MY LADY ROTHA.

A ROMANCE OF THE THIRTY YEARS’? WAR.
By STANLEY J. WEYMAN.

AUTHOR OF ‘*A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE,” ‘UNDER THE RED ROBE,”
‘THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF.”

With Eight Illustrations. Crown Svo, $1.25.

“ Few writers of fiction who have appeared in England in the last decade have given
their readers more satisfaction than Mr. Stanley J. Weyman, and no single writer of this
number can be said to have approached him, much less to have equaled him in the romantic
world of the historical novel . . . he has the art of story-telling in the highest degree,
the art which instinctively divines the secret, the soul of the story which he tells, and the
rarer art, ifit be not the artlessness, which makes it as real and as inevitable as life itself,
His characters are alive, human, unforgetable, resembling in this respect those of Thackeray
in historical lines and in a measure those of Dumas, with whom, and not inaptly, Mr. Wey-
man has been compared. His literature is good, so good that we accept itas a matter of
course, as we do that of Thackeray and Scott. . . . Mr. Weyman’s historical novels
will live.’ —New York Marv anv Express.

“4. differs signally from Mr. Weyman’s earlier published works. It is treated
with the minuteness and lovingness of a first story which has grown up in the mind of the
author for years. . . . Marie Wort is one of the bravest souls that ever moved quietly
along the pages ofa novel. She is so unlike the other feminine characters whom Weyman
has drawn that the diffcrence is striking and adds significance to this one book. . . .
‘ My Lady Rotha’ is full of fascinating interest, all the more remarkable in a work adhering
so strictly to historical truth.’—Eventnc Post, Cuicaco.

“This last book of his is brimful of action, rushing forward with a roar, leaving the
reader breathless at the close; for if once begun there is no stopping place. ‘Ihe concep-
tion is unique and striking, and the culmination unexpected. The author is so saturated
with the spirit of the times of which he writes, that he merges his personality in that of the
supposititious narrator, and the virtues and failings of his men and women are set forth in a
fashion which is captivating from its very simplicity. It is one of his best novels.”

—Pustic Orrnion.

**Readers of Mr. \Veyman's novels will have no hesitation in pronouncing his just pub-
lished ‘My Lady Rotha’ in every way his greatest and most artistic production. We
know of nothing more fit, both in conception and execution, to be classed with the immortal
Waverleys than this his latest work. . . . A story true to life and true to the times
which Mr. Weyman has made such a careful study.” —THe ADVERTISER, BOSTON.

‘No one of Mr. Weyman’s books is better than ‘ My Lady Rotha’ unless it be ‘ Under
the Red Robe,’.and those who have learned to like his stories of the old days when might
made right will appreciate it thoroughly. It is a good book to read and read again.”

‘ —New York Wortp.

©. . . As good a tale of adventure as any one need ask ; the picture of those war-
like times is an excellent one, full of life and color, the blare of trumpets and the flash of
steel—and toward the close the description of the besieged city of Nuremberg and of the
battle under Wallenstein’s entrenchments is masterly.”—BosTon TRAVELLER.

“The loveliest and most admirable character in the story is that of a young Catholic girl,
while in painting the cruelties and savage barbarities of war at that period the brush is held
by an impartial hand. Books of adventure and romance are apt to be cheap and sensational,’
Mr. Weyman’s stories are worth tons of such stuff. They are thrilling, exciting, absorbing,
interesting, and yet clear, strong, and healthy in tone, written by a gentleman and a man of
sense and taste.”—Sacrep Heart Review, Bosron.

‘*Mr. Weyman has outdone himself in this remarkable book. . . . The whole story
is told with consummate skill. The plot is artistically devised and enrolled before the read-
er’s eyes. The language is simple and apt, and the descriptions are graphic and terse. The
charm of the story takes hold of the reader on the very first page, and holds him spell-bound
to the very end.”—Nerw Or-EANS Picavunr.

 

 

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