HURST AND BLACKETT'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



DOMESTIC MEMOIRS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, 



and the COURT OF ENGLAND, chiefly at SHENE and RICHMOND. 

 By Folkestone "Williams, F.G.S., 3 vols. Portraits. 



" In the prosecution of his labours, the author has consulted antiquaries and arch?e- 

 ologists, and examined contemporary authorities. The result Is, a work, pleasant and 

 instructive, abundant in anecdote, and agreeably gossipping It, moreover, evinces con- 

 siderable research, and a generally sound historical judgment." — Spectator. 



"This work belongs to the best class of popular antiquarian books, because it is 

 popular by reason of the entertaining character and the variety of its store of trust-worthy 

 information." — Examtner. 



ESSAYS FROM THE QUARTERLY- BY JAMES 



HANNAY, 1 vol. 8vo. (Just ready). 



THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GEORGE VILLIERS, 



DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. By MRS. THOMSON. 3 vols. 



"These volumes will increase the well-earned reputation of their clever and popula 

 author. The story of the royal favourite's career is told by Mrs. Thomson very honestly, 

 and is enriched abundantly with curious and entertaining details from the familiar letters of 

 the time and the memorials of the State Paper Office, of which a full publication is now 

 made for the first time. Labour and pains have, indeed, been well spent upon volumes that 

 produce their evidence so fairly and are written so agreeably as these." — Examiner. 



" Mrs. Thomson is entitled to great praise. She has written the most complete bio- 

 graphy of Buckingham that has appeared in the language. Those who commence the 

 work by being amused will end in being instructed." — Literary Gazette. 



BRITISH ARTISTS, from HOGARTH to TURNER; 



Being a Series of Biographical Sketches. By Walter Th rn- 

 BURY. 2 vols. 21s. 



"Mr. Thornbury writes with knowledge and enthusiasm. The interest of his sketches 

 is unquestionable." — Examiner. 



"The interest of Mr. Thornlmry's pictures is undeniable— a result partly due to the 

 talent of the painter, partly to his subjects; for next to the lives of actors those of artists 

 are among the most interesting to read. Especially so are those of our English artists of 

 the last century — lives abounding in contrasted and often dark hues, interwoven with the 

 history of men still remarkable in letters and politics. Capital subjects for a biographer 

 with a turn for dramatic and picturesque realisation are such men as the bright, mercurial 

 Gainsborough; the moody, neglected Wilson; Reynolds, the bland and self-possessed; 

 Barry, the fierce and squalid; shrewd, miserly Nollekins; the foppish, visionary Conway ; 

 the spendthrift Sherwin ; the stormy Fusell ; Morland, the reprobate; Lawrence, the 

 courtly. The chapters devoted to these heroes of the English schools are not so much 

 condensed biographies as dramatic glimpses of the men and their environments. Certain 

 striking scenes and circumstances in their lives are vividly and picturesquely painted — 

 made to re-live before our eyes with all the vraisemblance and illusive effect of the novelist." 

 — Critic. 



"Mr. Thornbnry's delightful artistic sketches will be gladly welcomed. Graphic in 

 design and brilliant in style, the vrork can scarcely fail to find favours with the lovers of 

 British literature as well as of British art." — Sun. 



MEMOIRS OF ROYAL LADIES. BY EMILY S. 



HOLT. 2 volumes post 8vo. with Illustrations. (Just ready.) 



