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READING DIARY
CONTAINING A
REPRESENTATIVE LIST OF THE NOVELS
OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, PRE-
CEDED BY SUGGESTIVE REMARKS
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“The Taste for Reading must begin with Fiction.”
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE.
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Copyright, 1881.
BY F. LEYPOLDT.
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Press of Rockwell and churchiu, 80 Arch Street, Boston.
PREFATORY NOTICE.
The main object of this “Reading Diary '' is
to present a survey of all that is considered worth
reading in the domain of modern fiction, and
thus to make easy a daily record of what has
been read, and what to read next, with a view to
comparing notes and a mutual exchange of recom-
mendations among congenial friends.
Such record will prove a source of pleasure and
instruction, growing in interest with every day,
provided it is kept regularly and conscientiously.
It will also, in later years, give food for reflection
as a chronicle of the various phases of the literary
taste of the day, as well as of the development of
one's judgment. Even if no more is done than
the simple checking off of books read, the list
will aid in mapping out a more methodical read-
ing, and in the choice of books at the library or
the bookstore. But how the record can be made
of lasting value, and be drawn upon for daily
conversation and for advice to others in the choice
of books, is made clear below.
Should this little guide meet with sufficient ap-
preciation, it will be immediately followed by sev-
4 Prefatory Motice.
eral others. The material is collected for a Read-
ing Diary for boys, for one for girls, and for one
for the student. The latter is to present an anno-
tated list of the best works in general literature
and popular science, for more serious reading
and study. Suggestions and recommendations of
tested books are respectfully solicited.
F. LEYPOLDT.
NEw York, October 1, 1881.
C O N T E N T S .
PAGE
HINTS FOR THE USE OF THE READING
DIARY . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
THE VALUE OF KEEPING A RECORD . . . 7
ON THE SELECTION OF NOVELS . . . .
FICTION IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES . . . . . I2
GUIDES FOR THE READING OF FICTION . . I4
A READING COURSE OF FICTION . . . . 17
ON THE READING of Novels . . . . . I9
A FEW POPULAR NOVELISTS OF THE DAY. . 2 I
SYMPOSIUM ON NOVEL READING . . . . 28
LIST OF NoveLs (READING DIARY) . . . 36
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Hints for the Use of the Diary.
I. Go over the list, carefully marking with a
cross (thus, X), in front of and close to the title,
every book you have read, and, if still remembered,
indicate in second blank column (under Merit)
how you judge the book. This can be done by
any such method as the use of brief qualifying
terms, viz.: fair, good, pure, Sound, poor, crude,
morbid, indifferent, etc.; or the use of figures, tak-
ing O for dislike, and I, 2, 3, etc., for the degree of
estimation; or any similar device. Whatever no-
tations or abbreviations may be used, however,
a key to them should be made on the front or
back pages of the book. *
2. Go over the list a second time, marking
with check (thus, / ), also in front of the title,
any book you think you may read subsequently.
The check should be crossed (as above, X) as
soon as the book is read. Thus at a glance you
can see what books to read next.
3. Pass the list around among your friends,
whose judgment you can trust or wish to test,
with the request to check in the same manner
(with check / only) any books they can safely
recommend, and to place their initials in first
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blank column (under Sug'd by) against each book
recommended. In similar manner check-books
you decide to read through the recommendation
of book-reviews, placing name of paper or maga-,
zine in first column. .
4. New and other books, read or recommended,
should be entered on the blank pages, in accord-
ance with the system of the list, viz.: in alphabet-
ical position by author. The alphabetical entry
facilitates prompt reference and may further serve
as an index to memoranda, as indicated below.
5. Another mark may be adopted for the indi-
cation of books owned. The most conspicuous
would be an underscoring of the title.
A eep a Record.
Our best authorities in literary culture strongly
recommend the keeping of a record of what is
read. Mr. Atkinson, in his admirable little book
“On the Right Use of Books,” says: —
I cannot close without giving you one solid
little piece of purely practical advice, tº gº
“When found make a note of it.” Witty old
Thomas Fuller says: “Adventure not all thy learn-
ing in one bottom, but divide it between thy mem-
ory and thy note-book. . . . A commonplace
book contains many notions in garrison, whence
an owner may draw out an army into the field on
competent warning !” The great secret of reading
8 A'eep a Record.
consists in this, that it does not matter so much
what we read or how we read it, as what we think
and how we think it. . . . And it requires a
method. I have myself a sort of literary book-
keeping. I keep a day-book, and at my leisure
I post my literary accounts, bringing together in
proper groups the fruits of much casual reading.
James Freeman Clarke, in his excellent lectures
on self-culture, remarks that “a person might at
least have a note-book, and write down the heads
of what he reads and his own thoughts about it.
To these notes he could afterwards refer with
pleasure and advantage.” The same advice is
given in the practical “Suggestions for the Use
of Pupils,” printed for the use of the Providence
Public Library: —
It will be a useful practice for you to enter in
a note-book, from time to time, such facts or
memoranda as you consider of special value to
you. The very act of writing will tend to fix them
in your memory, even though you should never
look at the memoranda again. Life is too short
to read many books through but once, but you
will occasionally find a book which so impresses
you that you wish to go through it a second time.
You will be surprised to find not only how your
interest is almost doubled in the second reading,
but how the two views you have obtained of the
book, supplementing each other, have served to
ſix an image of its main ideas in your mind.
To those who will profit by these suggestions
Concerning the Selection. 9
this Diary will serve as a good starting-point which
may then be used simply as a check list and an index
to the notes. Whether the notes are made on sepa-
rate sheets or in a blank-book, all that is required
is to number or page them, and to enter the num-
ber or page in front of the first blank column, or
in either of the two columns, should they not be
used otherwise.
In such a blank-book or literary record may be
noted any point of interest relating to the book
read, for instance: date when or where read,
under what circumstances, in connection with what
event, by whom and to whom recommended, what
other books it suggested, what you, or your friends,
or the press, or some noted author, think about
it, etc., etc.
Concerning the Selection.
“Probably no two people would agree in their
favorite hundred,” says Mr. F. B. Perkins, in his
prefatory remarks to his list of the “Best Hun-
dred Novels,” published in the Library journal,
1877. This remark, in a measure, applies to the
selection of a thousand. While, in so full a list
as the one presented here, it is not likely that any
one will miss his favorite novels, it is certain that
almost every one will find others which, according
to his taste or opinion, are not “worth reading.”
IO Concerning the Selection.
There is no other department of literature, nay,
scarcely any other subject, on which tastes and
opinions differ so widely, and which is so con-
stantly subject to modifications under the surround-
ing influence of the day, as is fiction. So much
so, indeed, that the same person would not be likely
to choose the same books at different periods of his
life.
If, then, a selection on which every one could
agree is impossible, the next practicable thing is a
list which is so representative that, for every book
given, a number of persons could be found that
would agree on its choice; so full, as to provide
for the most liberal as well as the most cautious
reader; so select, as to include no books that could
not find appreciative readers of the better class,
and all the books on which the most competent to
judge could agree.
The list presented is, indeed, not a selection
made by the judgment of one, but the combined
result of careful consultation of such authorities
as, for the further guidance of studious readers,
are given below. In addition, a number of
experienced readers were personally consulted.
