Even so, it was whispered to me lately that Professor B, whose word shakes the continent, holds in a lower drawer no fewer than three unpublished historical novels, each set up with a full quota of smugglers and red bandits.

SEE The collected novels and stories of Guy de Maupassant.

IOLE Another splendid example of the author's versatility is this farcical, humorous satire on the art nouveau of to-day, Mr. Chambers, with all his knowledge of the artistic jargon, has in this little novel created a pious fraud of a father, who brings up his eight lovely daughters in the Adirondacks, where they wear pink pajamas and eat nuts and fruit, and listen to him while he lectures them and everybody else on art.

Pity he has not been introduced among our "fashionable novels.

Such an ending seems disappointing, almost bizarre, in view of the romantic novels to which we are accustomed; but we must remember that Thackeray's purpose was to paint life as he saw it, and that in life men and things often take a different way from that described in romances.

Dawn, a biographical novel of Edith Cavell.

There's a most frightfully exciting Western novel" The smile took on a slightly ironical edge.

There is no better instance of the fact that books will not live by good works alone than is offered by the utterly neglected heroic novels of the seventeenth century.

Take all the good things that come your way and rejoice in them, but don't moon around and fuss because you can't have the sort of love-life described in some sentimental novel.

Shorter novels of Herman Melville.

His prison experience, and the further knowledge of criminals gained in over twenty years as a spy, accounts for his numerous stories of thieves and pirates, Jonathan Wild and Captain Avery, and also for his later novels, which deal almost exclusively with villains and outcasts.

She treated him coldly, and began to read some silly novel of the day.

In Bernard Shaw's clever novel Cashel Byron's Profession, The prize-fighter maintains that his profession is more honorable than that of a man who bakes dogs in an oven.

I had finished my lists and drawings for McMurtrie, and my only resources were two or three sensational novels which Sonia brought me back one day after a visit to Plymouth.

Well, Bumsteadville is just the place to furnish a nice, dry, inoffensive domestic novel in the sedative vein.

<pb id='362.png' /> HILLHOUSE, JAMES T. The Waverly novels and their critics.

Later years have slowly brought a just recognition of the important position that she holds in the history of the realistic novel of daily life.

Something you have heard your father tell What happened to your uncle Your partner's (chum's) escapade Meeting an old friend Meeting a bore A conversation you have overheard When Myrtle eavesdropped When the girls didn't know Algy was in the parlor A public happening that interests you An incident you have read in the papers An incident from your favorite novel Backward Ben at the party Something that happened to you today.

The lie, exaggeration, liking for rotten thingssuch is the exact picture in contemporary novels.

The Vicar of Wakefield is a delightful romantic novel, which Andrew Lang classes among books "to be read once a year."

The same method is employed in all trashy novels and it is especially the bane of many modern story-writers.

In 1809 her religious novel, Coelebs in Search of a Wife, issued anonymously, roused universal attention.

The psychological and the historical novel, the latter, in its modern conception, akin to the former, since it is a study of the psychology of historical characters and a historical epoch, is the form of fiction at present most in vogue.

In the possession of some one of the boys was a thick, old-fashioned novel of the yellow-covered type, entitled, "Rinard, the Red Revenger," and Billy had followed the record of the murderous pirate chieftain with the greatest gusto, and had insisted upon bestowing his title upon the jumper.

In 1838 appeared Homeward Bound and Home as Found, two satirical novels, in which Cooper held up to ridicule a certain class of conductors of the newspaper press in America.