HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. 



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XXI. 



MEMOIRS OF LADY FANSHA.WE. 

 Written by Herself. With Extracts from the 

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XXII. 



CONVERSATIONS OF JAMES NORTH- 

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 In 1 vol. post 8vo. with a fine Portrait of Mr. 

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XXIII. 



SIR JONAH BARRINGTON'S HISTORIC 

 MEMOIRS of IRELAND, with Secret Anec- 

 dotes of the Union: illustrated by Delinea- 

 tions of the principal characters connected 

 with those Transactions, curious Letters and 

 Papers in fac-simile, and above 40 original 

 Portraits, engraved by the elder Heath. 



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 which was commenced some years since, but 

 suspended by unavoidable circumstances, is 

 nearly completed in 2 vols, quarto, or in 10 

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XXIV. 



PERSONAL SKETCHES OF HIS OWN 

 TIMES. By Sir Jonah Barrington. Being 

 his own individual Recollections of distin- 

 guished Personages, Remarkable Events, High 

 Life, and Irish Manners, for the last Fifty years. 

 New edition, with considerable additions. In 

 2 vols. 8vo. 21s. 



XXV. 



RETROSPECTIONS OF THE STAGE. 



By the late Manager, Mr. John Bernard, 

 formerly Secretary to the Beef Steak Club. 

 Edited by his Son, William Bailie Bernard. 



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XXVI. 



The LIFE of DR. EDMUND CALAMY. 



Written by Himself. Now first printed from 

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XXVII. 



PRIVATE MEMOIRS of the COURT of 

 LOUIS XVIII. By the Duchess Du Cayla. 

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XXVIII. 



MUSICAL MEMOIRS. Comprising an Ac- 

 count of the General State of Music in Eng- 

 land, from the first Commemoration of Handel, 

 in 1784, to the year 1830, copiously inter- 

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XXIX. 



THE GARRICK PAPERS, 

 Nearly ready, in 1 volume. 



The PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE of 

 DAVID GARRICK, with the most cele- 

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 the Originals, lately in possession of the Exe- 

 cutors of Mrs. Garrick. 



This highly interesting and important work 

 will comprise upwards of two thousand Letters, 

 from persons of the greatest eminence in the 

 political, literary, and dramatic world. Among 

 other names may be mentioned Lord Chatham 

 — Lord Camden — Duke of Devonshire — 

 Countess Spencer — Lord Lyttelton — Lord Pem- 

 broke, and the leading nobility of Garrick's 

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 Gibbon— Sir Joshua Reynolds— Goldsmith — 