There is scarcely a single book given which has
not been recommended by some trustworthy au-
thority.
Concerning the Selection. II
It is in accordance with the practical plan of
this Diary, which, for a certain time, is to serve as
reading companion, to make more allowance for
the authors of to-day than for those who have
“had their day; ” while none of the past, that has
stood the test of time, even if little read, is ex-
cluded. It is the demands of the day which must
explain that our contemporary authors are com-
paratively represented by a greater number of
ephemeral works than the writers of older repute,
who are represented by only those works to which
they owe their first reputation, or which still have
a claim on literature. A similar allowance has
been made in favor of writers whose names have
become “household words: ” their works are
more fully given, while of the realistic and “indis-
crete” school simply its representative works are
given. As in this direction the line was to be
drawn somewhere it was drawn at Zola.
In defence of the admission of some authors
and works, that by some may be found objec-
tionable on the ground of morality, the article
“Fiction in Public Libraries,” printed from the
Ziterary World, takes precisely the ground which
has been taken in compiling this list. Anxious
mothers, who wish to guide the choice of books for
their daughters, may, however, take warning from
the question at issue, and make it a point first to
I 2 Fiction in Public Libraries.
examine the books of such authors as are named
in the report (to which should be added those of
George Lawrence and “Ouida”), or consult with a
librarian, before allowing them to be read.
Suggestions, and reports of omissions of im-
portance, are respectfully solicited for a revised
edition of the List, should such become necessary.
FICTION IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
From The Literary World, Aug. 27, 1881.
A passing discussion of this subject gives more
than passing importance to the 29th Annual Ā’e-
port of the Boston Public Library, just issued.
The Boston Public Library, including its branches,
is now the largest collection of books on the
American continent, aggregating 39 I,338 volumes;
and its position, and the intelligence of its admin-
istration, help to make it the typical public library
of the country. Its experience in the distribution
of fiction may therefore be taken as the text for
remarks of a general application. Upon this sub-
ject five out of the seven trustees, including the
Rev. James Freeman Clarke, unite in saying: —
“The trustees have recently been charged with
wilfully or ignorantly consenting to the circula-
tion of immoral literature. The only definition
which the author of the charge gives of his mean-
ing is by referring to books written by such writers
as Rhoda Broughton, Annie Thomas, Mrs. Ross
Church (Florence Marryat), Mrs. Annie Edwardes,
Helen Mathers, Mrs. Forrester, Edmund Yates,
Jessie Fothergill, J. P. Story, Edgar Fawcett, and
Fiction in Public Libraries. I3
Mrs. C. F. Corbin. It is obviously impossible,
as it would be highly improper, for the trustees to
exclude such authors as these, whose works are
read in every circle of society, and which the pub-
lic, who are taxed to support the institution, de-
mand. While they carefully exclude from circu-
lation, especially among the young, all books of
an immoral influence, they do not consider them-
selves in the position of parents or guardians to
the community, bound to select for it only such
books as suit their own tastes. The argument of
Milton, in his Areopagitica, against a censorship
of books, largely applies to the present question.
He opposes the prohibition of books which might
possibly be injurious, on the ground that it is not
the intention of the Almighty to place us in a
world from which all temptation is excluded. Any
standard of taste that would deprive the public
library of such books as %ane Eyre, Adam Bede,
and the Scarlet Letter, would not satisfy the just
demands of the community. Every reader of
English literature will require copies of the works
of Fielding, Smollett, Swift, Richardson, and other
classic authors of like character, as a necessary
portion of a general library; but their use in this
institution is limited to those of mature years. No
volume of fiction that represented a world of fair
weather and blue skies, with no sickness or suffer-
ing, with no vice or crime, could give any faithful
picture of life. The immoral work represents vice
and crime in attractive colors, with highly-wrought
details, calculated to inflame the imagination and
distort the judgment of the reader; while fiction
that paints the fatal consequences of error and
wickedness, with the concomitant suffering and
I4 Fiction in Public / 767-aries.
distress, while painful in perusal, leaves no moral
stain on the mind of either youth or age.”
With the general sentiment expressed in these
words, both in its spirit and letter, all wise and
candid persons must agree. Fiction is not to be
prohibited, but used temperately. It is the busi-
ness of a public library to promote this temperance.
The public school begins the work of popular edu-
cation by teaching the young how to read. The
public library takes up the work where the school
leaves off, and goes on, first, to encourage the
young to form a habit of reading; and, second, to
train and improve the reader's taste. It would be
just as rational to abolish the printing-press be-
cause it is the instrument of obscene literature,
as to banish fiction because some novels are bad.
As for the novels of Rhoda Broughton, Annie
Thomas, Mrs. Annie Edwardes, Florence Marryat,
Mrs. Forrester, Jessie Fothergill, and Edgar Faw-
cett, we wish no worse reading ever got into the
hands of the public. What has Mr. Fawcett
written, we are led to wonder, which should put
him in with a group of questionable novelists?
Mrs. Forrester is questionable, we admit; Mrs.
Corbin has created a difference of opinion; but
as long as no more harmful pages fall into the
hands of our young people than those of the
authors above mentioned, we think the guardians
of public morals may thank God and take courage.
Guides for the Reading of Fiction.
Among the sources of information consulted in
the compilation of the list, the following are given
for further guidance: — .
Guides for the Reading of Fiction. I5
Abbott, L., and others. Hints for Home Reading,
with priced lists of suggested selections of 500, I,000, and
2,000 volumes. N.Y., ISSO.
Jeaffreson, J. C. Novels and Novelists. London, 1858.
Masson, David. British Novelists, and their Styles.
Boston, 1859.
Moore, C. H. What to Read, and How to Read.
N.Y., 1871.
Perkins, F. B. Best Reading. N.Y., 1877. Also its
quarterly supplements: Putnam's Library Companion,
(compiled since 1881 at the office of the Literary News).
Petit, A. E. How to Read; with Classified Lists of
Works. N.Y., 187S.
Porter, Noah. . Books and Reading. N.Y., 1876. (A
new revised edition is in press.)
Van Rhyn, G. A. F. What and How to Read. N.Y.,
875.
What Shall I Read? N.Y., 1879.
In addition to the above have been consulted
the Boston Public Library Class List of Fiction,
containing valuable notes for readers, and a
chronological index to historical fiction; the an-
notated catalogues of the Quincy and Roxbury
Public Libraries; the annotated List of Additions
issued by the Boston Athenaeum; the Bulletin of
New Books recommended by the R.I. State
Board of Education; the various articles on the
fiction question, Mr. Perkins’ “Best Hundred
Novels,” and the Purchase Lists in the Library
journal; the prize questions on novels in the Pub-
lishers' Weekly, the regular lists, the numerous
reading courses, and the prize questions on the
best books of the month, in the Literary Aews,
the select lists in the Literary World; Chambers’
I6 Guides for the Reading of Fiction.
Cyclopedia of English Literature, and a number
of the briefer manuals of literature, among which,
within small compass, Stopford Brooke's “Litera-
ture Primer,” C. F. Richardson’s “Primer of
American Literature,” and Lawrence's English
Literature Primers were found the most useful;
also the admirable chapters on English literature
in Justin McCarthy’s “History of our own
Times.”
