Ancient Rome in the English novel: a study in English historical fiction

Part 12

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*_Claudius_—Causton, Mrs. R. K.; Hatchards, London, (1878).

*_Blue and Green_—Pottinger, Sir Henry; Chapman, London, (1879).

_Ben Hur_—Wallace, Gen. Lew; Harper, N. Y., (1880).

_Neaera_—Graham, John W.; Macmillan, N. Y., (1886).

_The Son of a Star_—Richardson, B. W.; Longmans, N. Y., (1888).

_Masters of the World_—Hoppus, Mary A. M.; Bentley, (1888), (the date 1885 is probably incorrect).

*_A Queen Among Queens_—MacDowall, C. J. F. S.; Swan, London, (1889), (Zenobia).

_Cleopatra_—Haggard, Sir H. Rider; Longmans, N. Y., (1889).

_Pearl-Maiden_—Haggard, Sir H. Rider; Longmans, London, (1902).

*_Acte_—Westbury, Hugh, pseud., (Farrie, Hugh C.); Bentley, London, (1890).

_Barabbas_—Corelli, Marie; Lippincott, Philadelphia, (1893).

_The Sign of the Cross_—Barrett, Wilson; Lippincott, Philadelphia, (1897).

*_Pharos, the Egyptian_—Boothby, G.; Ward & Lock, London, (1899).

_The Lion’s Brood_—Osborne, Duffield; Doubleday, N. Y., (1901).

_She Stands Alone_—Ashton, Mark; L. C. Page & Co., Boston, (1901).

_Amor Victor_—Kenyon, Orr; Stokes, N. Y., (3rd ed., 1902).

_Vergilius, a Tale of the Coming of Christ_—Bacheller, Irving; Harper, N. Y., (1904).

_Lux Crucis, a Tale of the Great Apostle_—Gardenhire, S. M.; Harper, N. Y., (1904).

*_Marcus and Faustina_—Carrel, Frederic; J. Long, London, (1904).

*_Et tu, Sejane_—Twells, Miss J. H.; Coates, Philadelphia, (1904).

_Psyche_—Cramp, Walter S.; Little & Brown, Boston, (1905).

_An Heir to Empire_—Cramp, Walter S.; Richard C. Badger, The Gorham Press, Boston, (1913).

*_The Son of the Swordmaker_—Reed, Opie; Laird, Chicago, (1906).

_Under Pontius Pilate_—Schuyler, William; Funk & Wagnalls, N. Y., (1906).

_Saul of Tarsus_—Miller, Elizabeth; Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, (1906).

_The City of Delight, a Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem_—Miller, Elizabeth; Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, (1908).

*_The Senator Licinius_—Kelly, W. P.; Dutton, N. Y., (1909).

*_The Doomed City_—Carling, J. R.; Ward & Lock, London, (1910).

_The Fetters of Freedom_—Brady, Cyrus Townsend; Dodd, Mead & Co., N. Y., (1913).

_Unto Caesar_—Orczy, Baroness; Doran, N. Y., (1914).

_The Standard Bearer_—Whitehead, A. C.; American Book Co., N. Y., (1915).

_Behold the Woman_—Harré, T. Everett; Lippincott, Philadelphia, (1916).

_Princess Salome_—Jenkins, B. A.; Lippincott, Philadelphia, (1921).

_Revelation_—Deamer, Dulcie; Boni & Liveright, N. Y., (1922).

_Nabala_—Caskie, Jaquelin A.; J. B. Bell, Inc., Lynchburg, Va., (1922).

7. BOOKS FOR BOYS, INCLUDING MOST BOOKS ON ROMAN BRITAIN. (See p. 10 and p. 96.)

_Two Thousand Years Ago_—Church, Rev. A. J.; Dodd, Mead & Co., N. Y., (1885).

_The Count of the Saxon Shore_—Church, Rev. A. J.; Putnam, N. Y., (1887), (Britain).

_To the Lions_—Church, Rev. A. J.; Putnam, N. Y., (1889).

_The Burning of Rome_—Church, Rev. A. J.; (1892)—Macmillan, N. Y., 1902.

_Lords of the World_—Church, Rev. A. J.; Scribner, N. Y., (1898).

