Chapter XXV: Sir Harry and Lady Marryott (2)

Moll Cutpurse, whose real name was Mary Frith, a shoemaker's daughter, born probably in 1584, is described by her biographer as in her girlhood a "very tomrig or rumpscuttle" who "delighted and sported only in boy's plays and costume." She was put to domestic service, but her calling lay not in tending children. She donned man's attire and found true outlet for her talents as a "bully, pick-purse, fortune-teller, receiver, and forger." She is the heroine of Middleton and Dekker's breezy comedy, "The Roaring Girl" (1611), and of a work thus entered on the Stationers' Register in August, 1610: "A Booke called the Madde Prancks of Merry Mall of the Bankside, with her walkes in Man's Apparel, and to what purpose. Written by John Day." Her career is set forth in the very interesting "Lives of Twelve Bad Women," recently published in a beautiful edition.

NOTE 29. (Page 314.)

The use of firearms was slow work in the earlier centuries. Concerning the wheel-lock, invented in 1515, at Nuremburg, Greener says: "When ready for firing, the wheel was wound up, the flash-pan lid pushed back, and the pyrites held in the cock allowed to come in contact with the wheel. By pressure on the trigger a stop was drawn back out of the wheel, and the latter, turning round its pivot at considerable speed, produced sparks by the friction against the pyrites, and thus ignited the priming." "We find the greater portion of the pistols of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries fitted with wheel-locks." Wheel-locks being expensive, the old match-locks, as a rule, were still fitted to the longer firearms, such as the arquebus, of which Greener says: "The slow match is kept burning in a holder on the top of the barrel; the flash-pan and touch-hole are at the side. The serpentine is hung upon a pivot passing through the stock, and continued past the pivot, forming a lever for the hand. To discharge the piece, the match in the serpentine is first brought into contact with the burning match on the barrel until ignited; then by raising the lever and moving it to one side, the serpentine is brought into the priming in the touch-hole, and the gun discharged,--though it is highly probable that the first arquebuses did not carry the fire in a holder on the barrel, but only the match in the serpentine." "All the early firearms were so slow to load, that, as late as the battle of Kuisyingen in 1636, the slowest soldiers managed to fire seven shots only during eight hours."

NOTE 30. (Page 374.)

In London the playhouses were allowed to be open in Lent on all days but sermon days,--Wednesday and Friday. In 1601, Lent began February 25th; Easter Sunday was April 12th. The historical year--conforming to our present calendar--is here meant. The civil year then began March 25th.

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=An Enemy to the King.= (_Twentieth Thousand._)

From the Recently Discovered Memoirs of the Sieur de la Tournoire. By
ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS. Illustrated by H. De M. Young.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth =$1.25=

"Brilliant as a play; it is equally brilliant as a romantic
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"Those who love chivalry, fighting, and intrigue will find it, and
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=The Continental Dragoon.= (_Eighteenth Thousand._)

A Romance of Philipse Manor House, in 1778. By ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS,
author of "An Enemy to the King." Illustrated by H. C. Edwards.
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"It has the sterling qualities of strong dramatic writing, and
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soldier, a man who is a man, a hero who is a hero, is one of the
most captivating of Mr. Stephens's charms of manner and
style."--_Boston Herald._

=The Road to Paris.= (_Sixteenth Thousand._)

By ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS, author of "An Enemy to the King," "The
Continental Dragoon," etc. Illustrated by H. C. Edwards.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth =$1.50=

"Vivid and picturesque in style, well conceived and full of action,
the novel is absorbing from cover to cover."--_Philadelphia Public
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"In the line of historical romance, few books of the season will
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=A Gentleman Player.=

His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth. By ROBERT
NEILSON STEPHENS, author of "An Enemy to the King," "The Continental
Dragoon," "The Road to Paris," etc. Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth, 450 pages =$1.50=

"A Gentleman Player" is a romance of the Elizabethan period. It
relates the story of a young gentleman who, in the reign of
Elizabeth, falls so low in his fortune that he joins Shakespeare's
company of players, and becomes a friend and protege of the great
poet. Throughout the course of his adventures the hero makes use of
his art as an actor and his skill as a swordsman, and the
denouement of the plot is brought about by means of a performance
by Shakespeare's company of a play in an inn yard.