To keep posted on the novel of the day, the
handiest medium of information is the Literary
Mews, a monthly journal of current literature, pub-
lished at the low price of 50 cents per year. It
not only gives representative lists of the new books
in all departments of literature, but also the opin-
ions of the representative journals on the leading
books of the month, with special attention to
fiction. It also gives, in its prize questions on the
best books of the month, a continuous criterion of
the reigning taste of the day. It will prove of
great benefit to those readers who would not read
any book without the recommendation of some
trustworthy authority, and it will be found spe-
cially useful by those who wish to get into the
habit of making notes on books read and to be
read, and who are fond of making literature a
favorite topic of their conversation.
A Course of Fiction. 17
A COURSE OF FICTION.
From the American journal of Education.
Apropos of courses of reading, the following
extract from a letter by Prof. W. H. Wynn,
of the State Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa,
will meet the needs of many of our readers: —
If your desire is to become a good critic of fic-
tion, then I would say your best course would be
to take Taine as a guide — the unabridged edition.
And now I will suggest how to use it. Passing
over the first volume entirely, and so much of the
second as will bring you to Book IV., chapter
headed “Modern Life,” begin there, read care-
fully the five chapters of that book without tefer-
ring much to authors, unless you choose. Before,
however, you enter on Book V., it will be neces-
sary to read, or have read, the masterpieces of
Dickens' novels, e.g., “David Copperfield,” “Mar-
tin Chuzzlewit,” “Dombey & Son,” “Hard Times”;
indeed, all of Dickens if you are so disposed, as
he has not had his equal as a story-teller in the
English language, and will, probably, not soon
have. Then read carefully, Chapter xviii. of
Book V., which is Taine's masterly critique on
Dickens. The second chapter of Book V. will
introduce you to a like process with Thackeray:
“Pendennis,” “Vanity Fair,” “The Newcomes,”
“The Book of Snobs,” “Esmond,” are those
chiefly dwelt on by the author; but it would not
be amiss, if you find time, to read all his works,
and then read and re-read Taine's chapter on
Thackeray. In this way you will get the diverg-
ing lines of the two great schools of fiction, the
I8 A Course of Fiction.
ideal and the realistic. After this work is done,
you might drop Taine and read the masterpieces
of George Eliot: “Adam Bede,” “Felix Holt,”
“Middlemarch,” “Romola,” “Daniel Deronda,”
etc., and then read Hutton's critique on her in his
“Essays on Criticism,” and Justin McCarthy's ar-
ticle on her in his “ Modern Leaders.” Then,
having finished this work, lying immediately about
our own times, I would go back to the “Waverley
Novels,” as a never-failing source of the highest
fiction. You will have already grown familiar
with Taine's estimate of Scott in his chapter on
“ Modern Life.” The field of fiction is too vast
to think of giving it more than a general survey,
and critically mastering anything more than the
grand diverging lines with their representatives;
but this will be a solid achievement, and will réad-
ily make one so furnished an umpire in the cur-
rent small-talk and literary gossip in which the
omnivorous readers of novels usually indulge.
Falling upon any other standard novels, and wish-
ing to know the critical estimate of them, go to
the “Catalogue of the Quincy Library,” in which
the rank of the novelist is indicated, in short, con-
densed notes, which are trustworthy, being the re-
sult of wide reading in the authors, and the
general sentiment of critics concerning them.
From the Christian at Work.
The best rule we know of is to begin with the
very best works, those which have a known char.
acter and are unquestionably elevating. And
when the habit of reading such books as those of
Scott, Mrs. Austen, Mrs. Gaskell, Dickens, Char-
lotte Brontë, Mrs. Craik, Hawthorne, and Mrs.
The Reading of Movels. I9
Stowe has once been formed, the poor trash of
sensational fiction-mongers will be shunned as
nauseating. The sooner children acquire a taste
for the best fiction, they will be proof against what
is vicious and enervating.
THE READING OF NovELs.
From The Literary Wews, May, 1877.
Quite a sensation was created in the Conference
of Librarians at Philadelphia, last summer, by the
statement of Mr. Kite, the librarian of the Friends'
Library at Germantown, that he HAD NEVER READ
A NOVEL. In our time such a statement seems
almost incredible. In former years, when novels
were first written and generally treated only of
impossible heroes and inconceivable heroines, vis-
ited with most improbable afflictions, and bearing
their woes in a wholly unnatural spirit of resigna-
tion or of unmitigated fiendishness, it certainly
was rather a good thing, especially if one were
young or of the weaker sex, never to have read a
novel. But since almost every question of the
day, and even many principles of science, have
been most successfully treated by our great novel-
ists, it almost raises the presumption of narrow-
mindedness never to have tried to find by personal
experience the rights and wrongs of novel-reading.
The leading novels of our day give true pictures
of life and society. George Eliot's books are
equal to any moral philosophy in their keen
analysis of character and motives of action;
Wilkie Collins’ might almost be used as a lawyer's
hand-book; Charles Reade might instruct many
a statesman in social reforms, the rights of the
2O The Reading of Movel.
working-classes, the defects and merits of institu-
tions; Miss Muloch has taught the highest lessons
of true wifely devotion, love of home and children,
pure affection, and high aims of life; Bulwer has
made history delightful and inspired artistic
thoughts and feelings in all his spell-bound read-
ers; Black and Blackmore and Hardy have
reached almost the perfection of word-painting,
and given us pictures of scenery and country man-
ners that might suggest the most charming of
paintings; Trollope has described English society
until we could hardly meet any one in England
for whom we might not find a prototype in his
books, even to the scullery-maids. Thackeray and
Dickens have become endeared to us all, and what
good have they not done in their exposition of the
shams and frauds of society by the power of their
keen sarcasm, kindly humor, and healthy realism
A well-educated person who pretends to mix
with cultivated people must read novels. They
teach quickness of thought, fluency of expression,
knowledge of life, interest in our fellow-men, and
a lenient judgment of the failings and foibles of
humanity. If novels are read in the right spirit,
they are sure to lead to more solid reading and
inspire a love of knowledge for its own sake.
Who can lay down Rienzi without wishing to take
up a volume of Italian history, or Harold without
wishing for some solid facts about that interesting
epoch of English history? Who can read Daniel
Deronda without becoming interested in Jewish
history, or Romola without trying to learn more
of Savonarola, or Felix //olt without making him-
self better acquainted with the English system of
voting and elections? Who thoroughly appre-
A Few Popular Movelists of 7'o-day. 21
ciates Shirley, or Put Yourself in His Place,
without wishing to know more of the relation of
labor and capital, of the history of trades-unions,
strikes, and riots, their underlying causes and
their wide-reaching effects? Cooper's tales must
inspire patriotism, a love of travel, and a fondness
for natural history; Hawthorne's stories speak
powerfully to the artistic and literary mind and give
true and delightful pictures of New England life.
A course of well-directed novel-reading in our
time will cultivate the mind, widen the thought,
and aid an intelligent reader to form well-balanced
opinions; it will also provide him with an array
of facts for any of the discussions of the day, and
help him to express his own thoughts fluently and
happily.
It is certainly true that many novels treat of
immoral scenes, morbid sentiments, false theories,
and many other things that are not always edify-
ing. But these are, after all, not the best novels
or those most widely read; at least, they do not
fairly represent fiction in general. It is not
against fiction, but against bad fiction, that protest
is to be made; and it is not because fiction is bad,
but because in the main it is good, that it lives
and holds readers. Here, as everywhere, the
best thing is to choose the best, not to sweep
everything away with a too general note of con-
demnation. g
A FEW POPULAR NOVELISTS OF TO-DAY.