_The Crown of Pine_—Church, Rev. A. J.; Seely, London, (1905)—Scribners, N. Y., 1906.

*_No. XIII; or The Story of the Lost Vestal_—Marshall, E.; Cassell, London, (1885), (Britain).

_The Young Carthaginian_—Henty, G. A.; Burt, N. Y., (1886).

_For the Temple_—Henty, G. A.; Blackie, London, (1888).

_Beric, the Briton_—Henty, G. A.; Scribners, N. Y., (1892)—Scribners, N. Y., 1911, (Britain).

*_One Traveller Returns_—Murray, D. C., & Herman, H.; Chatto, London, (1887), (Britain).

_The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician_—Arnold, Edwin Lester; Burt, N. Y., (1890), (Britain).

_Lepidus the Centurion, a Roman of To-day_—Arnold, E. L.; Crowell, N. Y., (1901), (a Roman brought back to life in England).

*_Woe to the Conquered_—Clark, Alfred; Low, London, (1893).

*_A Duke of Britain_—Maxwell, Sir H. E.; Blackwood, (1895).

*_Aneroestes the Gaul_—Smith, E. M.; Unwin, London, (1899).

*_Britain’s Greatness Foretold_—“Trevelyan, Marie”; Hogg, London, (1900).

*_A Story of Ancient Wales_—Elrington, H.; Whittaker, N. Y., (1900).

*_Marcus, the Young Centurion_—Fenn, G. M.; Nister, London, (1904).

_A Daughter of the Druids_—Sedgwick, S. N.; Stockwell, (1904), (Britain).

*_At Sunrise_—Spurell, Herbert; Greening, London, (1904), (Britain).

_Nikanor, Teller of Tales_—Taylor, C. B.; McClurg, Chicago, (1906), (Britain).

_Under the Roman Eagles_—“Sagon, Amyot”; Partridge, London, (1907).

_The Meeting of the Ways_—Baxter, J. D.; Greening, London, (1908), (Britain).

_Durobrivae; Roman Rochester_—Harris, E.; Harris, Rochester, (1909).

*_Boudicca_—Ward, C. H. D.; Ousely, London, (1912), (Britain).

8. STORIES OF RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION. (See p. 39 and p. 53.)

Explanation of Abbreviations:

R. T. S.—Religious Tract Society, London.

S. P. C. K.—Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London.

_Naomi: or the Last Days of Jerusalem_—Webb, Mrs. J. B. Peploe; Routledge, London, (1841), (date 1840 is probably incorrect).

_Julamerk: a Tale of the Nestorians_—Webb, J. B. P.; Ward & Lock, London, (1848).

_The Martyrs of Carthage_—Webb, J. B. P.; Ward & Lock, London, (1850).

_Alypius of Tagaste_—Webb, J. B. P.; R. T. S., (Revell, N. Y.), (1865).

*_Pomponia; the Gospel in Caesar’s Household_—Webb, J. B. P.; Pres. Pub. Co., Philadelphia, (1867).

*_Evadne: or An Empire in Its Fall_—Rowcroft, C.; Boone, London, (1850).

_The Egyptian Wanderers_—Neale, Rev. John Mason; S. P. C. K., (1854).

*_The Farm of Aptonga_—Neale, J. M.; Parker, London, (1856)—S. P. C. K., 1918.

*_The Exiles of the Cebenna_—Neale, J. M., (pseud. Aurelius Gratianus); Parker, London, (1859)—S. P. C. K., 1918.

_The Quay of the Dioscuri_—Neale, J. M.; S. P. C. K., (1917).

_The Lions of Wady-Arabia_—Neale, J. M.; S. P. C. K., (1917).

_The Prince of the House of David; or Three Years in the Holy City_—Ingraham, Rev. J. H.; (1855)—Roberts, Boston, (1895).

*_Adonijah; the Jewish Dispersion_—Strickland, Jane M.; Simpkin, London, (1856).

*_Parthenia, or the Last Days of Paganism_—Lee, Mrs. E. B.; Routledge, London, (1858).

_Caecilia Metella, or Rome Enslaved_—“Julia, Aemilia,” (Emily Julia Black); Chapman, London, (1859).

_Claudia and Pudens: Early Christians in Gloucester_—Lysons, S.; Hamilton, London, (1861).

