By Mark Twain

The Prince and the Pauper.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.

There are also historical stories more particularly intended by their authors for grown-up readers, but which boys and girls can, however, find quite interesting enough, even if much has to be skipped. First among these are Sir Walter Scott's novels:—

Ivanhoe.
Kenilworth.
Woodstock.
Quentin Durward.
Rob Roy.
The Abbott.
The Monastery.
The Talisman.

Other writers and books follow. By Alexandre Dumas—

The Three Musketeers.
Twenty Years After.
The Vicomte de Brageleonne.
Marguerite de Valois.
Chicot the Jester.
The Forty-five Guardsmen.

By Charles Dickens—

Barnaby Rudge.
A Tale of Two Cities.

By Lord Lytton—

Rienzi.
Harold.
The Last of the Barons.
The Last Days of Pompeii.