We have space only for a few snatches — de-
tached remarks—which, however, to the novice,
may serve as finger-posts.
22 A Few Popular Movelists of To-day.
Mr. McCarthy is authority for the following: —
Mr. Trollope carries to its utmost limits, the
realism begun by Thackeray. He can describe,
with minute photographic faithfulness, the ways,
the talk, and, sometimes, even the emotions of a
Belgravian family, of a nobleman’s country house, .
or the “womankind ’’ of a dean in a cathedral
town. — Mr. Wilkie Collins heads one class of the
sensational school of fiction, and Miss Braddon
the other. Miss Braddon deals in what may be
called ample, straightforward murders and biga-
mies, and such like material; Mr. Wilkie Collins
makes his crimes always of an enigmatic charac-
ter, and compels the reader to puzzle them out as
if they were morbid conundrums. – Mr. Charles
Reade's “Peg Woffington” and “Christie John-
stone "seem almost perfect in their symmetry and
beauty; “The Cloister and the Hearth” might
well-nigh have persuaded a reader that a new
Walter Scott was about to arise on the horizon of
our literature. — Mr. Blackmore's Lorna Doone
seems [after the great novels of Dickens, Thacke-
ray, Brontë and George Eliot] the best novel
produced in England in our time. — Mr. William
Black has no rival in the field of Scottish scenery
and Scottish character, alternating with certain
phases of London life. He has not yet shown
himself great in passion or pathos. – Mr. Thomas
Hardy has done something the same for certain
English countries. He is, occasionally, stronger
than Mr. Black, but he has not his subtle sweet-
ness, charm, and tender grace.— Miss Thackeray's
tender, gentle, womanly stories are like delicate
porcelain. — Miss Muloch's (Mrs. Craik) “John
Halifax, Gentleman,” was one of the literary suc-
cesses of the day.
A Few Popular Movelists of To-day. 23
Mr. T. H. S. Escott is authority for the follow-
ing: —
Of three or four other novelists of the time may
it be said that they chiefly strive to do for the day
that which Dickens or Thackeray did. Colonel
Lockhart, Mr. James Payn, Mr. Francillon, Mr.
George Meredith, master of a terse and pregnant
style, Mr. Justin McCarthy, Mr. Besant, and Mr.
Rice,— each of them writes not only with skill and
humor, but with much knowledge of the world in
which they live. They all of them paint contem-
porary men and women, and all have their value
for the historians of the future. There is the
same desire to treat with fidelity and fulness the
questions of the day, to illustrate the character
and the complications which the events of the
time are calculated to develop, in Mrs. Oliphant,
in Mrs. Lynn Linton, Mrs. Cashel Hoey, Mrs.
Alexander, Mrs. Edwardes, and many others.
Cleverness and ingenuity are the characteristics
of the works of all these writers, though the
three first named are those who recognize
more fully the gravity of the daily issues of
our life, the perpetual conflict of duties, the
deeper motives of ordinary action, the ulterior
tendencies of much that is petty and trivial,
the irony which besets existence. In two of
these authors, Mrs. Linton and Mrs. Hoey, it is
impossible not to recognize the influence of the
most powerful of modern novelists. Both of them
resemble George Eliot in their habit of weighing
the relative morality of motives and acts, of show-
ing how terribly complicated is the chemistry of
life, and in their appreciation of the perpetually
24 A Few Popular Movelists of To-day.
conflicting issues. – Of novelists such as “Ouida,”
Miss Braddon, and Miss Rhoda Broughton, there
is little which remains to be said. The first of
these began with placing in the setting of feminine
imagination the materials of pictures drawn by
George Lawrence and Whyte-Melville. She has
since then come powerfully under the agency of
that pagan aestheticism which has an important
element in modern culture, and to this she has
added that experience of foreign countries and
extended travel which is seen in many other of the
novelists of the period. Miss Braddon's popular-
ity with the middle classes does not seem to wane.
She is an excellent writer of clear, idiomatic
English, and she has of recent years shown that
she can produce an interesting story without hav-
ing recourse to the sensational machinery which
was supposed to be essential to her success. Miss
Rhoda Broughton is the leading representative of
the school of literary piquancy. She has brought
freshness and ingenuity into the well-worn ways
of domestic fiction. She has followers and imita-
tors, but she has few, if any, rivals. Miss Brough-
ton may not be a force of the highest kind, but a
force, for all that, in modern literature she dis-
tinctly is. – George Macdonald is only a novelist
incidentally, and he is really a moral and religious
homilist, who popularizes his sermons by giving
them the form of fictions. Mr. Lawrence Oliphant
cannot be called a theological writer, but in his
“Piccadilly,” which has an immense influence upon
the writing of the day, he has probed very deeply
some of the greatest of modern problems. There
are, however, many novels, and some of those the
best and most popular of our time, which may be
A Few Popular Movelists of To-day. 25
regarded as protests against the restless, feverish,
perplexed, and inquiring spirit which animates
much of the modern fiction. The pleasant,
sketchy romances of Mr. Hamilton Aldé, Mr.
Walford, Mr. Julian Sturgis, and others, afford not
only a relief, but a remonstrance to that delirious
unrest, of which Kingsley’s “Yeast” may be taken
as a type.
Mr. Charles F. Richardson is our source for the
following notes on recent American novelists: —
J. T. Trowbridge's “Neighbor Jackwood” has
hardly been surpassed as a picture of American
home life in the country. — Bret Harte has won-
derful wit and pathos. “The Luck of Roaring
Camp” and “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” are
the best of his short stories. – T. B. Aldrich has
genius of a rare and delicate quality, coupled with
exquisite humor and surprising cleverness of situa-
tion. “Prudence Palfrey,” “The Queen of Sheba,”
and “The Stillwater Tragedy,” have, in substance,
the finish and quiet humor of his shorter stories.
— W. D. Howells is considered the first of recent
writers of prose. “Their Wedding Journey”
showed him to be the best literary painter of con-
temporary American life in the better classes. –
Theodore Winthrop's novels are the breeziest and
heartiest of American works of fiction. — Edward
Eggleston has found a special field in novels of
pioneer life. “The Hoosier Schoolmaster” se-
cured him general recognition as one of the most
vigorous of American novelists. – Julian Haw-
thorne has inherited, to a large extent, his fa-
ther's tastes and methods. His novels are weird
studies of abnormal life, elaborated with much
26 A Few Popular Movelists of To-day.
literary skill. — Henry James, Jr., describes men's
ways and words, and leaves the reader to infer
their character therefrom. “Roderick Hudson,”
“The American " and “Watch and Ward,” are as
faultless as statues, but as cold. — Elizabeth Stu-
art Phelps’ “Story of Avis" is her chief work,
being a dramatic and highly wrought record of the
struggles of a woman’s soul. — Louise May Al-
cott's novel of “Work,” and her stories and
sketches of adult life, promise an elaborate work
of fiction in the future. — Harriet Prescott Spof-
ford's great powers of construction and elabora-
tion are best seen in her story of “Midsummer
and May,” in her volume, “The Amber Gods and
other Stories. – William M. Baker has illustrated
the peculiarities and people of the South-western
States. – Frank Lee Benedict and J. W. De For-
rest are writers of stories in which middle-class
American society receives an attractive presenta-
tion. — H. H. Boyesen, a young Norwegian, resi-
dent in America, has written in English, clear and
beautiful stories of his native land. — Rebecca
Harding Davis has great power in the delineation
of the sad and solemn side of life. — Mrs. A. D.
