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Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Publisher: N.Y.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Yorkshire gentry in the last cen-tury; but its real interest lies in an episode which includes certain experiences of the notorious highwayman, DickTurpin, and his furious ride to outrun the hue and cry. SportingEngland was. enraptured with the dash and breathlessness of thisadventure, and the novelists fame was established. His second romance, ^Crichton,^ appeared in 1836. The hero ofthis tale is the brilliant Scottish gentleman whose handsome person,extraordinary scholarship, great accomplishments, courage, eloquence,subtlety, and achievement gained him the sobriquet of The Admira-ble.** The chief scenes are laid in Paris at the time of Catherine deMedicis rule and Henry III.s reign, when the air was full of intrigueand conspiracy, and when religious quarrels were not more bitter anddangerous than political wrangles. The inscrutable king, the devoutQueen Louise of Lorraine, the scheming queen-mother, and Margueriteof Valois, half saint, half profligate, a pearl of beauty and grace;
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Harrison Ainsworth 238 WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH Henry of Navarre, ready to buy his Paris with sword or mass; well-known great nobles, priests, astrologers, learned doctors, foreignpotentates, ambassadors, pilgrims, and poisoners,—pass before thereaders eye. The pictures of student life, at a time when all theworld swarmed to the great schools of Paris, serve to explain thehero and the period. When, in 1839, Dickens resigned the editorship of Bentleys Mis-cellany, Ainsworth succeeded him. ** The new whip,*> wrote the oldone afterward, ** having mounted the box, drove straight to Newgate.He there took in Jack Sheppard, and Cruikshank the artist; andaided by that very vulgar but very wonderful draughtsman, he madean effective story of the burglars and housebreakers life.^* Every-body read the story, and most persons cried out against so ignoble ahero, so mean a history, and so misdirected a literary energy. Theauthor himself seems not to have been proud of the success whichsold th

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