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Scott." (Macmillan's English Men of Letters Series, 1878.)

The Essay on "The Waverley Novels," in Vol. II. of Walter Bagehot's "Literary Studies." (Longmans, 1879)

"A Descriptive Catalogue of Historical Novels and Tales. For the use of School Libraries and Teachers of History. Enlarged from the List in the 'Journal of Education,' March, 1882." Compiled and described by H. Courthope Bowen, M.A. (Edward Stanford, 1882.)

The section on "The Historical Novel," in Bayard Tuckerman's "History of English Prose Fiction." (Putnams, 1882.)

The Chapter on "Courses of Reading in History," in James Baldwin's "The Book Lover." (Putnams, 1886.)

The list of Historical Novels given in W. F. Allen's "The Reader's Guide to English History. With Supplement, extending the plan to other countries and periods." (Ginn & Co., 1888.)

[A useful, but very unequal list.]

The partially-selective list of Historical Novels in "A Guide Book to Books," by E. B. Sargant and B. Whishaw. (H. Frowde, 1891.)

The essay on "Sir Walter Scott," in Vol. I. of Leslie Stephen's "Hours in a Library." (Smith, Elder, & Co., 1892. New edition, with additions.)

[Mr. Leslie Stephen is one of the most formidable critics with whom the lover of Historical Romance has to deal. That which it is possible to say against such fiction is said more forcibly by him, perhaps, than by anyone else.]

The series of articles dealing with "History in Fiction," &c., by J. B. Carlile, in Great Thoughts, October, 1892, to March, 1894.

Article "The Historical Novel," by Prof. A. J. Church, in Atalanta for April, 1893.

The useful and partially-selective lists of Historical Tales given in "The Intermediate Textbook of English History," by C. S. Fearenside and A. Johnson Evans. (W. B. Clive, University Tutorial Press, Ltd., 1893, &c.).

The short selective list of Historical Tales given in the appendix to John Fiske's "History of the United States for Schools." (James Clarke & Co., 1894.)

Article on "The Historical Novel as illustrated by Sir Walter Scott," by Edwin Lester Arnold, in Atalanta for March, 1894.

The essay on "The Historical Novel" in W. P. James's "Romantic Professions and other papers." (Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894.)

[A re-print, in somewhat revised form, of the suggestive article appearing in Macmillan's Magazine, November, 1887.]