T. Whitney’s “Leslie Goldthwaite ” is a lovely pict-
ure of young girlhood. — Blanche Willis Howard's
“One Summer '' is the most agreeable of recent
love stories. – Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's
novel of Lancashire life, “That Lass o' Lowrie's,”
has great power of plot and description, and is
remarkable for its mastery of the dialect and cus-
toms of an unfamiliar region. — Edward Everett
Hale's “Man without a Country” is the most re-
markable piece of verisimilitude produced on this
side of the water.
A SYMPOSIUM ON NOVEL READING.
“The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the
most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.”
SIR. J. HERSCHEL.
“The novel claims almost every sphere of human in-
terest as its own, and has this special character, that it
is the only kind of literature in which women have done
excellently.” -
STOPFORD BROOKE.
“I do not know any more innocent way of getting the
amusement which human nature has ever craved, than
by losing one’s self in a novel. I am glad, therefore,
that other people do it as much as they do, and am sorry
that I do not myself do it more.”
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, J.R.
“Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary
appetites love them — almost all women; a vast number
of clever, hard-headed men. Judges, bishops, chancel-
lors, mathematicians, are notorious novel-readers, as
well as young boys and sweet girls, and their kind,
tender mothers.”
THACKERAY.
“It may be truthfully said that at no previous period
in the history of English literature has prose fiction been
made, in so great a degree as of late years, the vehicle
of the best thoughts of some of the best thinkers. Nor,
taking it as a whole, was it ever before characterized by
so much general purity of tone or loftiness of purpose.”
EDwARD EDwARDS.
28 Symposium of Move! Reading.
“The commonest novel, by moving in alliance with
human fears and hopes, with human instincts of wrong
and right, sustains and quickens those affections. Call-
ing them into action, it rescues them from torpor. And
hence the prečminency of all authors that merely teach,
of the meanest that moves; or that teaches, if at all, in-
directly by moving. ' DEQUINCEY.
“That reading of fiction alone, or in excess, does in-
capacitate for serious study is undoubted. That occa-
sional reading of fiction not only does not do this, but
actually, by cultivating the imagination, increases the
power to derive profit from serious study, is equally cer-
tain. The whole good of historical research comes from
applying the imagination to dry facts, and thereby giving
them life.” C. A. CUTTER.
“The library must aim to amuse as well as to instruct.
It must be remembered that a large proportion of the
readers of a community need books for recreation as
much as for edification. The lawyer, even after a week
with his causes and reports, finds recreation for mind
and body in the last new novel of George Eliot. Some
of the most persistent novel-readers I know are learned
doctors and doctors of divinity.”
JUSTIN WINSoR.
“Let us understand, once for all, that fiction meets an
eternal taste in man. It is not merely milk for babes,
but meat for men. A man who has no taste for fiction
is deficient in somé faculty. Reading fiction is not an
evil to be abated, but a tendency to be educated, purified,
and guided. People should be taught to read, not pas-
sively, but actively; to think about what they read, and
talk of it.” JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE.'
Symposium of AVozel Reading. 29
“There is a period in the intellectual development of
every person, who later on becomes a scholar, when he
craves novel reading, and the craving ought to be satis-
fied. Jeremy Bentham, who was the most practical of
English jurists, condemns the practice of his parents
in keeping novels out of his reach and compelling him
to read them by stealth, and Lord Macaulay gives the
same testimony in his own experience.”
W. F. POOLE.
“A good novel rests the wearied brain, clarifies the
moral sentiments, presents the higher truths in concrete
and applied forms, awakens the emotions, opens the in-
visible world to the soul dulled by continual contact with
the earth, and sends it back from its mount of vision
with a higher conception of life and a purer and nobler
purpose to live worthily, nobly, heroically. If your
novel reading does not do this for you, find fault not
with the novel but with yourself.”
CHRISTIAN UNION.
“‘Dumb yearnings, hidden appetites are ours,
And they must have their food.”
Therefore the greed of childhood for the lore of fairy-
land; therefore the delight of youth in the adventures of
a Crusoe or a Sinbad, in tales of magical lamps and en-
chanted castles, of ogres slain and princesses released;
and therefore the survival of the novel, notwithstanding
its changes of form and theme, as a permanent force in
literature.”
CHRISTIAN REGISTER.
“Nothing is more remarkable in the present condition
of literature than the fact that, whereas there were in the
last century only three eminent novelists, there are a
great many persons who can write interesting stories
3O Symposium of Movel Reading.
with great ease. I confess that it seems to me that
whatever may be the achievements of science, the quid-
quid agrunt homines will always interest mankind quite
as much as gases, or flowers, or beasts, or birds, or
fishes. That, I think, will continue to survive all
changes of human thought and all aspects of human
society.”
JAMES RUSSELL Low ELL.
“There are no symptoms yet that the novel is about
to lose its popularity as a form of literature. On the
contrary, there is every symptom that, in one shape or
another, it will continue to be popular for a long time,
and that more and more of talent will flow into it. . . . .
The novel, we have found, has been becoming more real
and determinate in so far as it can convey matter of fact,
more earnest in so far as it can be made a vehicle for
matter of speculation, and more conscious, at the same
time, of its ability in all matter of phantasy. What is
this but saying that its "capabilities have been increasing
simultaneously as regards each of three kinds of intel-
lectual exercise which make up total literature — History,
Philosophy, and Poetry.”
DAVID MASSON.
“An acquaintance tells me that the example of Hardy,
the servitor, in Tom Brown at Oxford, had a powerful
influence in forming the ideal which attracted him as he
was entering upon the duties of manhood. A distin-
guished clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church
says, in a paper on “The Novel and its Influence upon
Modern Life,” read at the annual Congress held in Cin-
cinnati last October: “For one I may say that I would
cheerfully drop out of my own past a good many influ-
ences that I value, sooner than lose those that came to
me, some twenty years ago, from the writings of the late
Symposium of AVovel Reading. 31
Charles Kingsley. What the author of Alton Locke,
Yeast, and Hypatia did for young men whose notions
were taking to themselves form in those days, some one,
no doubt, is doing for the same class now. It is a good,
a gracious work, and he is blessed who has the power to
do it well.”
S. S. GREEN.
“Ellesmere's reference to Les Miserables has put me
in mind of what he said some time ago about novels.
Do you remember the fun he made of his ‘Edwin and
Angelina’? But if he meant to run down the works of
fiction of the present day, I am sure he is not warranted
in doing so. I have just been reading a number of the
Last Chronicle of Barset. What an excellent novel it
is IHow true to life are the conversations and the let-
ters! Now I maintain that no age has been so rich in
good works of fiction, and perhaps in good writing of
all kinds, as ours. Ellesmere will, I dare say, declare
that, in a future age, almost all the present writers will
be quite forgotten. I do not know, but I cannot imagine
that Tennyson and Browning, Dickens and Bulwer, and
Thackeray and Trollope, and the great feminine writers,
the authoress of The Mill on the Floss, the authoress of
Şane Eyre, or of Şohn Halifax, Gentleman, and many
others, will cease to be valued and their works to be
read.”
