Talk:My Lady of Orange
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| Information about this edition | |
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| Edition: | Longmans, Green, & Co., London, NY, Bombay |
| Source: | https://archive.org/details/myladyoforange00bailiala |
| Notes: | Advertisement pages may be omitted |
Reviews[edit]
- The Outlook, June 1901:
- Although this story deals with one of the most dire episodes in history—Alva's grip on the Netherlands—its very excess of adventure makes it rollicking rather than dolorous of tone. The hero, a young Englishman, has served a short time under Alva; he leaves and joins the fortunes of William the Silent. The story turns upon his seeking an interview with Alva, making a compact to deliver up the town of Breuth for a certain sum of money, and the return with him of the daughter of the Governor of that town, just then captured by the Spaniards and in Alva's camp. How he decoys the Spaniards, slaughters them, pays his starving soldiers with the money, joins William, and finally marries the Governor's daughter, is the burden of the story.