=Rose a Charlitte.= (_Eighth Thousand._)

An Acadien Romance. By MARSHALL SAUNDERS, author of "Beautiful Joe,"
etc. Illustrated by H. De M. Young.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth =$1.50=

"A very fine novel we unhesitatingly pronounce it ... one of the
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=Deficient Saints.=

A Tale of Maine. By MARSHALL SAUNDERS, author of "Rose a Charlitte,"
"Beautiful Joe," etc. Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth, 400 pages =$1.50=

In this story Marshall Saunders follows closely the fortunes of a
French family whose history is bound up with that of the old
Pine-tree State. These French people become less and less French
until, at last, they are Americans, intensely loyal to their State
and their country. Although "Deficient Saints" is by no means a
historical novel, frequent references are made to the early
romantic history of Maine.

=Her Sailor.= (_In Press._)

A Novel. By MARSHALL SAUNDERS, author of "Rose a Charlitte," "Beautiful
Joe," etc. Illustrated.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth, 250 pages =$1.25=

A story of modern life of great charm and pathos, dealing with the
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=Midst the Wild Carpathians.=

By MAURUS JOKAI, author of "Black Diamonds." "The Lion of Janina," etc.
Authorized translation by R. Nisbet Bain. Illustrated by J. W. Kennedy.
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=Pretty Michal.=

A Romance of Hungary. By MAURUS JOKAI, author of "Black Diamonds," "The
Green Book," "Midst the Wild Carpathians," etc. Authorized translation
by R. Nisbet Bain. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece of the
great Magyar writer.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth decorative, 325 pages =$1.50=

"It is at once a spirited tale of 'border chivalry,' a charming
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a country and at a period both equally new to English
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=In Kings' Houses.=

A Romance of the Reign of Queen Anne. By JULIA C. R. DORR, author of "A
Cathedral Pilgrimage," etc. Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth =$1.50=

"We close the book with a wish that the author may write more
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well."--_Bookman, New York._

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charming simple art."--_Philadelphia Public Ledger._

=Manders.=

A Tale of Paris. By ELWYN BARRON. Illustrated.
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A Romance. By WILSON BARRETT, author of "The Sign of the Cross," etc.,
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A historical romance of great vigor and interest. The collaboration
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=Omar the Tentmaker.=

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"A powerful romance of love, intrigue, and adventure in the time of
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An exceedingly well written romance, dealing with the romantic
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=Cross Trails.=

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=Bijli the Dancer.=

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=Drives and Puts.=

A Book of Golf Stories. By WALTER CAMP and LILLIAN BROOKS. Illustrated.
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Considering the great and growing interest in golf,--perhaps the
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known writer of short stories, is sure to be a success.

="To Arms!"=

Being Some Passages from the Early Life of Allan Oliphant, Chirurgeon,
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BALFOUR. Illustrated by F. W. Glover.
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"A recital of thrilling interest, told with unflagging
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"An unusually excellent example of a semi-historic
romance."--_World._

=The River of Pearls=; OR, THE RED SPIDER.

(_In Press._) A Chinese Romance. By RENE DE PONT-JEST, with sixty
illustrations from original drawings by Felix Regamey.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth, 300 pages =$1.50=

Close acquaintance with the manners and customs of the Chinese has
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Regamey.

The book may be read with profit by any one who wishes to realize
the actual condition of native life in China.

=Frivolities.=

Especially Addressed to Those who are Tired of being Serious. By
RICHARD MARSH, author of "Tom Ossington's Ghost," etc.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth, 340 pages =$1.50=

A dozen stories in an entirely new vein for Mr. Marsh. The humor is
irresistible, and carries the reader on breathlessly from one laugh
to another. The style, though appealing to a totally different side
of complex human nature, is as strong and effective as the author's
intense and dramatic work in "Tom Ossington's Ghost."