*_The Villa of Claudius_—Cutts, Rev. E. L.; S. P. C. K., (1861).

_Martyrs of Spain_—Charles, Mrs. Elizabeth Rundle; S. P. C. K., (1862).

_The Victory of the Vanquished_—Charles, E. R.; Dodd, Mead & Co., N. Y., (1871).

_Conquering and to Conquer_—Charles, E. R.; S. P. C. K., (1876)—Dodd, Mead & Co., N. Y., (1876).

_Lapsed, But Not Lost_—Charles, E. R.; S. P. C. K., (1877)—Dodd, Mead & Co., N. Y., (1879).

_Attila, and His Conquerors_—Charles, E. R.; S. P. C. K., (1894).

*_Life in Judea; or Glimpses of the First Christian Age_—Richards, Maria T.; Simpkin, London, (1862).

*_Victor, a Tale of the Great Persecution_—Perry, G. G.; S. P. C. K., London, (1864).

*_Vestina’s Martyrdom_—Pitman, Emma R.; Hodder, London, (1869).

_Claudia_—Tucker, Charlotte; Nelson, London, (1869).

_Freedom, a Tale of the Early Christians_—Tucker, C.; R. T. S., (1871).

_Daybreak in Britain_—Tucker, C., (pseud. A. L. O. E.); R. T. S., (1880).

_Stars in a Stormy Night, or Light from the Catacombs_—“E. L. M.”; Nelson, London, (1870).

_Æmilius: Decian and Valerian Persecutions_—Crake, Rev. A. D.; Mowbray, London, (1871).

_Evanus; Constantine the Great_—Crake, A. D.; Mowbray, London, (1872).

_The Camp on the Severn_—Crake, A. D.; Mowbray, London, (1875)—The Vatican Library, N. Y., 1891.

_The Victor’s Laurel_—Crake, A. D.; Mowbray, London, (1885)—The Vatican Library, N. Y., 1889.

*_The Standard Bearer_—Palmer, Ellen; Hamilton, Edinburgh, (1871).

*_Nonna: A Story of the Days of Julian the Apostate_—Palmer, Ellen; Hamilton, Edinburgh, (1872).

_Marcella of Rome_, (also called _The Fearless Christian Maiden_)—Knevels, Mrs. C. D., (pseud. Eastwood, Frances); Shaw, London, (1872).

*_Adah, the Jewish Maiden_—Gray, Agnes M.; Hamilton, Edinburgh, (1872).

*_Cyllene_—Sneyd, Henry; Longmans, London, (1873).

*_Epiphanius_—Mossman, T. W.; Hayes, London, (1874).

_Gaudentius_—Davies, Rev. G. S.; S. P. C. K., (1874).

_Julian’s Dream_—Davies, G. S.; S. P. C. K., (1875).

_St. Paul in Greece_—Davies, G. S., n. d.

_Glaucia: the Greek Slave_—Leslie, Emma; Nelson and Phillips, N. Y., (1874)—R. T. S., 1904.

_Quadratus, a Tale of the World in the Church_—Leslie, E.; Phillips and Hunt, Cincinnati, (1875).

_Sowing Beside All Waters, a Tale of the Early Church_—Leslie, E.; R. T. S., n. d. (This is merely _Quadratus_ rewritten.)

_Flavia_—Leslie, E.; Nelson and Phillips, N. Y., (1875), later published under the title of

_Out of the Mouth of the Lion; or the Church in the Catacombs_—Leslie, E.; Bradley, Boston, (1880), (also pub. anon.).

_On the Emperor’s Service_—Leslie, E.; R. T. S., (1904).

*_Edol the Druid_—Kingston, W. H. G.; Partridge, London, (1874).

*_Jovinian; Early Days of Papal Rome_—Kingston, W. H. G.; Hamilton, London, (1877).

_Zipporah, the Jewish Maiden_—Brewsher, Mrs. M. E.; London, (1875).

_Philochristus_—Abbott, Rev. Edwin A.; Macmillan, N. Y., (1878).

_Onesimus, Christ’s Freedman: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul_—Abbott, E. A.; Revell, N. Y., (1882)—(Repub. Corwin, C. E., ed.)

