I was careful, when dealing
with this question in my Introduction, to avoid making the test one
of actual historical accuracy, but there are, I have implied,
certain readily-verifiable personages and events which form a basis
amply sufficient for purposes of distinction. The pirates of
"Treasure Island" are taken (as Mr. Ford says) from actual figures
of the Eighteenth Century, but under my definition Stevenson's
novel is not thereby constituted "historical" in the strict sense.]
Article on "The Neo-Romantic Novel," by G. R. Carpenter, in The
Forum, March, 1898.
Article on "Historical Novels Past and Present," by Harold
Frederic, in The Bookman (American), December, 1898.
[An admirably-written, stimulating article.)
List of Historical Novels, &c., illustrating the Period 1066 to
1815, in the volume "Work and Play in Girls' Schools," by Dorothea
Beale, Lucy H. M. Soulsby, and Jane Frances Dove (Longmans, 1898).
"Le Roman Historique l'Epoque Romantique," by Louis Maigron
(Hachette et Cie., Paris, 1898).
[Contains a fine tribute to Scott, and much interesting matter.
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