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New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 6, 11 February 1925, Page 42

< tChe» een een ?I*v »f E. Mv ' f.f.Hist.S. 6 /-• ■ A novel dealing with the life ,of Queen Elizabeth, as <• seep from the point of view of one of her maids of honor, <in which almost every character is historical, and most of } the sayings attributed to the dramatis persona are derived ; from contemporary records, is a fictional experiment of an “entirely new kind. i ... The phrase “historical novel” too often means nothing I more than that the book to which the title is applied deals ■> with the more or less remote past. It is “historical” only < because it is not professedly contemporary. c Miss Wilmot-Buxton thinks that actual historical per--5 sons and events can be presented in a novel which will be <no ,jyb|t. ; ießs interesting than a book of the hour dealing ! , < with entirely imaginary characters. The reader of this .J I book will agree that she has thoroughly proved her point. ]. ’ FuhUfhed by Burns, Oates and Washbourne, and to be oby |||psd from all Catholic booksellers in New Zealand.