taking a part in the
exciting scenes described. You lay the book aside
with the feeling that you have seen a gloriously
true picture of the Revolution. His whole story is
so absorbing that you will sit up far into the
night to finish it. As a love romance it is
charming.

=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.

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 of every reader.

There is really but little pure romance in this
story, for the author has taken care to imagine
love passages only between those whom history has