MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, Etc. 5 



THE STORY OF DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA. 



By Padre Luis Coloma, S.J., of the Real Academia Espanola. 

 Translated by Lady Moreton. With Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 

 165. net. 



*4f* " A new type of book, half novel and half history," as it is very aptly 

 called in a discourse delivered on the occasion of Padre Cbloma's election to the 

 Academia de Espana, the story of the heroic son of Charles V. is retold by one ol 

 Spain's greatest living writers with a vividness and charm all his own. The 

 childhood of Jeromin, afterwards Don John of Austria reads like a mysterious 

 romance. His meteoric career is traced through the remaining chapters ol the 

 book ; first as ttie attractive youth ; the cynosure of all eyes that were bright and 

 gay at the court of Philip II., which Padre Coloma maintains was less austere 

 than is usually supposed ; then as conqueror of the Moors, culminatingas the 

 "man front God" who saved Europe from the terrible peril of a Turkish 

 dominion ; triumphs in Tunis ; glimpses of life in the luxury loving Italy of the 

 day; then the sad story ol the war in the Netherlands, when our hero, victim 

 of an infamous conspiracy, is left to die of a broken heart ; his end hastened by 

 lever, and, maybe, by the "broth of Doctor Ramirez.' Perhaps more fully than 

 ever before is laid bate the intrigue which led to the cruel death of the secretary, 

 Escovedo, including the dramatic interview between Philip II. and Antonio 

 Perez, in the lumber room of tlie Esconal. A minute account of the celebrated 

 auto da fe in Valladolid cannot fail to arrest attention, nor will the details of 

 several of the imposing ceremonies of Old Spain be less welcome than those of 

 more intimate festivities in the Madrid of the sixteenth century, or of everyday 

 life in a Spanish castle. 



%* "This book has all the fascination of a vigorous rotnan a clef . . . the 

 translation is vigorous and idiomatic."— ^r. Owen Edwards in Morning Post 



THIRTEEN YEARS OF A BUSY WOMAN'S 



LIFE. By Mrs. Alec Tweedie. With Nineteen Illustrations. 

 Demy 8vo. i6s. net. Third Edition. 



^f*,f It is a novel idea for an author to give her reasons for taking up her pen 

 as a journalist and u'riter of books. This Mrs. Alec Tweedie has done in 

 "Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life." She tells a dramatic storv of youthful 

 happiness, health, wealth, and then contrasts that life with the thirteen years of 

 hard work that followed the loss of her husband, her father, and her income in 

 quick succession in a few weeks. Mrs. Alec Tweedie's books of travel and 

 biography are well-known, and have been through many editions, even to shilling 

 copies for the bookstalls. This is hardly an autobiography, the author is too 

 young for that, but it gives romantic, and tragic peeps into the life of a woman 

 reared in luxury, who suddenly found herself obliged to live on a tiny income 

 with two small children, or work— and work hard— to retain something of her old 

 life and interests. It is a remarkable story with many personal sketches of some 

 of the best-known men and women of the day. 



^*^ "One of the gayest and sanest surveys of English society we have read 

 for years." — Pall Mall Gazette. 



4(.% "A pleasant laugh from cover to cover."— Dai/;' Chronicle. 



THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH IN THE 



XVIIth century. By Charles Bastide. With Illustrations. 

 Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net. 



.«f% The author of this book of essays on the intercourse between England 

 and France in the seventeenth century has gathered much curious and little- 

 known information. How did the travellers proceed from London to Paris? Did 

 the Frenchmen who came ovei- to EngUnd learn, and did they ever venture 

 to write English? An almost unqualified admiration for everything French then 

 prevailed : French tailors, milliners, cooks, even fortune-tellers, as well as writers 

 and actiesses. reigned supreme. How far did gallomania afi'ect the relations 

 between the two countries ? Among the foreigners who settled in England none 

 exercised such varied influence as the Hugeiiots ; students of Shakespeare and 

 Milton can no longer ignore the Hugenot friends of the two poets, historians of 

 the Commonwealth must take into account the "Nouvelles ordinaires de 

 Londres."' the French gazette, issued on the Puritan side, by some enterprising 

 refugee. Is it then possible to determine how deeplv the refugees impressed 

 English thought? Such are the main questions to which the book affords an 

 answer. With its numerous hitherto unpublished documents and illustrations, 

 drawn from contemporary sources, it cannot fail to interest those to whom a most 

 brilliant and romantic period in English history must necessarily appeal. 