=Via Lucis.=

By KASSANDRA VIVARIA. With portrait of the author.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth =$1.50=

"'Via Lucis' is--we say it unhesitatingly--a striking and
interesting production."--_London Athenaeum._

"Without doubt the most notable novel of the summer is this strong
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the cool, shaded patios and the flame of the pomegranate blossom,
and smell the perfume of the grapes growing on the hillsides. It is
a story of deep and passionate heart interests, of fierce loves and
fiercer hates, of undisciplined natures that work out their own
bitter destiny of woe. There has hardly been a finer piece of
portraiture than that of the child Arduina,--the child of a sickly
and unloved mother and a cruel and vindictive father,--a morbid,
queer, lonely little creature, who is left to grow up without love
or training of any kind."--_New Orleans Picayune._

=Lally of the Brigade.=

A Romance of the Irish Brigade in France during the Time of Louis the
Fourteenth. By L. MCMANUS, author of "The Silk of the Kine," "The Red
Star," etc. Illustrated.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth, 250 pages =$1.25=

The scene of this romance is partly at the siege of Crimona (held
by the troops of Louis XIV.) by the Austrian forces under Prince
Eugene. During the siege the famous Irish Brigade renders valiant
service, and the hero--a dashing young Irishman--is in the thick of
the fighting. He is also able to give efficient service in
unravelling a political intrigue, in which the love affairs of the
hero and the heroine are interwoven.

=Sons of Adversity.=

A Romance of Queen Elizabeth's Time. By L. COPE CORNFORD, author of
"Captain Jacobus," etc. Illustrated by J. W. Kennedy.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth =$1.25=

"A tale of adventure on land and sea at the time when Protestant
England and Catholic Spain were struggling for naval supremacy.
Spanish conspiracies against the peace of good Queen Bess, a vivid
description of the raise of the Spanish siege of Leyden by the
combined Dutch and English forces, sea fights, the recovery of
stolen treasure, are all skilfully woven elements in a plot of
unusual strength."--_Pittsburg Bulletin._

=The Archbishop's Unguarded Moment.=

By OSCAR FAY ADAMS. Illustrated.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth decorative =$1.25=

Mr. Adams is well known as a writer of short stories. As the title
indicates, these stories deal with dignitaries of the Episcopal
Church. The mingled pathos and humor, which Mr. Adams has handled
so admirably in describing his characters, make a book of more than
average interest for the reader of fiction.

=Captain Fracasse.=

Translated from the French of Gautier. By ELLEN MURRAY BEAM.
Illustrated by Victor A. Searles.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth =$1.25=

"The story is one of the best in romantic fiction, for upon it
Gautier lavished his rare knowledge of the twelfth century."--_San
Francisco Chronicle._

"One of those rare stories in which vitality is abundant."--_New
York Herald._

=The Count of Nideck.=

From the French of Erckmann-Chatrian, translated and adapted by RALPH
BROWNING FISKE. Illustrated by Victor A. Searles.
1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth =$1.25=

"'The Count of Nideck,' adapted from the French of
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tale, simply told, and moving with direct force to the end in
view."--_Minneapolis Times._

"Rapid in movement, it abounds in dramatic incident, furnishes
graphic descriptions of the locality and is enlivened with a very
pretty love story."--_Troy Budget._

=Muriella=; OR, LE SELVE.

By OUIDA. Illustrated by M. B. Prendergast.
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"Ouida's literary style is almost perfect in 'Muriella.'"--_Chicago
Times-Herald._

"'Muriella' is an admirable example of the author's best
work."--_Brooklyn Times._

"It dwells in the memory, and bears the dramatic force, tragic
interest, and skilfulness of treatment that mark the work of Ouida
when at her best."--_Pittsburg Bulletin._

=Bobbie McDuff.=

By CLINTON ROSS, author of "The Scarlet Coat." "Zuleika," etc.
Illustrated by B. West Clinedinst.
1 vol., large 16mo, cloth =$1.00=

"'Bobbie McDuff,' by Clinton Ross, is a healthy romance, tersely
and vigorously told."--_Louisville Courier-Journal._

