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Rh :Jackson, A. V. W. Persia, Past and Present (N. Y., 1906, Macmillan, $4.00).
 * Kinglake, A. W. Eothen (,N.Y., 1844, Dulton, $1.00). Sketches of travel in the East.
 * Taylor, Bayard. Views A-Foot (N. Y., 1855, Putnam, $1.50). A classic work of European travel.
 * Warner, C. D. In the Levant (N. Y., Harper, 1876, out of print).

The following works of historical fiction comprise only a selection from a very large number of books suitable for supplementary reading. For extended bibliographies see E. A. Baker, A Guide to Historical Fiction, and Jonathan Nield, A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales. An excellent list of historical stories, especially designed for children, will be found in the Bibliography of History for Schools and Libraries, parts viii-ix.


 * Blackmore, R. D. Lorna Doone (1869). Monmouth's Rebellion, 1685.
 * Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. The Last Days of Pompeii (1834).
 * Cox, G. W. Tales of Ancient Greece (1868).
 * Dickens, Charles. The Tale of Two Cities (1859). London and Paris at the time of the French Revolution.
 * Eliot, George. Romola (1863). Florence in the latter part of the fifteenth century.
 * Hugo, Victor. Ninety-Three (1872). Insurrection in La Vendee, 1793.
 * — Notre Dame de Paris (1831). Paris, late fifteenth century.
 * Irving, Washington. The Alhambra (1832). Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards.

Kingsley, Charles. Hypatia (1853). Alexandria, 391 a.d.
 * — Westward Ho! (1855). Voyages of Elizabethan seamen and the struggle with Spain.
 * Kipling, Rudyard. Puck of Pook's Hill (1906). Roman occupation of Britain.
 * Lever, Charles. Charles O'Malley (1841). The Peninsular War.
 * — Tom Bourke of "Ours" (1848). French wars of the Consulate and Empire.
 * Reade, Charles. The Cloister and the Hearth (1861). Eve of the Reformation.
 * Scott, (Sir) Walter. The Talisman (1825). Reign of Richard I, 1193.
 * — Ivanhoe (1820). Richard I, 1194.
 * Shorthouse, J. H. John Inglcsant (1881). Life in England and Italy during the seventeenth century.
 * Sienkiewicz, Henryk. With Fire and Sword (1884). Poland in the seventeenth century.
 * Thackeray, W. M. Henry Esmond (1852). England during the reigns of William III and Queen Anne.
 * Tolstoy, (Count) L. N. War and Peace (1864-1869). Napoleon's campaigns in Russia.
 * — Sevastopol (1855-1856). Crimean War.
 * Wallace, Lew. Ben Hur; A Tale of the Christ (1880).
 * Waterloo, Stanley. The Story of Ab (1905). Prehistoric life.