THE LIFE OF 



HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS 



THE PRINCE CONSORT. 



By THEODORE MARTIN. 



With Portraits and Views. Volume the First. 121110. Cloth. Price, $2.00. 



" The book, indeed, is more comprehensive than its title implies. Purporting to 

 tell the life of the Prince Consort, it includes a scarcely less minute biography which 

 may be regarded as almost an autobiography of the Queen herself; and, when it is 

 complete, it will probably present a more minute history of the domestic life of a queen 

 and her ' master ' (the term is Her Majesty's) than has ever before appeared." Front 

 the Athenccum. 



" Mr. Martin has accomplished his task with a success which could scarcely have 

 been anticipated. His biography of Prince Albert would be valuable and instructive 

 even if it were addressed to remote and indifferent readers who had no special interest 

 in the English court or in the royal family. Prince Albert's actual celebrity is insepa- 

 rably associated with the high position which he occupied, but his 1 claim to permanent 

 reputation depends on the moral and intellectual qualities which were singularly 

 adapted to the circumstances of his career. In any rank of life he would probably 

 have attained distinction ; but his prudence, his self-denial, and his aptitude for acquir- 

 ing practical knowledge, could scarcely have found a more suitable field of exercise 

 than in his peculiar situation as the acknowledged head of a constitutional monarchy." 

 From the Saturday Review. 



" The author writes with dignity and grace, he values his subject, and treats him 

 with a certain courtly reverence, yet never once sinks into the panegyrist, and while 

 apparently most frank so frank, that the reticent English people may feel the intimacy 

 of his domestic narratives almost painful he is never once betrayed into a momentary 

 indiscretion. The almost idyllic beauty of the relation between the Prince Consort 

 and the Queen comes out as fully as in all previous histories of that relation and we 

 have now had three as does also a good deal of evidence as to the Queen's own 

 character, hitherto always kept down, and, as it were, self effaced in publications 

 written or sanctioned by herself." From the London Spectator. 



"Of the abilities which have been claimed for the Prince Consort, this work affords 

 us small means of judging. But of his wisdom, strong sense of duty, and great dignity 

 and purity of character, the volume furnishes ample evidence. In this way it will be 

 of service to any one who reads it." From the New York Evening Post. 



"There is a striking contrast between this volume and the Greville Memoirs, which 

 relate to a period in English history immediately preceding Prince Albert's marriage 

 with Queen Victoria. Radical changes were effected in court-life by Victoria's acces- 

 sion to the throne. ... In the work before us, which is the unfolding of a model home- 

 life, a life in fact unrivaled in the abodes of modern royalty, there is nothing but what 

 the purest mind can read with real pleasure and profit. 



" Mr. Martin draws a most exquisite portraiture of the married life of the royal pair, 

 which seems to have been as nearly perfect as any thing human can be. The volume 

 closes shortly after the Revolution of 1848, at Paris, when Louis Philippe and his hap- 

 less queen were fleeing to England in search of an asylum from the fearful forebodings 

 which overhung their pathway. It was a trying time for England, but, says Mr. Mar- 

 tin with true dramatic effect in the closing passages of his book : ' When the storm 

 burst, it found him prepared. In rising to meet the difficulties of the hour, the prince 

 found the best support in the cheerful courage of the queen,' who on the 4th of 

 April of that same year wrote to King Leopold : ' I never was calmer and quieter or 

 less nervous. Great events make me calm ; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.' 

 Thus ends the first volume of one of the most important biographies of the present 

 time. The second volume will follow as soon as its preparation can be effected." 

 From the Hartford Evening Post. 



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