Excerpt from A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales It has been very gratifying to learn that the Guide has continued to sell regularly through all the seven years which have elapsed since it appeared in its third life-stage at the beginning of 1904; and this, in spite of competition in two new quarters. The much longer pause in republication (the last edition was by far the largest) has enabled me to effect what I regarded in the first instance as an impossible ideal; for, besides bringing my lists up to date ...
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Excerpt from A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales It has been very gratifying to learn that the Guide has continued to sell regularly through all the seven years which have elapsed since it appeared in its third life-stage at the beginning of 1904; and this, in spite of competition in two new quarters. The much longer pause in republication (the last edition was by far the largest) has enabled me to effect what I regarded in the first instance as an impossible ideal; for, besides bringing my lists up to date through the entry of new books, I have once again gone over old ground, and have sought to include all those novels and tales which ignorance or ill-consideration caused 'me to omit in previous editions. And, let it be stated here that, in rectifying former omissions, I have not gone to workers in the same field of Bibliography and stolen their honey but I have, throughout, taken an independent line. Hence, although, in the Supple ment now added, there are descriptive notes on several hundred novels and tales which appeared before the 'publi cation of Mr. Bowen's Catalogue of Historical Novels (second edition) and of Dr. Baker's History in Fiction, not one of these notes is based upon the particulars furnished in either work. Wherever possible, I have obtained my infor mation from w actual novel or tale described. Four years ago (vide Dr. Baker's kindly allusion in the Preface to his admirable work just named), it was hinted that the Guide was somewhat lacking in its degree of com prehensiveness such a criticism could scarcely be maintained now. If there is still exclusion to some extent, there is (fourth edition) inclusion to a very much larger extent. I have allowed the utmost elasticity in my later decisions as to his torical qualification. How comprehensive has been my selection, may be judged from the fact that, while in my enlarged third edition the annotated lists covered between twelve and thirteen hundred novels and tales, I have now passed under review about seventeen hundred more. In the total of nearly three thousand novels and tales thus reached, over two thousand are not to be found in Mr. Bowen's catalogue, and some thirteen hundred are absent from Dr. Baker's lists. Comprehensiveness alone, however, would be a poor advantage, and I believe that, in its present form, besides being the largest bibliography of its kind, the Guide is also the most accurate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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