MR. T. FISHER UN WIN'S 



History, Biography, dc. continued. 

 Robert Adam, Artist and Architect: His Works 



and his System. By PERCY FITZGERALD, M.A.. F.S.A.. 

 Author of " The Life of Garrick," " Lady Jean : the Romance of the 

 Great Douglas Cause," etc. With collotype plates, and many other 

 illustrations. Crown 410, cloth. 



This book is the outcome of many years of study of the famous eighteenth-century 

 architect to whom London owes so much. Mr. Fitzgerald writes with enthusiastic 

 admiration for Adam's character and genius, his romantic spirit, and his animation 

 and grace. 



HlStory in Scott's Novels. By the Hon. A. S. G. CANNING, 

 Author of " Shakespeare Studied in Eight Plays,' etc. Demy 8vo, 

 cloth. 



This work is mainly devoted to history during the times embraced in fifteen of the 

 Waverley Novels. 



As Macaulay said in his Essay on History, " Sir Walter Scott has used those fragments 

 of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which may 

 well excite their envy, and has constructed out of their gleanings, works which even 

 considered as histories are scarcely less valuable than theirs." 



The book will, it is hoped, lead some readers to a better understanding both of the 

 novels and of the periods which they describe. 



Desiree, a Queen of the Revolution, and Her Friends 



at Napoleon's Court. By CATHERINE BEARNE, Author of 

 " A Leader of Society at Napoleon's Court," " Lives and Times of the 

 Early Valois Queens," etc. Fully Illustrated. Large Crown 8vo, 

 cloth. 



This book will be especially interesting to English readers just now when one of the 

 Princesses of our Royal House has been betrothed to the descendant and heir of the King 

 and Queen whose lives, adventures, and surroundings are here described. 



Among all the extraordinary careers in the great days of the First Napoleon there were 

 none more romantic, brilliant, and successful than those of Jean Bernadotte and Desiree 

 Clary, who began their lives as the son of a Gascon lawyer and the daughter of a Marseilles 

 merchant, and ended them as King and Queen of Sweden. Desiree's childhood was 

 overshadowed by the gloom and terror of the Revolution ; her youth was spent among 

 the dissipations and splendours of Napoleon's Court, of which she was a prominent 

 member ; her later life and old age were passed in the peace and dignity of her northern 

 kingdom. Her connection and friendship with the Buonaparte family, her engagement 

 to Napoleon himself, and her intimate association with all the principal persons of his 

 court give the book a peculiar interest. It throws much light on some little-known 

 aspects of the First Empire. 



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