_ The Fifth of November
A Romance of the Stuarts By Charles S. Bentley and F. Kimball Scribner
"No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close
As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets,
The same look which she turn'd when he rose"
--Thomas Moore.
AUTHOR'S NOTE.
It has not been the intention of the authors of "The Fifth of November" to write an historical novel, though, throughout the story, they have endeavored to follow as closely as was consistent with the plot in hand, the historical facts collected by the various writers who have made the nature and workings of the "Gunpowder Plot" a special study. With one or two exceptions, the characters in the present romance have been borrowed from history, and, save in Chapters XXI and XXII, the lines of the story have followed those traced by the hand of the historian.
In presenting to the public this "Romance of the Stuarts," indebtedness is acknowledged by the writers to Professor S. R. Gardiner's "What the Gunpowder Plot Was," and also to the history of England as set forth by Knight, Hume, Froude and Ridpath.
THE AUTHORS.
New York, February, 1898. _