"It is full of mystery and as fascinating as a fairy tale."--_San
Francisco Chronicle._

"It is a well-written story, full of surprises and abounding in
vivid interest."--_The Congregationalist, Boston._

=The Shadow of a Crime.=

A Cumbrian Romance. By HALL CAINE, author of "The Manxman," "The
Deemster," etc., with twelve full-page illustrations in half-tone, from
drawings by M. B. Prendergast.
1 vol., cloth, illustrated, gilt top =$1.25=

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_The Works of Gabriel d'Annunzio._

=The Triumph of Death.= =The Intruder.= =The Maidens of the Rocks.= =The Child of Pleasure.= Each, 1 vol., lib. 12mo, cloth =$1.50=

"The writer of the greatest promise to-day in Italy, and perhaps
one of the most unique figures in contemporary literature, is
Gabriel d'Annunzio, the poet-novelist."--_The Bookman._

"This book is realistic. Some say that it is brutally so. But the
realism is that of Flaubert and not of Zola. There is no plain
speaking for the sake of plain speaking. Every detail is justified
in the fact that it illuminates either the motives or the actions
of the man and woman who here stand revealed. It is deadly true.
The author holds the mirror up to nature, and the reader, as he
sees his own experiences duplicated in passage after passage, has
something of the same sensation as all of us know on the first
reading of George Meredith's 'Egoist.' Reading these pages is like
being out in the country on a dark night in a storm. Suddenly a
flash of lightning comes and every detail of your surroundings is
revealed."--_Review of the Triumph of Death, in the New York
Evening Sun._

=Mademoiselle de Berny.=

A Story of Valley Forge. By PAULINE BRADFORD MACKIE. With five
full-page photogravures from drawings by Frank T. Merrill.
Printed on deckle-edged paper, with gilt top, and
bound in cloth. 272 pages =$1.50=

"The charm of 'Mademoiselle de Berny' lies in its singular
sweetness."--_Boston Herald._

"One of the very few choice American historical stories."--_Boston
Transcript._

"Real romance ... admirably written."--_Washington Post._

"A stirring romance, full of life and action from start to
finish."--_Toledo Daily Blade._

"Of the many romances in which Washington is made to figure, this
is one of the most fascinating, one of the best."--_Boston
Courier._

=Ye Lyttle Salem Maide.=

A Story of Witchcraft. By PAULINE BRADFORD MACKIE, with four full-page
photogravures from drawings by E. W. D. Hamilton.
Printed on deckle-edged paper, with gilt top, and
bound in cloth. 321 pages =$1.50=

A tale of the days of the reign of superstition in New England, and
of a brave "lyttle maide," of Salem Town, whose faith and hope and
unyielding adherence to her word of honor form the basis of a most
attractive story. Several historical characters are introduced,
including the Rev. Cotton Mather and Governor and Lady Phipps, and
a very convincing picture is drawn of Puritan life during the
latter part of the seventeenth century. An especial interest is
added to the book by the illustrations, reproduced by the
photogravure process from originals by E. W. D. Hamilton.

=In Guiana Wilds.=

A Study of Two Women. By JAMES RODWAY, author of "In the Guiana
Forest," etc. Illustrated.
1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, decorative cover, 250
pages =$1.25=

"In Guiana Wilds" may be described as an ethnological romance. A
typical young Scotchman becomes, by the force of circumstances,
decivilized, and mates with a native woman.

It is a psychological study of great power and ability.

