THE FAMILY LIBRARY. 21 



THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EICHAED I. 



SURNAMED C(EUR-DE-LION, KING OF ENGLAND. 



By WILLIAM E. AYTOUN, Author of " Bothwdl" a Poem. 



None of our monarchs has achieved a wider fame than 

 Co3ur-de-Lion, yet his personal history is of all others least 

 studied or understood. All men know that he rebelled 

 against his father, but comparatively few are aware of the 

 cause. All know that he conducted a crusade, and en- 

 countered Saladin ; but few are acquainted with the extent 

 of his conquests, or the causes which drove him back a 

 fugitive to Europe. No period of the romantic ages is more 

 interesting, or better entitled to a close examination. 



NAEEATIVES OF PEEIL AND SUFFEEINGL 



By E. A. DAVENPORT. 2 Vols. 



This wide field for the display of taste, talent, and general 

 acquaintance with the history of man in his social character, 

 has been occupied by Mr. Davenport, a veteran in elegant 

 literature ; and the popularity which his selections from the 

 children of sorrow has acquired, is equal to that of his most 

 successful labours. In collecting so many tales of woe and 

 of enterprise, the author disclaims the mere vanity of having 

 produced a work of amusement; he seeks to inculcate the 

 salutary lesson, " that there are few things that may not be 

 accomplished by perseverance and courage, accompanied by 

 self-command and presence of mind." 



THE LIFE OF BETJCE, 



THE AFRICAN TRAVELLER. 



By Major Sir FRANCIS B. HEAD, Author of "Rough Notes," $c. 

 Bruce's Travels, as originally published, occupy five quarto 

 volumes, mixed up with Abyssinian history, and speculations 

 on Egyptian mythology. The author has contrived to com- 

 press into this little vohime the best parts of Bruce's Life 

 and voluminous and expensive Travels, without omitting one 

 incident of importance and interest. He has vindicated the 

 character of Bruce, by confronting the statements of his 

 accusers with the testimony of later travellers. The 

 narrative had been allowed universally to possess the 



