The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-12
HISTORICAL NOVELS SET IN
ALL PERIODS AND PLACES
A Reader Writes to Ask for a List of Titles for an
lnvalid's Summer Reading.
Historical Fiction, With Settings Dating Far Back.
Plentiful Before Recent Popular Wave.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-Sir'
VIII some readcr of the literary page
furnish me a list OF historical novels for
the summer reading OF ar invalid lie
has read and enjoyed Sir Nigel 10y
Conan Doyle. aud John Inrlesant"
A. : HENrIG.
PIrTsBuRG. Pa. June !, 1919
To furnish "a complete answer H. the
above request would require columns Of
close print. For. even before the prolific
period OF II decade and 4 half ago his
torical novels were being published in
quantities, AS witness the product of
Scott, L.yttun, Dumas, Lew Wallace.
&c. The following list canno be COM
plete, nor will It attempt 10 be critical
but it presents several titles and In more
or less chronological order indicates the
period IN which the tale is set.
"Salammbo," by Gustave Flauhert
ttranslatrdl, u tale of Hamilcar. Car
thage and her merccnaries.
"Quo Nadis?" by Sienkiewicz. a
tale Of Rome in the time NJ Nero
''Mtrius the Epicurean,' by " Pate.
"A story of Rome In the time Of Marcus
Au.elius. "Hypatii," by Charles KINGS
ley. a story Of Alexandra IN the MIN
century.
"Passe Rose" by a. $. Hardy, a tale
OF the time of Char,emaEuc. "Erlins
the Bold by r. NJ %BaliaEtync, a story
of Norway In the tenth cc,tury. The
Thrall Of Left the Lucky Il tale of
the vikings In Greenland, and Tho
Ward OF King Cdnutc." both by o \.
Llljencrantz. God wills It." by Viii
lam Stearns Davis, a tale Of the First
Crusade.
"via Crucis," by +, Marion crawford,
a tale of the Second Crusade. "The Life
and Death of Richard Ycl-and- Nay"
by Maurice Hewlett, a story Of Richard
], in England and the East.
The White Company" by Conan
Doyle. a tale OF the period OF Edward
III, set In Hampshire, Bordeaux and II,
Pyrenees. "A Man at Arms by elm
ton Scollard a tale OF Milnn in the four
tenth century. personal Recollections
OF loan of Arc. by the Sieur Louis dc
Conte," by Mark Twain, a story of Joan
of Arc. "Black Douglas" by :. X.
Crockett, "A tale of william of Douglas
in fifteenth century Scotl and. ri
Black Arrow" by Il. l.. stevenson, a tale
OF the Wars of the Roses.
~ | Were King" by Justin II Me-
Carthy. n story Of Francois N!lloi
Marietta" by f.. Marion Crawford, a
story of Venice IN l47O. "Romoia.
by George Eliot, "A story Of Florence
In the time Of SavonaroIa, "Notre
Dame" rraUslated), by Victor Hugo. a
tale OF fifteenth century Paris. The
Cloister and the Hearth" by Charles
Reade, a story set Just before the
Reformation in Flanders, Germany ana
Italy.
"A Prince ~ Good Fellows by Robert
Barr. "A story of the adventurous James
V, OF Scotland. "When knighthood Was
In Flower" by Charles T.. Major. the
romance OF the Duke of suffolk and
Mary Tudor, 'rhe Prince and the PAU
per-" by Mark Twain, "a story Of Ed
ward VI, "In the Palace OF the king"
by T., Marion crawford. "A tale OF Spain
In the time Of Philip II,
Marguerite de Nalois," hy Dumas
ttranslated), a tale of 81. Bartholomew
In France, "Coun Hannibal" another
story on sne same subject as the above.
by Stanley Weyman. "a Gentleman OF
France by Stanley Weyman, a tale OF