Standard Macmillan Fiction
A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic
“As a story... there can be no question of its success.... While the beautiful love of Cornelia and Drusus lies at the sound sweet heart of the story, to say so is to give a most meagre idea of the large sustained interest of the whole.... There are many incidents so vivid, so brilliant, that they fix themselves in the memory.”—The Bookman.
“God Wills It”
A Tale of the First Crusade
“Not since Sir Walter Scott cast his spell over us with ‘Ivanhoe,’ ‘Count Robert of Paris,’ and ‘Quentin Durward’ have we been so completely captivated by a story as by ‘God Wills It,’ by William Stearns Davis. It grips the attention of the reader in the first chapter and holds it till the last.... It is a story of strenuous life, the spirit of which might well be applied in some of our modern Crusades. While true to life in its local coloring, it is sweet and pure, and leaves no after-taste of bitterness. The author’s first book, ‘A Friend of Cæsar,’ revealed his power, and ‘God Wills It’ confirms and deepens the impression made.”—Christian Endeavor World.
With Illustrations by Louis Betts
Falaise of the Blessed Voice
A Tale of the Youth of St. Louis, King of France
The story of how his enemies plotted to separate him from his fair Queen Margaret, and even from his throne itself; of how he grew from a pale lad to a most manly king, and of the part played in his life by the blind singer of Pontoise, the maid called “Falaise of the Blessed Voice.”
The Saint of the Dragon’s Dale
(In the series of “Little Novels by Favorite Authors”)
Footnotes
1 A word conveying at once “welcome!” and “farewell!”
2 The chief magistrate of an Attic commune.
3 Attic law allowed a husband to will his wife to a friend.
4 A kind of grasshopper peculiar to Greece.
5 A kind of beetle common in Greece.
6 “Give herself airs.”
7 The police magistrates of Athens.
8 A number, of course, grossly exaggerated.
9 A pottage peculiar to Sparta, made of lumps of meat, salt, and much vinegar.
10 Equivalent to crying “Hound!” in English.
11 The serfs of the Spartans.
12 The Phœnician Hercules.
13 Nearly two hundred miles.
14 Approximately September.
15 A division in the Spartan army.
16 Who in full force had joined the Persians.
17 The rack.