Perdita 



A Romance in Biography 



By STANLEY V. MAKOWER. 



Author of "The Mirror of Music," "Cecilia," etc. 



In I vol., demy Svo, doth gilt and gilt top, 16s. net 



Fully Illustrated with Portraits 



A romantic narrative of the career of Mary Robinson, the beautiful and 

 ill-starred lady whose portraits in the Wallace Collection excite the curiosity 

 and sympathy of numerous visitors to the famous gallery. Married while 

 still a child, she passed through all the vicissitudes of wealth, poverty, 

 obscurity, and brilliant but fatal recognition as an actress, drawing upon 

 herself the attention of the fashionable world at Ranelagh and Vauxhall. 

 After the birth of a daughter, and a period of distress in a debtor's prison, 

 she appeared as Juliet, and later as Perdita, when her beauty and talents won 

 for her the affections of the Heir Apparent. "Prince Florizel" (as the 

 unruly son of George III. was called) loved, cheated, and deserted her, and 

 her last days were saddened by disease and misfortune. "Perdita" wrote 

 plays, poems, novels, and her own memoirs. She not only possessed con- 

 siderable literary gifts, but she was warmly admired by\ Fox, Sheridan, 

 Garrick, Reynolds, Romney, and many others among the great figures in 

 English history during the last half of the eighteenth century. 



Lady Jane Grey and her Times 



By I. A. TAYLOR 



Author of "Queen Hortense and her Friends," " Queen Henrietta Maria," etc. 

 In demy 8vo t cloth gilt and gilt top, 16s. net 



With 17 Illustrations, including a Photogravure 

 Frontispiece 



In this book the writer has not aimed at supplying a complete history of 

 English affairs during the years covered by the narrative. Her object has 

 been rather to add colour to the picture of the ill-starred heroine of one of the 

 most tragic episodes of the sixteenth century. Personal sketches of the most 

 prominent figures also occupy the stage : Mary Tudor and Elizabeth, Edward 

 VI., the poet Earl of Surrey, the unfortunate Seymour brothers, Katherine 

 Parr, Northumberland, and others, many of whom ended their lives on Tower 

 Hill. Needless to say, the period dealt with includes some very stormy 

 years of English history. 



" Miss Taylor does well in presenting this account of a gentle life. The 

 story of Lady Jane Grey has an interest of pathos that is its own. The story 

 is told with all its picturesque value in Miss Taylor's pages." Outlook. 



