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Rh cloth-of-gold and pageants, and how he made his people like him from sheer admiration of his own splendid conceit. A tyrant, but such a human sort of creature that people forgave him his bad deeds. And there is a romance of Henry’s sister,, which is told by Charles Major in a book you must get, though I dare say it is one that most of you know already—“.”

The great belongs in this time, and this was the era of the, begun by. Henry did not like Luther's ideas, and replied to them in a book of his own, which drew another book from Luther, and the world was very much excited.

There are several good stories of this part of England's life. There is G. P. R. James's tale of “,” which is very romantic and full of descriptions of the looks and manners of English folk great and small, with Henry’s famous meeting with of France as an important occurrence in the story, Then Charlotte Yonge has one of  her charming books set in this reign, with lots about Wolsey, who was, if possible, even more magnificent than the king, and certainly a far greater man. This is called “,” and tells how two nice lads came up from the to London to see what it  held for them. It held a good deal, and it is all told so that you are glad to read it, and finish with a feeling that you know the things interested people in those days as well as they did themselves.

It was King Henry VIII who was first called “,” and Frank Mathew has written a story with this title (Lane, $1.50) that is said to be excellent, but I have not seen it, and can only report that it is quoted as “good.” A book I have read, however, and would willingly read over, is W. Harrison Ainsworth’s “.”

This story is as brilliant and changing as a medieval procession, All the great men and women of the time of Henry's prime come into the tale; and  are the two heroines, while the mysterious legend of  runs its ghostly way from chapter to chapter. There are two editions, both published by Dutton, one without illustrations, and the other with delightful pictures by.