_Silanus the Christian_—Abbott, E. A.; Macmillan, N. Y., (1906).

*_Narcissus_—Carpenter, Rev. W. Boyd; S. P. C. K., (Young, N. Y.), (1879).

*_Dio the Athenian_—Burr, E. F.; Methodist Bk., N. Y., (1880).

*_Aleph the Chaldean; the Messiah as Seen from Alexandria_—Burr, E. F.; Ketcham, N. Y., (1891).

*_Fabius, the Roman_—Burr, E. F.; Baker, N. Y., n. d.

_The Wards of Plotinus_—Hunt, Mrs. John; Strahan, London, (1881).

*_Valeria, or the Martyr of the Catacombs_—Witherow, W. H.; Woolmer, London, (1883).

_Dorcas, the Daughter of Faustina_—Kouns, Nathan C.; Fords, N. Y., (1884).

_Arius the Libyan: an Idyl of the Primitive Church_—Kouns, N. C.; Appleton, N. Y., (1884).

*_From Crown to Crown; a Tale of the Early Church_—Anon.; Hatchards, London, (1885).

*_By the King and Queen_—Mercier, Mrs. Jerome; Rivington, London, (1886).

*_The Slave Girl of Pompeii_—Holt, Emily S.; Shaw, London, (1886).

*_Flora, the Roman Martyr_—Anon.; Burns & Oates, London, (1886)—Benziger, N. Y., 1887.

_Leah of Jerusalem_—Berry, E. P.; Randolph & Co., (1890).

*_Philip_—Cutler, Mary C.; Nelson, London, (1890).

_A Son of Isaachar_—Brooks, S.; Putnam, N. Y., (1890).

_Come Forth_—Ward, Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps; (1890), (story of Lazarus).

_The Doom of the Holy City_—Farmer, Lydia H.; Randolph, N. Y., (1895).

_Titus, A Comrade of the Cross_—Kingsley, Florence M.; D. C. Cook, Chicago, (1895).

_Stephen, a Soldier of the Cross_—Kingsley, F. M.; Henry Altemus, Philadelphia, (1896).

_Paul, a Herald of the Cross_—Kingsley, F. M.; Altemus, Philadelphia, (1897).

_The Cross Triumphant_—Kingsley, F. M.; Ward & Lock, London, (1900).

_Tor, a Street Boy of Jerusalem_—Kingsley, F. M.; D. C. Cook, Chicago, (1905).

_Veronica_—Kingsley, F. M.; Appleton, N. Y., (1913).

_The Story of the Other Wise Man_—VanDyke, Henry J.; Harper, N. Y., (1895)—Harper, N. Y., 1907.

_Antipas, Son of Chusa, and Others Whom Jesus Loved_—Houghton, Louise S.; Randolph, N. Y., (1896).

_John, a Tale of King Messiah_—Woods, Katherine P.; Dodd, Mead & Co., N. Y., (1896).

_The Son of Ingar_—Woods, Katherine P.; Dodd, Mead & Co., N. Y., (1897).

_From Dusk to Dawn_—Woods, K. P.; Appleton, N. Y., (1899).

*_Victor Serenus_—Wood, Henry; Gay & Bird, London, (1898).

_The Victory that Overcometh_—Gee, Annie L.; S. P. C. K., (1898).

_The Minister of Carthage_—Mason, Caroline Atwater; Doubleday, Garden City, N. Y., (1899).

_The White Shield_—Mason, C. A.; Griffith & Rowland, Philadelphia, (1904).

_Paul of Tarsus_—Bird, Robert; Nelson, London, (1900).

_Lucius Flavus_—Spillman, Rev. Joseph; Kilner, Philadelphia, (1900).

_Diomede the Centurion_—Henderson, Rev. H. A.; Methodist Bk., N. Y., (1902).

*_Adnah_—Ellis, J. Breckenridge; R. T. S., (1902).

*_Sancta Paula_—Perry, W. C.; Sonnenschein, London, (1902).

_Bethsaida_—Dearborn, Malcolm; Dillingham, N. Y., (1902).

*_In Holiest Troth_—Fidelis, Sister Mary; Burns & Oates, London, (1903).

*_A Hero in Wolf-skin_—Bevan, Tom; R. T. S., (1904).

