Volume II Part 49 (2/2)

4 vols., post 8vo, with Ill.u.s.trations, 10s. 6d. each, bound.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

”A most agreeable book. The auth.o.r.ess, already favourably known to the learned world by her excellent collection of 'Letters of Royal and Ill.u.s.trious Ladies,' has executed her task with great skill and fidelity. Every page displays careful research and accuracy. There is a graceful combination of sound, historical erudition, with an air of romance and adventure that is highly pleasing, and renders the work at once an agreeable companion of the boudoir, and a valuable addition to the historical library. Mrs. Green has entered upon an untrodden path, and gives to her biographies an air of freshness and novelty very alluring. The first two volumes (including the Lives of twenty-five Princesses) carry us from the daughters of the Conqueror to the family of Edward I.--a highly interesting period, replete with curious ill.u.s.trations of the genius and manners of the Middle Ages. Such works, from the truthfulness of their spirit, furnish a more lively picture of the times than even the graphic, though delusive, pencil of Scott and James.”--_Britannia._

”The vast utility of the task undertaken by the gifted author of this interesting book can only be equalled by the skill, ingenuity, and research displayed in its accomplishment. The field Mrs. Green has selected is an untrodden one. Mrs. Green, on giving to the world a work which will enable us to arrive at a correct idea of the private histories and personal characters of the royal ladies of England, has done sufficient to ent.i.tle her to the respect and grat.i.tude of the country. The labour of her task was exceedingly great, involving researches, not only into English records and chronicles, but into those of almost every civilised country in Europe. The style of Mrs. Green is admirable. She has a fine perception of character and manners, a penetrating spirit of observation, and singular exactness of judgment.

The memoirs are richly fraught with the spirit of romantic adventure.”--_Morning Post._

”This work is a worthy companion to Miss Strickland's admirable 'Queens of England.' In one respect the subject-matter of these volumes is more interesting, because it is more diversified than that of the 'Queens of England.' That celebrated work, although its heroines were, for the most part, foreign Princesses, related almost entirely to the history of this country. The Princesses of England, on the contrary, are themselves English, but their lives are nearly all connected with foreign nations.

Their biographies, consequently, afford us a glimpse of the manners and customs of the chief European kingdoms, a circ.u.mstance which not only gives to the work the charm of variety, but which is likely to render it peculiarly useful to the general reader, as it links together by a.s.sociation the contemporaneous history of various nations. The histories are related with an earnest simplicity and copious explicitness. The reader is informed without being wearied, and alternately enlivened by some spirited description, or touched by some pathetic or tender episode. We cordially commend Mrs. Everett Green's production to general attention; it is (necessarily) as useful as history, and fully as entertaining as romance.”--_Sun._

THE LIFE AND REIGN OF CHARLES I.

By I. DISRAELI.

A NEW EDITION. REVISED BY THE AUTHOR, AND EDITED BY HIS SON, THE RT.

HON. B. DISRAELI, M.P.

2 vols., 8vo, uniform with the ”Curiosities of Literature,” 28s. bound.

”By far the most important work on the important age of Charles I. that modern times have produced.”--_Quarterly Review._

MEMOIRS OF HORACE WALPOLE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES,

INCLUDING NUMEROUS ORIGINAL LETTERS, FROM STRAWBERRY HILL.

EDITED BY ELIOT WARBURTON.

2 vols. 8vo, with Portraits, 16s. bound.

Perhaps no name of modern times is productive of so many pleasant a.s.sociations as that of ”Horace Walpole,” and certainly no name was ever more intimately connected with so many different subjects of importance in connexion with Literature, Art, Fas.h.i.+on, and Politics. The position of various members of his family connecting Horace Walpole with the Cabinet, the Court, and the Legislature--his own intercourse with those characters who became remarkable for brilliant social and intellectual qualities--and his reputation as a Wit, a Scholar, and a Virtuoso, cannot fail to render his Memoirs equally amusing and instructive. They nearly complete the chain of mixed personal, political, and literary history, commencing with ”Evelyn” and ”Pepys,” carried forward by ”Swift's Journal and Correspondence,” and ending almost in our own day with the histories of Mr. Macaulay and Lord Mahon.

”These Memoirs form a necessary addition to the library of every English gentleman. Besides its historical value, which is very considerable, the work cannot be estimated too highly as a book of mere amus.e.m.e.nt.”--_Standard._

MADAME PULSZKY'S MEMOIRS.

Comprising Full and Interesting Details of THE LATE EVENTS IN HUNGARY.

With an Historical Introduction by FRANCIS PULSZKY, late Under-Secretary of State to Ferdinand, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. 2 vols., post 8vo, 21s bound.

THE DIARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE EARLS OF CLARENDON AND ROCHESTER;

Comprising important Particulars of the Revolution, &c.

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