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NEW AND INTERESTING WORKS 



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MESSRS. HURST AND BLACKETT, 



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MEMOIRS OF THE COURTS AND CABINETS OF 



WILLIAM IV. AND VICTORIA. From Origival Family Docu- 

 MENTS. By the DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS, K.G. 

 Completing the Bockingham Papers. 2 vols. 8vo. with Portraits. 30s. 

 Among the principal interesting subjects of these volumes will be found : — 

 The Re-establishment of the Royal Household — The Sailor King and his Court 

 — The Duke of Wellington In, and Out of, Office — The Reform Cabinet and the 

 Conservative Opposition — Career of Sir Robert Peel — Civil List Expenditure — 

 Vicissitudes of Louis Philippe — Attacks on the Duke af Wellington — Corona- 

 tions of William IV. and Queen Victoria — Rise and Fall of O'Connell — Lord Mel- 

 bourne and his Ministry — Proceedings of the Kings of Hanover and Belgium — Pri- 

 vate Negotiations at Apsley House — Secret History of Court Arrangements. &c. 



"These volumes bring to a conclusion the interesting series of memoirs which have been, 

 published under the auspices of the Duke of Buckingham during the last few years. 

 Founded on the traditions of a family whose members have long possessed the entree into 

 the charmed circle of courtiers and politicians, and enriched by the private and conhdentiai 

 letters of the great men of the time, these works possess a peculiar interest which is not 

 always the attribute of state memoirs. They lift the veil of mystery with which the agents 

 of court influence and cabinet intrigues shroud their actions from the eyes of the public 

 and show us the motives which actuated our statesmen, and ihe degree in which the private 

 expressions ot their views coincided with the public declaration of thtir sentiments. The 

 number of original documents in the present volumes invests the work with a fresh and 

 authentic interest. As forming the conclusion of a valuable and important series, these 

 memoirs should lind a place on the shelves of every libraiy." — Sun. 



MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF GEORGE IV. FROM 



Original Family Documents. By the DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM 

 AND CHANDOS, K.G. 2 vols. 8vo. with Portraits. 30s. bound. 



" The country is very much indebted to the Duk^of Buckingham for the publication of 

 these volumes — to our thinking the most valuable of the contributions to recent history 

 which he has yet compiled from his family papers. Besides the King, the Duke of 

 Buckingham's canvass is full of the leading men of the day — Castlereagh, Liverpool, Can- 

 ning, Wellington, Peel, and their compeers. We are sure that no reader, whether he seeks 

 for gossip, or for more sterling information, will be disappointed by the book. There aie 

 several most characteristic letters of the Duke of Wellington." — John Bull. 



"The original documents and private letters published in these volumes — penned by 

 public men, who were themselves active participators in the events and scenes described 

 — throw a great deal of very curious and very valuable light upon this period of our history. 

 Written in the absence of all restraint, they necessarily possess a high interest even 

 for the lightest and most careless reader; whilst, in an historical sense, as an authentic 

 source from which future historians will be enabled to form their estimate of the 

 characters of the leading men who flourished in the reign of the last George, they must 

 be regarded as possessing an almost inestimable value. Taking this publication altogether, 

 we must give the Duke of Buckingham great credit for the manner in which he has 

 executed it, and at the same time return him our hearty thanks for the interesting and 

 valuable information which he has unfolded to us from his family archives." — Observer. 



