THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS. 



COMPLETE IN TWO VOLS. 



A JOURNAL OF THE REIGNS OF 



King George IV. & King William IV. 



By the Late CHAS. C. F. GREVILLE, Esq., 

 Clerk of the Council to those Sovereigns. 



Edited by HENRY REEVE, Registrar of the Privy Council. 



12mo. PRICE, $4.00. 



This edition contains the complete text as published in the three volumes 

 of the English edition. 



"The sensation created by these Memoirs, on their first appearance, was not out of 

 proportion to their real interest. They relate to a period of our history second only in 

 importance to the Revolution of 1688; they portray manners which have now disap- 

 peared from society, yet have disappeared so recently that middle-aged men can recol- 

 lect them ; and they concern the conduct of very eminent persons, of whom some are 

 still living, while of others the memory is so fresh that they still seem almost to be con- 

 temporaneous." The Academy. 



" Such Memoirs as these are the most interesting contributions to history that can 

 be made, and the most valuable as well. The man deserves gratitude from his pos- 

 terity who, being placed in the midst of events that have any importance, and of people 

 who bear any considerable part in them, sits down day by day and makes a record of 

 his observations." Buffalo Courier. 



" The Greville Memoirs, already in a third edition in London, in little more than 

 two months, have been republished by D. Appleton & Co., New York. The three 

 loosely-printed English volumes are here given in two, without the slightest abridg- 

 ment, and the price, which is nine dollars across the water, here is only four. It 

 is not too much to say that this work, though not so ambitious in its style as Horace 

 Walpole's well-known 'Correspondence,' is much more interesting. In a word, these 

 Greville Memoirs supply valuable materials not alone for political, but also for social 

 history during the time they cover. They are additionally attractive from the large 

 quantity of racy anecdotes which they contain." Philadelphia Press. 



" These are a few among many illustrations of the pleasant, gossipy information con- 

 veyed in these Memoirs, whose great charm is the free and straightforward manner in 

 which the writer chronicles his impressions of men and events." Boston Daily Globe. 



"As will be seen, these volumes are of remarkable interest, and fully justify the en- 

 comiums that heralded their appearance in this country. They will attract a large cir- 

 cle of readers here, who will find in their gossipy pages an almost inexhaustible fund of 

 instruction and amusement." Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. 



"Since the publication of Horace Walpole's Letters, no book of greater historical 

 interest has seen the light than the Greville Memoirs. It throws a curious, and, we 

 may almost say, a terrible light on the conduct and character of the public men in Eng- 

 land under the reigns of George IV. and William IV. Its descriptions of those kings 

 and their kinsfolk are never likely to be forgotten." N. Y. Times. 



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