FAMOUS AFFINITIES OF HISTORY

THE ROMANCE OF DEVOTION

Volumes 1-4, Complete

By Lyndon Orr

CONTENTS

THE STORY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

ABELARD AND HELOISE

QUEEN ELIZABETH AND THE EARL OF LEICESTER

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS AND LORD BOTHWELL

QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN AND THE MARQUIS MONALDESCHI

KING CHARLES II. AND NELL GWYN

MAURICE OF SAXONY AND ADRIENNE LECOUVREUR

THE STORY OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART

THE EMPRESS CATHARINE AND PRINCE POTEMKIN

MARIE ANTOINETTE AND COUNT FERSEN

THE STORY OF AARON BURR

GEORGE IV. AND MRS. FITZHERBERT

CHARLOTTE CORDAY AND ADAM LUX

NAPOLEON AND MARIE WALEWSKA

THE STORY OF PAULINE BONAPARTE

THE STORY OF THE EMPRESS MARIE LOUISE AND COUNT NEIPPERG

THE WIVES OF GENERAL HOUSTON

LOLA MONTEZ AND KING LUDWIG OF BAVARIA

LEON GAMBETTA AND LEONIE LEON

LADY BLESSINGTON AND COUNT D'ORSAY

BYRON AND THE COUNTESS GUICCIOLI

THE STORY OF MME. DE STAEL

THE STORY OF KARL MARX

FERDINAND LASSALLE AND HELENE VON DONNIGES

THE STORY OF RACHEL

DEAN SWIFT AND THE TWO ESTHERS

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY AND MARY GODWIN

THE STORY OF THE CARLYLES

THE STORY OF THE HUGOS

THE STORY OF GEORGE SAND

THE MYSTERY OF CHARLES DICKENS

HONORE DE BALZAC AND EVELINA HANSKA

CHARLES READE AND LAURA SEYMOUR

THE STORY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Of all love stories that are known to human history, the love story of Antony and Cleopatra has been for nineteen centuries the most remarkable. It has tasked the resources of the plastic and the graphic arts. It has been made the theme of poets and of prose narrators. It has appeared and reappeared in a thousand forms, and it appeals as much to the imagination to-day as it did when Antony deserted his almost victorious troops and hastened in a swift galley from Actium in pursuit of Cleopatra.

The wonder of the story is explained by its extraordinary nature. Many men in private life have lost fortune and fame for the love of woman. Kings have incurred the odium of their people, and have cared nothing for it in comparison with the joys of sense that come from the lingering caresses and clinging kisses. Cold-blooded statesmen, such as Parnell, have lost the leadership of their party and have gone down in