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A Bitter Heritage

By J. BLOUNDELLE-BURTON. ********* Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents. *********

A Bitter Heritage.

"Mr. Bloundelle-Burton is one of the most successful of the purveyors of historical romance who have started up in the wake of Stanley Weyman and Conan Doyle. He has a keen eye for the picturesque, a happy instinct for a dramatic (or more generally a melodramatic) situation, and he is apt and careful in his historic paraphernalia. He usually succeeds, therefore, in producing an effective story."--_Charleston News and Courier_.

Fortune's my Foe.

"The story moves briskly, and there is plenty of dramatic action."--_Philadelphia Telegraph_.

The Clash of Arms.

"Well written, and the interest is sustained from the beginning to the end of the tale."--_Brooklyn Eagle_.

"Vividness of detail and rare descriptive power give the story life and excitement."--_Boston Herald_.

Denounced.

"A story of the critical times of the vagrant and ambitious Charles I, it is so replete with incident and realistic happenings that one seems translated to the very scenes and days of that troublous era in English history."--_Boston Courier_.

The Scourge of God.

"The story is one of the best in style, construction, information, and graphic power, that have been written in recent years."--_Dial, Chicago_.

In the Day of Adversity.

"Mr. Burton's creative skill is of the kind which must fascinate those who revel in the narratives of Stevenson, Rider Haggard, and Stanley Weyman. Even the author of 'A Gentleman of France' has not surpassed the writer of 'In the Day of Adversity' in the moving interest of his tale."--_St. James's Gazette_.

*************** D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.

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