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HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS 
THE PRINCE CONSORT. 
By THEODORE MARTIN. 
With Portraits and Views. Volume the First. t2mo. 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.” —/ vom 
the Atheneum. 
‘* 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 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 ofjudging. 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.” —F rom the New Vork Evening Post. 
‘« There is a striking contrast between this volume and the Greville Memoirs, which 
relate toa 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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