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R. B. Vacation Days in Greece (N. Y., 1903, Scribner, $2.00).
Warner, C. D. In the Levant (N. Y., 1876, Harper, $2.00).
HISTORICAL FICTION
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 (new ed., N. Y., 1914, Macmillan, $6.00) and Jonathan Nield, A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales (3d ed., N. Y., 1904, Putnam, $1.75). 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.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. The Last Days of Pompeii (Boston, 1834, Little, Brown, and Co., $1.25).
Champney, Elizabeth W. The Romance of Imperial Rome (N. Y., 1910, Putnam, $3.50).
Church, A. J. Roman Life in the Days of Cicero (N. Y., 1883, Macmillan, 50 cents).
------ Stories of Charlemagne and the Twelve Peers of France (N. Y., 1902, Macmillan, $1.75).
Cox, G. W. Tales of Ancient Greece (Chicago, 1868, McClurg, $1.00).
Dahn, Felix, Felicitas (Chicago, 1883, McClurg, 75 cents). Rome, 476 A.D.
Doyle, A. C. The White Company (Boston, 1890, Caldwell, 75 cents). The English in France and Castile, 1366-1367 A.D.
Ebers, Georg, Uarda (N. Y., 1877, Appleton, 2 vols., $1.50). Egypt, fourteenth century B.C.
Eliot, George. Romola (N. Y., 1863, Dutton, 35 cents). Florence and Savonarola in the latter part of the fifteenth century.
F��nelon, Fran?ois. _Adventures of Telemachus_, translated by Dr. Hawkesworth (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., $2.25).
Hale, E. E. In His Name (Boston, 1873, Little, Brown, and Co., $1.00). The Waldenses about 1179 A.D.
Hardy, A. S. Passe Rose (Boston, 1889, Houghton Mifflin Co., $1.25). Franks and Saxons of Charlemagne's time.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter (N. Y., 1850, Dutton, 35 cents). Massachusetts in the seventeenth century.
Henty, G. A. The Young Carthaginian (N. Y., 1886, Scribner, $1.50). Second Punic War.
Hugo, Victor. Notre Dame (N. Y. 1831, Dutton, 35 cents). Paris, late fifteenth century.
Irving, Washington. The Alhambra (N. Y., 1832, Putnam, $1.00). Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards.
Jacobs, Joseph (editor). The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox (N. Y., 1895, Macmillan, $1.50).
Kingsley, Charles S. Hypatia (N. Y., 1853, Macmillan, $1.25). Alexandria, 391 A.D.
------ _Westward Ho!_ (N. Y., 1855, Button, 35 Cents). Voyages of Elizabethan seamen and the struggle with Spain.
Kipling, Rudyard. Puck of Pooks Hill (N. Y., 1906, Doubleday, Page, and Co., $1.50). Roman occupation of Britain.
Lang, Andrew. The Monk of Fife (N. Y., 1895, Longmans, Green, and Co., $1.25). The Maid of Orleans and the Hundred Years' War.
Lane, E. W. (translator). _The Arabian Nights' Entertainments_ (2d ed., N. Y., 1859, Macmillan, 35 cents).
London, Jack. Before Adam (N. Y., 1907, Macmillan, $1.50). Prehistoric life.
Manzoni, Alessandro. The Betrothed (N. Y., 1825, Macmillan, 2 vols., 70 cents). Milan under Spanish rule, 1628-1630 A.D.
Mason, Eugene (translator). _Aucassin and Nicolette and other Medieval Romances, and Legends_ (N. Y., 1910, Dutton, 35 cents).
Newman, J. H. Callista (N. Y., 1856, Longmans, Green, and Co., $1.25). Persecution of Christians in North Africa, 250 A.D.
Reade, Charles. The Cloister and the Hearth (N. Y., 1861, Dutton, 35 cents). Eve of the Reformation.
Scheffel, J. Von. _Ekkehard_, translated by Helena Easson (N. Y., 1857, Dutton, 35 cents). Germany in the tenth century.
Scott, (Sir) Walter. The Talisman (N. Y., 1825, Dutton, 35 cents). Reign of Richard I, 1193 A.D.
------ Ivanhoe (N. Y., Heath, 50 cents). Richard I, 1194 A.D.
Sienkiewicz, Henryk. _Quo Vadis?_ (Boston, 1896, Little, Brown, and Co., $2.00). Reign of Nero.
Stevenson, R. L. The Black Arrow (N. Y., 1888, Scribner, $1.00). War of the Roses.
"Twain, Mark." A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur (N. Y., 1889, Harper, $1.75).
Wallace, Lew. _Ben-Hur; a Tale of the Christ_ (N. Y., 1880, Harper, $1.50).
Waterloo, Stanley. The Story of Ab (2d ed., N. Y., 1905, Doubleday, Page, and Co., $1.50). Prehistoric life.
HISTORICAL POETRY
It is unnecessary to emphasize the value, as collateral reading, of historical poems and plays. To the brief list which follows should be added the material in Katharine Lee Bates and Katharine Coman, English History told by English Poets (N. Y., 1902, Macmillan, 60 cents).
Browning, Robert. _Echetlos and Pheidippides._
Burns, Robert. _The Battle of Bannockburn._
Byron (Lord). _Song of Saul before His Last Battle, The Destruction of Sennacherib, Belshazzar's Feast, Prometheus,_ "Greece" (_The Corsair_, canto iii, lines 1-54), "Modern Greece" (_Childe Harold_, canto ii, stanzas 85-91), "The Death of Greece" (_The Giaour_, lines 68-141), "The Isles of Greece" (_Don Juan_, canto in), and "The Colosseum" (_Childe Harold_, canto iv, stanzas 140-145).
Clough, A. H. Columbus.
Coleridge, S. T. Kubla Khan.
Domett, Alfred. A Christmas Hymn Drayton, Michael. _The Battle of Agincourt._
Dryden, John. _Alexander's Feast._
Jonson, Ben. _Hymn to Diana._
Keats, John. _Ode on a Grecian Urn._
Kingsley, Charles. _Andromeda and The Red King._
Landor, W. S. _Orpheus and Eurydice._
Longfellow, H. W. "The Saga of King Olaf" (_Tales of a Wayside Inn_) and _The Skeleton in Armor._
Lowell, J. R. Rhoecus and _The Shepherd of King Admetus._
Macaulay, T. B. Lays of