ARTHUR HELPs.
“It is not a trivial advantage of the novel reading of
our day that it suggests elevated and quickening topics
for conversation. This advantage is not a trivial one,
when we reflect that conversation too readily degenerates
into gossiping personalities or unmeaning twaddle about
the weather, or the last insignificant occurrence that
happens to 1nterest any person present. For young per-
32 - Symposium of Move! Reading.
sons especially it is of no little service to have topics at
hand that are fruitful of thought, that awaken a warm
interest and call out positive opinions. The last new
novel is suggestive in all these directions. It stimulates
to the analysis of its characters and the criticism of its
plot, and calls out likings and dislikings, which the
holders of either are forward to assert and defend.
These opinions, and the reasons by which they are de-
fended, invariably turn upon the observations of actual
life, characters and manner which the parties may have
made, and in this way stimulate to activity of thought
and independence of judgment. Even if the novel is
second-rate, the incidents unnatural, and the characters
'extravagant, the effect of discussing these is usually
good. Novel reading is a powerful educating influence
in whatever aspect it is regarded, and, though it may
often educate to evil, its power to stimulate from bar-
renness and frivolity should never be overlooked.”
NOAH Port E.R.
“I just spoke of the gin-and-water of the circulating
library; but let me put in a good word for the circulating
library, and for the study of novels. Yes, the study of
novels; for novel-writing has become, in these modern
days, an important branch of art, and novels a very real
and substantial department of literature. He who either
neglects or despises or fears novels not only cuts him-
self off from one of the very best sources of intellectual
and moral refreshment, but ignores a branch of literature
from which a wise reader can get instruction as well as
entertainment. I am not a very social man, and some
of my best friends are in novels. Don’t you know all
Jane Austen's people? Have you ever lain on a couch,
languid with illness, and had some pleasant voice read
Symposium of AVoved Reading. 33
Wives and Daughters to you? I say nothing of the
great artists—of Thackeray, of George Eliot; but such
is my love for the dear old mother-country that I can
greatly enjoy Mr. Trollope's best stories, and even read
his worst, for the sake of the glimpses of English life
they give me. You know what Talleyrand said to the
young man who could not play whist “Young man,
what an unhappy old age you are laying up for your-
self!” And so, of him who has not learned how to read
novels, it may be said, What a source of refreshing and
improving and innocent amusement he has failed to
avail himself of !” WM. P. ATKINSoN.
“When I hear a person say that he or she has never
read lovels, I instantly decide that such a person is not
worth cultivating as a friend. In the first place, what a
confession of ignorance! and what a suggestion of men-
tal vacuum ! and what an absence of ideals | . . .
“There is a certain class of people—and for the most
part very good and very religious people — who have
always taken a tone of horror concerning novel reading
and its pernicious influence. There are no doubt per-
nicious novels, although the persons who talk about
them are not apt to distinguish between the good and
the bad, and injure their cause by feeble generalizations
which amount to practical untruth. Another class is
in the habit of taking a tone of intellectual superiority to
novels, both the reading of them and the writing of
them. Let me quote Miss Austen's clever defence of
novels and novelists in Worthanger Abbey, for it is
almost as well suited to the present time as to the date
when it was written : —
“‘Although our productions have afforded more exten-
sive and unaffected pleasure than those of any literary
34 Symposium of AVovel Reading.
corporation in the world, no species of composition has
been so much decried. From pride, ignorance, or
fashion our foes are almost as many as our readers; and
while the abilities of the nine hundredth abridger of the
history of England, or of the man who collects and pub.
lishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope,
and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator and a chapte:
from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens, there
seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacitº
and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slight
ing the performances which have only genius, wit, and
taste to recommend them. “I am no novel-reader; }
seldom look into novels; do not imagine that I often
read novels; it is really very good for a novel.” Such
is the common cant. “And what are you reading, Miss
?”—“Oh, it is only a novel,” replies the young
lady, while she lays down her book with affected indif.
ference or momentary shame. “It is only “Cecilia,” or
‘Camilla,’ or ‘Beliºda,” or, in short, only some work
in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed
— in which the most thorough knowledge of human
nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the live-
liest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the
world in the best-chosen language.””
LIPPINCort's MAGAZINE.
READING D I ARY.
tº LIST of NovezS.

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Merit.
About, Edmond.
King of the Mountains
Man with the Broken Ear
Story of an Honest Man .
Tolla .
Adams, Mrs., see Leith-Adams.
Aidé, Hamilton.
Penruddocke
Poet and Peer .
Rita
Aguilar, Grace.
Home Influence .
Mother's Recompense .
Ainsworth, W. H.
Lancashire Witches .
Tower of London
Windsor Castle
Alcott, Louisa M.
Little Women .
Old-Fashioned Girl .
Work .
Aldrich, Thos. Bailey.
Marjorie Daw .
Prudence Palfrey . .
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Aldrich, Thos. Bailey, cont’d.
Queen of Sheba.
Stillwater Tragedy
Alexander, Mrs.
Frères, The
Her Dearest Foe
Heritage of Langdale .
Maid, Wife or Widow P.
Which Shall It Be?
Wooing O't
Andersen, Hans Christian.
Improvisatore
Auerbach, Berthold.
Black Forest Stories
Little Barefoot
On the Heights
Austen, Jane.
Emma . º
Mansfield Park
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility .
Baker, William M.
Blessed Saint Certainty
His Majesty Myself
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Merit.

Books worth Reading.
Merit.
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Balzac, Honoré de.
Eugenie Grandet
Baring-Gould, S.
In Exitu Israel
Beaconsfield, Lord, see Dis-
raeli.
Beale, Anne.
Miller's Daughter
Beecher, Henry Ward.
Norwood
Benedict, Frank Lee.
Miss Van Kortland .
My Daughter Elinor
St. Simon's Niece
Besant, W., and Rice, J.
By Celia's Arbor
Chaplain of the Fleet .
Golden Butterfly
My Little Girl
Seamy Side
Bishop, W. H.
Detmold
Björnson, Björnstjerne.
Arne
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Björnson, Björnstjerne, cont'd.
Fisher Maiden
Synnøve Solbakken .
Black, William.
Daughter of Heth .
In Silk Attire
Kilmeny gº
Macleod of Dare
Monarch of Mincing Lane
Princess of Thule sº
Strange Advent. of a Phaeton
Green Pastures and Piccadilly ſ
Sunrise . tº º e
That Beautiful Wretch
Blackburne, E. O.
Glen of Silver Birches.
Blackmore, R. D.
Alice Lorraine
Cripps the Carrier .
Lorna Doone .
Maid of Sker
Mary Anerley
Blanche, Aug.
Blindpits
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Borrow, George.
Lavengro
Boyesen, H. H.
Falconberg
Gunnar . tº a
Ilka on the Hilltop
Queen Titania
Braddon, Miss M. E.
Asphodel tº & ©
Aurora Floyd . . . . .
Bound to John Company .
Hostages to Fortune
John Marchmont's Legacy
Joshua Haggard’s Daughter .