=Vivian of Virginia.=

Being the Memoirs of Our First Rebellion, by John Vivian, Esq., of
Middle Plantation, Virginia. By HULBERT FULLER. With ten full-page
illustrations by Frank T. Merrill.
1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top, deckle-edge
paper =$1.50=

"A stirring and accurate account of the famous Bacon
rebellion."--_Los Angeles Sunday Times._

"We shall have to search far to find a better colonial story than
this."--_Denver Republican._

"A well-conceived, well-plotted romance, full of life and
adventure."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._

"A story abounding in exciting incidents and well-told
conversations."--_Boston Journal._

"Mr. Fuller will find a large circle of readers for his romance who
will not be disappointed in their pleasant expectations."--_Boston
Transcript._

"Instead of using history as a background for the exploits of the
hero, the author used the hero to bring out history and the
interesting events of those early days in Virginia. The author has
preserved the language and customs of the times
admirably."--_Philadelphia Telegram._

=The Gray House of the Quarries.=

By MARY HARRIOTT NORRIS. With a frontispiece etching by Edmund H.
Garrett.
1 vol., 8vo, cloth, 500 pages =$1.50=

"The peculiar genre, for which, in a literary sense, all must
acknowledge obligation to the author of a new type, is the
Dutch-American species. The church-goings, the courtings, the
pleasures and sorrows of a primitive people, their lives and
deaths, weddings, suicides, births and burials, are Rembrandt and
Rubens pictures on a fresh canvas."--_Boston Transcript._

"The fine ideal of womanhood in a person never once physically
described will gratify the highest tone of the period, and is an
ennobling conception."--_Time and The Hour, Boston._

=A Man-at-Arms.=

A Romance of the days of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Great Viper. By
CLINTON SCOLLARD, author of "Skenandoa," etc. With six full-page
illustrations and title-page by E. W. D. Hamilton.
1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top, deckle-edge
paper =$1.50=

The scene of the story is laid in Italy, in the latter part of the
fourteenth century. The hero, Luigi della Verria, unable to bear
the restrictions of home or to reconcile himself to the profession
of law, as desired by his father, leaves his family and, as the
result of chance, becomes a man-at-arms in the service of Gian
Galeazzo Visconti, the cunning and unscrupulous Lord of Pavia,
known as the Great Viper. Thenceforward the vicissitudes and
adventures, both in love and war, of Della Verria, are told in a
way to incite the interest to the highest point; and a strong
picture is drawn of Italian life at this period, with its petty
vendettas, family broils, and the unprincipled methods employed by
the heads of noble families to gain their personal ends.

An individual value is added to the book by the illustrations and
title-page, drawn by Mr. E. W. D. Hamilton.

"The style is admirable, simple, direct, fluent, and sometimes
eloquent; and the story moves with rapidity from start to
finish."--_The Bookman._

"A good story."--_N. Y. Commercial Advertiser._

"It is a triumph in style."--_Utica Herald._

=Cyrano de Bergerac.=

A Heroic Comedy from the French of Edmond Rostand, as accepted and
played by Richard Mansfield. Translated by HOWARD THAYER KINGSBURY.
1 vol., cloth decorative, with a photogravure frontispiece =$1.00=
1 vol., paper boards =.50=

The immediate and prolonged success of "Cyrano de Bergerac." in
Paris, has been paralleled by Mr. Mansfield's success with an
English version, dating from its first night at the Garden Theatre,
New York. October 3, 1898.

As a literary work, the original form of Rostand took high rank;
and the preference of Mr. Mansfield for Mr. Kingsbury's new
translation implies its superior merit.

Transcriber's Notes:

* Obvious punctuation and spelling errors repaired.

* Text enclosed between equal signs was in bold face in the
original (=bold=).

* Deleted a duplicate title named NOTES in Notes section.

* Several compound words had dual spellings: They were changed
for consistency's sake to the hyphenated form as follows:
Changed inn-keeper to innkeeper, alehouse to ale-house,
whereupon to where-upon, crossroad to cross-road, firewood to
fire-wood, inkhorn to ink-horn, nonconformity to non-conformity,
out-doors to outdoors. Gentle-woman was not changed to
gentlewoman as the dash was an end-of-page dash.

* Page 199: Added period to the end of Much Ado about Nothing.

* Advertisements, page 3: Changed single quote to double quote in
"The Road to Paris."

* Advertisements, page 14: Added opening quote to "It is a triumph
in style."

* Advertisements, page 14: Edward Rosstand corrected to Edmond Rostand.

End of Project Gutenberg's A Gentleman Player, by Robert Neilson Stephens

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