This most popular novel and thrilling story of early frontier life in Kentucky was originally published in the year 1837.  The novel, long out of print, had in its day a phenomenal sale, for its realistic presentation of Indian and frontier life in the early days of settlement in the South, narrated in the tale with all the art of a practiced writer.  A very charming love romance runs through the story.  This new and tasteful edition of “Nick of the Woods” will be certain to make many new admirers for this enchanting story from Dr. Bird’s clever and versatile pen.

GUY FAWKES.  A Romance of the Gunpowder Treason.  By Wm. Harrison Ainsworth.  Cloth, 12mo. with four illustrations by George Cruikshank.  Price, $1.00.

The “Gunpowder Plot” was a modest attempt to blow up Parliament, the King and his Counsellors.  James of Scotland, then King of England, was weak-minded and extravagant.  He hit upon the efficient scheme of extorting money from the people by imposing taxes on the Catholics.  In their natural resentment to this extortion, a handful of bold spirits concluded to overthrow the government.  Finally the plotters were arrested, and the King put to torture Guy Fawkes and the other prisoners with royal vigor.  A very intense love story runs through the entire romance.

TICONDEROGA:  A Story of Early Frontier Life in the Mohawk Valley.  By G.P.R.  James.  Cloth, 12mo. with four page illustrations by J. Watson Davis.  Price, $1.00.

The setting of the story is decidedly more picturesque than any ever evolved by Cooper:  The frontier of New York State, where dwelt an English gentleman, driven from his native home by grief over the loss of his wife, with a son and daughter.  Thither, brought by the exigencies of war, comes an English officer, who is readily recognized as that Lord Howe who met his death at Ticonderoga.  As a most natural sequence, even amid the hostile demonstrations of both French and Indians, Lord Howe and the young girl find time to make most deliciously sweet love, and the son of the recluse has already lost his heart to the daughter of a great sachem, a dusky maiden whose warrior-father has surrounded her with all the comforts of a civilized life.

The character of Captain Brooks, who voluntarily decides to sacrifice his own life in order to save the son of the Englishman, is not among the least of the attractions of this story, which holds the attention of the reader even to the last page.  The tribal laws and folk lore of the different tribes of Indians known as the “Five Nations,” with which the story is interspersed, shows that the author gave no small amount of study to the work in question, and nowhere else is it shown more plainly than by the skilful manner in which he has interwoven with his plot the “blood” law, which demands a life for a life, whether it be that of the murderer or one of his race.

     A more charming story of mingled love and adventure has never been
     written than “Ticonderoga.”