Lady Audley's Secret .
Taken at the Flood
Vixen
Bremer, Fredrika.
Home
Neighbors .
Brontë, Charlotte.
Jane Eyre .
Professor
Shirley .
Villette .
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Broughton, Rhoda.
Cometh up as a Flower .
Good-Bye, Sweetheart .
Joan
Nancy . . . . . . .
Not Wisely, but Too Well
Red as a Rose is She .
Second Thoughts
Brown, Charles Brockden.
Arthur Mervyn
Brown, John.
Marjorie Fleming
Rab and His Friends .
Bryan, Mary E.
Manch .
Wild Work
Bulwer-Lytton, Sir E. G. E. L.
Alice
Caxtons
Devereux .
Disowned .
Eugene Aram
Harold . e e
Last Days of Pompeii.
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Bulwer-Lytton, Sir, cont’d.
Kenelm Chillingly
Last of the Barons .
My Novel. e
Night and Morning
Parisians tº tº
Pelham .
Rienzi tº e º e
Strange Story. . . . . .
What Will He Do With It?
Zanoni .
Burnett, Mrs. Frances H.
Fair Barbarian
Haworth's .
Kathleen
Lindsay’s Luck
Louisiana . &
Miss Crespigny .
Surly Tim . . . . . .
That Lass o' Lowrie's .
Theo .
Butts, Beatrice M.
Delicia .
Hester .
Miss Molly
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Buxton, Mrs. B. H.
Jennie of “The Prince’s ”.
Bynner, E. L.
Nimport
Cable, George W.
Grandissimes .
Madame Delphine .
Old Creole Days
Cadell, Mrs. H. M.
Ida Craven
Cameron, Mrs. H. L.
Deceivers Ever
Juliet's Guardian .
Carey, Rosa Nouchette.
Nellie's Memories
Queenie's Whim .
Wooed and Married
champney, Mrs. Lizzie W.
Bourbon Lilies
Charles, Mrs. E.
Draytons and Davenants .
Kitty Trevylyan . e
Schönberg-Cotta Family .
Winifred Bertram
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Cherbuliez, Victor.
Count Kostia
Saints and Sinners .
Samuel Brohl & Co.
Chesebro", Caroline.
Foe in the Household
Chesney, George.
Private Secretary
| Church, Mrs. Ross, see Mar-
ryat, Florence.
Clarke, C., see Roberts, Miss.
Collins, Wilkie.
Armadale . . ".
Dead Secret .
Law and the Lady.
Man and Wife
Moonstone
New Magdalen
No Name .
Woman in White
Cooke, J. E.
Henry St. John . . . . .
Stories of the Old Dominion
Virginia Comedians
G.)

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Cooke, Rose Terry.
Somebody's Neighbors
Cooper, J. Fenimore.
Deerslayer . . . .
Last of the Mohican
Pathfinder .
Pilot
Pioneers
Prairie .
Red Rover
Spy . . . .
Two Admirals
Wing-and-Wing .
Corkran, Alice.
Bessie Lang .
Craik, Miss Georgiana M.
Anne Warwick .
Dorcas . . . . . .
Faith Unwin's Ordeal .
Leslie Tyrrell
Sydney. §
Sylvia's Choice
Two Women . tº tº $ tº
Craik, Mrs. D. M., see Mu- |
lock, Miss.
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Craven, Mme. A.
Fleurange .
Sister's Story .
Cummins, Miss M. S.
Lamplighter
Curtis, Geo. W.
Trumps.
Daudet, Alphonse.
Kings in Exile
My Brother Jack
Nabob .
Sidonie . tº g tº
Davis, Rebecca Harding.
JDallas Galbraith .
Margret Howth .
Waiting for the Verdict
DeForest, J. W.
Bloody Chasm
Kate Beaumont .
Miss Ravenel's Conversion
Overland
DeMille, J.
Cord and Creese
Dodge Club .
Lady of the Ice .
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Denison, Mrs. M. A.
That Husband of Mine
Despard, Mrs. M. C.
Chaste as Ice, Pure as Snow .
Dickens, Charles.
Barnaby Rudge .
Bleak House . . . . . . ;
Chimes. &
Christmas Carol .
Christmas Stories
Cricket on the Hearth
David Copperfield .
Dombey and Son
Great Expectations .
Hard Times
Little Dorrit .
Martin Chuzzlewit .
Nicholas Nickleby
Old Curiosity Shop
Oliver Twist
Our Mutual Friend .
Pickwick Papers.
Tale of Two Cities.
Dingelstedt, Franz.
Amazon
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Disraeli, B. (Lord Beaconsfield.)
Coningsby . e &
Contarini Fleming .
Endymion . . . .
Henrietta Temple
Lothair .
Sybil
Tancred
Venetia.
Vivian Grey
Young Duke .
Dostoyeffsky, Fedor.
Buried Alive .
Douglas, Amanda M.
From Hand to Mouth .
In Trust g
Lost in a Great City
Nellie Kinnard's Kingdom
With Fate Against Him .
Droz, Gustave.
Around a Spring
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Dumas, Alexandre.
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Their Wedding Journey
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My Love
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Under which Lord .
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Some Women's Hearts
Mühlbach, Louise.
Frederick the Great
Joseph II. and his Court.
Müller, Max.
Story of German Love.
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Member for Paris
Newman, Mrs.
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Love in Idleness &
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Sealed Orders . . . .
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Phillipps, Barnet.
Burning their Ships
Struggle tº
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Scottish Chiefs
Thaddeus of Warsaw
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Marie . . . . .
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Little Pansy . . .
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Reade, Charles.
Christie Johnstone . . . .
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Foul Play . . .
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It is Never too Late to Mend.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long
Peg Woffington . . . . .
Put Yourself in His Place
Very Hard Cash .
White Lies . .
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Mademoiselle Mori .
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Janet's Love and Service .
Robinson, F. W.
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For Her Sake . . .
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Her Face Was Her Fortune.
Little Kate Kirby . . . .
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Children of the Abbey
Roe, E. P.
Barriers Burned Away.
Day of Fate .
Face Illumined
From Jest to Earnest .
Rnight of the 19th Century
Near to Nature's Heart
Opening of a Chestnut Burr.
What Can She Do?
Without a Home.
Round, Wm. M. F.
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Last Athenian . . . . . .
Saintine, X. B.
Picciola . . . . . . . .
Sand, George.
Consuelo . . . . . . .
Countess of Rudolstadt . .
Fadette (Fanchon) . . . .
Sandeau, Jules.
Madeleine .
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Week in French Country House.
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Bound to the Wheel
Israel Mort, Overman . .
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Tom Cringle's Log .
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Abbot ſº
Anne of Geierstein .
Antiquary .
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Black Dwarf .
Bride of Lammermoor.
Castle Dangerous . . . .
Chronicles of the Canongate.
Count Robert of Paris.
Fair Maid of Perth
Fortunes of Nigel
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Heart of Midlothian . .
Highland Widow
Ivanhoe
Kenilworth
Legend of Montrose
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Red Gauntlet.
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St. Ronan’s Well
Tales of a Grandfather
Talisman
Waverley .
Woodstock
Scudder, H. E.
Dwellers in Five Sisters Court
Stories and Romances .
Sedgwick, Catherine M.
