A CATALOGUE OF 



MEMOIT^S, "BIOGRAPHIES, ETC. 



THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WILLIAM 



COBBETT IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA. By Lewis 

 Melville. Author of " William Makepeace Thackeray." With 

 two Photogravures and numerous other Illustrations. 2 vols. 

 Demy 8vo. 32s. net. 



THE LETTER-BAG OF LADY ELIZABETH 



SPENCER STANHOPE. By A. M. W. Stirling. Author 

 of "Coke of Norfolk," and ''Annals of a Yorkshire House." 

 With a Colour Plate, 3 in Photogravure, and 27 other 

 Illustrations. 2 vols. Demy 8vo. 32s. net. 



*** Extracts might be multiplied indefinitely, but we have given enough to 

 show the richness of the mine. We have nothing but praise for the editor's 

 work, and can conscientiously commend this book equally to the student of 

 manners and the lover of lively a.n&cd.ote."~St3.)tdarci. 



MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND 



IN 1675. By Marie Catherine Comtesse d'Aulnoy. Trans- 

 lated from the original French by Mrs. William Henry Arthur. 

 Edited, Revised, and with Annotations (including an account of 

 Lucy Walter) by George David Gilbert. With Illustrations. 

 Demy 8vo. 21s. net. 



J *** W'^®" ^^^ Comte de Gramont went back to France and Mr. Peovs 

 decided that to save his eyesight it was essential that he should suspend his 

 Diary, the records of delectable gossip of the ever interesting Restoration Court 

 became, of necessity sadly curtailed. Indeed, of the second decade of the 

 Golden Days the sedate hvelyn has hitherto been almost the only source ol 

 iniormation available to the public. Though the Memoirs of the Countess 

 dAulnoy have always been known to students, they have never received the 

 respect they undoubtedly merit, for until Mr. Gilbert, whose hobby is the social 

 history of this period, took the matter in hand, no-one had succeeded in either 

 deciphering the identity of the leading characters of the Memoirs or of verifyine 

 the statenients made therein. To achieve this has been for some years his labour 

 01 love and an unique contribution to Court and Domestic history is the crown ol 

 ins abours. The Memoirs, which have only to be known to rank with the 

 sparkling Comte de Gramont" (which they much resemble), contain amusine 

 anecdotes and vivid portraits of King Charles II., his son the Duke of Monmouth 

 Prince Rupert, Buckingham, and other ruffling "Hectors" of those romantic 

 days. Among-^ the ladies we notice the Queen, the Duchess of Norfolk and 

 Richmond, and the lively and vivacious Maids of Honour. The new Nell Gwvnn 

 matter is of particular interest. The Memoirs are fully illustrated with portraits 

 not reproduced before, from the collection of the Duke of Portland and others. ' 



AUSTRIA: HER PEOPLE AND THEIR 



HOMELANDS. By James Baker, F.R.G.S. With 48 Pictures 

 in Colour by Donald Maxwell. Demy 8vo, 2is.net. 



%* The Empire of Austria with its strangely diversified population of raanv 

 ongues IS but little known to, English readers. The Capital aSd a few famJui 

 interesting places, such as Carlsbad, Marienbad, the glorious Tyrol and su?h 

 bui^the' Sn f i' kP^^ ""*^ Innsbruck are known to thi English a^lmScaSs; 

 D.n.it ^"^^.•■kable scenery of the Upper Elbe, the Ultava or Moldau and the 

 ?or^^= ' interesting peasantry in their brilliant costumes, the wild mountain 

 gorges, are quite outside the ken of the ordinary traveller. The volume is 

 TnH h."« .^."Th"^ "" ^l"^^ 1873 has continually visited various parts of the Empire 

 and has already written much upon Austria and her peopled Mr Baker was 



also^nt^r/h ^^^'V^g^P^'T. Vr^J^ J°^^Ph *°'- his lit^erary work and wS 

 also voted the Great Silver Medal hy the Prague Senate. The volume is 

 Illustrated with 48 beautiful water-colour picture! by Mr. Donald Maxwellthl 



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