*_The Court of Pilate_—Hobbs, Roe R.; Fenno, N. Y., (1906).

*_The Story of a Child That Jesus Took_—Smyth, S. P. N.; Pilgrim Press, Boston, (1907).

*_Nizra_—Klarman, Andrew; Fred. Pustet & Co., (1908).

*_Leo of Mediolanum_—Hollis, Gertrude; S. P. C. K., (1909).

*_For Queen and Emperor_—Protheroe, Ernest; R. T. S., (1909).

*_The Forgotten Door_—Cowper, Frank; S. P. C. K., (1909).

_Mary of Magdala_—Roberson, Mrs. H. G.; Saalfield, Akron, O., (1909).

_Mary of Magdala_—Saltus, Edgar; Greening, London, (1909).

*_The Testament of Judas_—Byatt, H.; Long, London, (1909).

_Prisca of Patmos_—McCook, Rev. Henry C.; The Westminster Press, Philadelphia, (1911).

*_Faustula_—“Ayscough, John”, (Francis Browning Drew); Chatto, London, (Kilner, Philadelphia), (1912).

_The Story of Phaedrus; How We Got the Greatest Book in the World_—Hillis, Rev. Newell Dwight; Macmillan, N. Y., (1914).

_The Coming of the King_—Babcock, Bernie; Bobbs Merrill Co., Indianapolis, (1921).

_Simon of Cyrene_—Shastid, Thomas Hall; Wahr, Ann Arbor, Michigan, (1923).

9. BOOKS LISTED AS NOVELS OF ROMAN LIFE. (Date of Publication Uncertain.)

1st Century.

*_Iola, the Senator’s Daughter_—Hillhouse, N. L.

*_Julia of Baiae_—Brown, J. W.; n. d., (possibly a forgery from Ellen Pickering’s novel of the same title).

_Philo, Life in the First Century_—Hamilton, J.

*_Unlaid Ghost: a Study in Metempsychosis_—Anon.

*_Vergilia_—Grey, G.

2nd Century.

*_Letters from Rome_—Wace, Eustace.

*_Marius Flaminius; the Days of Hadrian_—Anon.

3rd Century.

*_The Theban Legion_—Blackburn, E. M.

10. RELIGIOUS STORIES. (Date of Publication Uncertain.)

a. Those with Scene near Rome.

1st Century.

*_Mina: The Days of Nero and the Early Christians_—Ross, Andrew.

_Neither Rome nor Judea_—Hoven, E.

2nd Century.

*_The Child Martyr and Early Christians in Rome_—Anon.

*_Three Roman Girls_—Bamford, M. E.; American Baptist Pub. Co.

*_The Three Berenices_—Bright, Mrs. A. M.

_The Captive Maiden_—Anon.

4th Century.

_The Last Battle of the Gods_—Kelly, F. C.; Philadelphia.

b. Those with Scene in Africa.

_African Fabiola, or The Church of Carthage in the Days of Tertullian_—Clarke, A. C.

_Fabiola’s Sisters, a Companion to Fabiola_—Clarke, A. C.

*_Deodatus; or Martyr of Carthage_—Williams, E.

*_Our Little Carthaginian Cousin_—Winslow, Clara V.

*_Vandal, or Half a Christian_—Luby, William J.

c. Those with Scene in Asia.

_Andros of Ephesus_—Copus, Rev. J. E.

_The Son of Siro_—Copus, Rev. J. E.; Benziger, N. Y.

*_Aslane: Manners of the Nestorian Christians_—Anon.

_The Fall of Palmyra, Rome, and the Early Christians_—Anon.

*_The Fall of Damascus_—Russell, C. W.

d. Those with Scene in Palestine.

1st Century.

_Judea Capta_—Toner, C. E.

*_The Jews’ Tragedy_—Heming.

*_Zerah, the Believing Jew_—Anon.

After 1st Century.

_Abdiel; a Tale of the Early Christians_—Anon.

e. Those with Scene in Britain.

*_Mona the Vestal_—Dorsey, Anna H.; Lippincott, Philadelphia, c. 1850.

*_The Alleluia Battle, or Pelagianism in Britain_—Anon.

*_The Druidess_—Anon.