Hope Leslie tº
Linwoods .
Married or Single? .
Seemiiller, Mrs. A. M. C.
Emily Chester
Opportunity
Sewell, Miss E. M.
Amy Herbert.
Ursula .
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Partisan . . . . . . . .
Yemassee . . . . . . .
Smart, Hawley.
Breezie Langton . . . . .
Race lºor a Wife . . .
Smedley, Frank E.
Frank Fairleigh . . . .
Harry Coverdale . . . .
Lewis Arundel . . . . .
Smith, Julie P.
Widow Goldsmith's Daughter
Chris and Otho . . . .
Married Belle . . . .
Widower . . . . . .
Lucy . . . . . . . .
Southworth, Mrs. E. D. E. N.
Bridal Eve . . . . . . .
Curse of Clifton . . . . .
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Fair Play . . . .
How He Won Her
Retribution
Vivia.
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Attic Philosopher
Spielhagen, F.
Hammer and Anvil
Hohensteins tº
Lady Clara de Vere
Problematic Characters
Through Night to Light .
Skeleton in the House
Spofford, Mrs. H. P.
Amber Gods .
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Sir Rohan’s Ghost .
Sprague, Mary A.
Earnest Trifler . . .
Stockton, F. R.
Rudder Grange . .
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Agnes of Sorrento .
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May Flower . e
Minister's Wooing
My Wife and I . gº
We and Our Neighbors
Nina Gordon [Dred]
Oldtown Folks
Pearl of Orr's Island
Uncle Tom’s Cabin .
Stretton, Hesba.
Bede's Charity
Doctor's Dilemma *
Hester Morley's Promise .
Through a Needle's Eye
Sturgis, J.
An Accomplished Gentleman
John-a-Dreams
Sue, Eugene,
Mysteries of Paris
Wandering Jew .
Tabor, Eliza.
Blue Ribbon .
Hope Meredith .
Jeanie's Quiet Life .
Last of her Line
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Little Miss Primrose
Meta's Faith .
St. Olave’s.
Tautphoeus, Baroness.
Cyrilla .
Initials .
Quits
Taylor, Bayard.
Hannah Thurston
Joseph and His Friend.
John Godfrey's Fortunes
Story of Kennett
Thackeray, Miss A. I.
Old Kensington .
Story of Elizabeth
Village on the Cliff .
Thackeray, Wm. M.
Adventures of Philip
Catherine . e
Henry Esmond
Lovel the Widower .
Newcomes.
Pendennis .
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Vanity Fair
Virginians.
Theuriet, A.
Antoinette .
Gérard’s Marriage
Godson of a Marquis . .
Young Maugars .
Thomas, Annie.
Denis Donne . tº e
‘He Cometh Not,” She Said
On Guard .
Passion in Tatters
Played Out . . . .
Playing for High Stake
Two Widows . º
Tincker, Mary Agnes.
By the Tiber. g
Signor Monaldini's Niece.
Tissot, V., and Améro, C.
Exiles . . . . .
Tourgee, Albion W.
Bricks Without Straw .
Figs and Thistles
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Fool’s Errand
Toinette
Townsend, Virginia F.
Lenox Dare º ºg
One Woman’s Two Lovers
Trafford, F. G., see Riddell, Mrs.
Trafton, Miss A.
His Inheritance .
Katherine Earle .
Trollope, Anthony.
American Senator
Ayala's Angel
Barchester Towers .
Belton Estate .
Bertrams . . . . .
Can You Forgive Her?
Castle Richmond
Claverings.
Doctor Thorne
Dr. Wortle’s School
Eustace Diamonds .
Framley Parsonage . . .
He Knew He Was Right
Is He Popenjoy?
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John Caldigate
Lady Anna . . . .
Last Chronicle of Barset
Orley Farm
Phineas Finn .
Phineas Redux
Prime Minister tº &
Ralph the Heir . . . .
Small House at Allington
Vicar of Bullhampton .
Warden
Trowbridge, J. T.
Coupon Bonds, etc. .
Neighbor Jackwood
Neighbor's Wives
Turgénieff, Ivan.
Dimitri Roudine .
Fathers and Sons
Smoke .
Virgin Soil
Tytler, Sarah.
Citoyenne Jacqueline
Days of Yore
Noblesse Oblige .
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Verne, Jules.
From the Earth to the Moon .
Journey to Centre of Earth .
Michael Strogoff
Mysterious Island
Twenty Thousand Leagues
Vigny, A. de.
Cinq Mars
Vincent, Jacques.
Return of the Princess
Walford, L. B.
Cousins
Mr. Smith .
Pauline . © tº tº
Troublesome Daughters
Wallace, Lew.
Ben-Hur e
Fair God (The) .
Ware, Wm.
Aurelian
Julian
Zenobia
Warner, Anna B. and Susan.
End of a Coil
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Gold of Chickaree .
Hills of Shatemuc
Letter of Credit .
My Desire.
Queechy . . . .
Wide, Wide World .
Wych Hazel .
Warren, Samuel.
Diary of a Physician
Ten Thousand a Year .
Werner, E.
Bound by His Vows
Good Luck
Whitney, Mrs. A. D. T.
Faith Gartney's Girlhood .
Gayworthys e
Hitherto o
Ileslie Goldthwaite .
Odd or Even?
Other ‘Girls o
Patience Strong's Outings
Real Folks *
Sights and Insights.
We Girls
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What a Boy!
Winthrop, Theo.
Cecil Dreeme
Edwin Brothertop
John Brent
Wood, Mrs. "Henry.
Channings.
East Lynne . . .
Master of Greylands
Orville College . .
Woolson, Constance F.
Anne © C.
Castle Nowhere .
Rodman the Keeper
Wylde, K.
A Dreamer
Yates, Edmund.
Black Sheep .
Broken to Harness .
Dr. Wainwright's Patient .
Forlorn Hope
Land at Last .
Wrecked in Port
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Chaplet of Pearls . . . .
Clever Woman of the Family
Daisy Chain
Trial tº dº ſº º
Dove in the Eagle's Nest
Heartsease
Heir of Redclyffe
Hopes and Fears
Love and Life
Magnum Bonum .
Pillars of the House
Three Brides .
Young Stepmother .
Anonymous.
Afterglow .
Airy Fairy Lilian
Beauty's Daughters
Mrs. Geoffrey . . By same
Molly Bawn . . author.
Phyllis .
Baby Rue .
Cape Cod Folks.
Colonel's Opera Cloak.
Democracy
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Gemini .
Georgians . . . . .
Hetty's Strange Story .
Homoselle . * @
Irene the Missionary
Is that All? . . .
Jewel of a Girl . wº
Last of the Cavaliers U By same
Gain of a Loss . author.
Lesson in Love .
Madge Dunraven . e
Manuela Parédes . . .
Marmorne . . . . . .
Mercy Philbrick's Choice.
Mrs. Beauchamp Brown . .
Modern Mephistopheles . .
Nameless Nobleman
Patty's Perversities . . . .
Paul Ferroll . .
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Salvage
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Tsar’s Window e
Two Miss Flemings
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Blue Roses .
Hôtel du Petit St. By same
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Jean . author.
Within Sound of
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Ward or Wife? . tº gº
Whim and its Consequences.
Will Denbigh, Nobleman ,
Wolf at the Door
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