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V.

+Historical Romances.+

MISS PORTER’S _Scottish Chiefs_.

SCOTT’S _Waverley Novels_.

The Novels of G. P. R. James.

BULWER’S _Last Days of Pompeii_; _Rienzi_; _Harold_; _The Last of the Barons_.

LOCKHART’S _Valerius_.

KINGSLEY’S _Hypatia_.

GEORGE ELIOT’S _Romola_.

See Lockhart’s _Life of Scott_; Stephen’s _Hours in a Library_; Carlyle’s Essay on _Sir Walter Scott_; Shaw’s _Manual of English Literature_; Hutton’s _Scott_, in “English Men of Letters;” Nassau Senior’s _Essays on Fiction_; _The Life of Edward Bulwer-Lytton_, by his son, the present Lord Lytton.