Text extracted from opening pages of book: A, GUIDE TO BRITISH AND AMERICAN NOVELS BEING A COMPREHENSIVE MANUAL OF ALL FORMS OF POPULAR FICTION IN GREAT BRITAIN, AUSTRALASIA, AND AMERICA FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT DOWN TO 1894 BY PERCY RUSSELL AUTHOR OK THE AUTHORS* MANUAL, A JOURNEY TO LAKE TAUPO; AUSTRALIAN TALES, BTC* SJBCOND EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED LONDON DIGBY, LONG & CO., PUBLISHERS 18 BOUVERIE STREET, FLEET STREET, E. C. 1895 CONTENTS CHAITBK PAGE I. A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOP MENT OF THE NOVEL i II. A SUGGESTED HISTORICAL COURSE OF NOVEL READING 15 III. THE HISTORICAL NOVEL FURTHER CONSIDERED 26 IV. MILITARY NOVELS 51 V. NAVAL AND NAUTICAL NOVELS 59 VI. POLITICAL NOVELS 70 VII. SCOTCH AND IRISH NOVELS 78 VIII. COMIC AND HUMOROUS NOVELS 88 IX. SENSATIONAL NOVELS 108 X. OCCULT NOVELS AND NOVELS OP ADVENTURE 118 XI. POPULAR NOVELS OF THE PAST, WITH RE MARKS ON SOME OF THE PRESENT … 142 XII. RELIGIOUS NOVELS, 197 XIII. NOVELS OF BUSINESS LIFE 214 XIV, NOVELS OF SCHOOL AND COLLEGE LIFE, AND FICTION FOR THIS YOUNG az