MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, Etc. 5 
THE STORY OF DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA. 
By Padre Luis Coloma, S.J., of the Real Academia Espanola. 
Translated by Lady Moreton. With Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 
1 6s. net. 
*** “ A new type oi book, half novel and half history,” as it is very aptly 
called in a discourse delivered on the occasion of Padre Coloma’s election to the 
Academia de Espana, the story of the heroic son of Charles V. is retold by one oi 
Spain’s greatest living writers with a vividness and charm all his own. The 
childhood of Jeromin, afterwards Don John of Austria reads like a mysterious 
romance. His meteoric career is traced through the remaining chapters of the 
book ; first as the attractive youth ; the cynosure of all eyes that were bright and 
gay at the court of Philip II., which Padre Coloma maintains was less austere 
than is usually supposed ; then as conqueror of the Moors, culminating as the 
“man from God” who saved Europe from the terrible peril of a Turkish 
dominion ; triumphs in Tunis ; glimpses of life in the luxury loving Italy of the 
day; then the sad story of the war in the Netherlands, when our hero, victim 
of an infamous conspiracy, is left to die of a broken heart ; his end hastened by 
fever, and, maybe, by the “broth of Doctor Ramirez.” Perhaps more fully than 
ever before is laid baie the intrigue which led to the cruel death of the secretary, 
Escovedo, including the dramatic interview between Philip II. and Antonio 
Perez, in the lumber room of the Escorial. A minute account of the celebrated 
auto da fe in Valladolid cannot fail to arrest attention, nor will the details of 
several of the imposing ceremonies of Old Spain be less welcome than those of 
more intimate festivities in the Madrid of the sixteenth century, or of everyday 
life in a Spanish castle. 
^4^ “ This book has all the fascination of a vigorous rowan a clef . . . the 
translation is vigorous and idiomatic.”— Mr. Osman Edwards in Morning Post. 
THIRTEEN YEARS OF A BUSY WOMAN’S 
LIFE. By Mrs. Alec Tweedie. With Nineteen Illustrations. 
Demy 8vo. 16s. net. Third Edition. 
\* It is a novel idea for an author to give her reasons for taking up her pen 
as a journalist and writer of books. This Mrs. Alec Tweedie has done in 
“Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman’s Life.” She tells a dramatic story of youthful 
happiness, health, wealth, and then contrasts that life with the thirteen years of 
hard work that followed the loss of her husband, her father, and her income in 
quick succession in a few weeks. Mrs. Alec Tweedie’s books of travel and 
biography are well-known, and have been through man}^ editions, even to shilling 
copies" for the bookstalls. This is hardly an autobiography, the author is too 
young for that, but it gives romantic, and tragic peeps into the life of a woman 
reared in luxury, who suddenly found herself obliged to live on a tiny income 
with two small children, or work — and work hard — to retain something of her old 
life and interests. It is a remarkable story with many personal sketches of some 
of the best-known men and women of the day. 
“One of the gayest and sanest surveys of English society we have read 
for years.” — Pall Mall Gazette. 
“A pleasant laugh from cover to cover.” — Daily Chronicle. 
THE ANGLO-FRENCH ENTENTE IN THE 
XVIIth CENTURY. By Charles Bastide. With Illustrations. 
Demy 8vo. ios. 6 d. net. 
*u* The author of this book of essays on the intercourse between England 
and France in the seventeenth century has gathered much curious and little- 
known information. How did the travellers proceed from London to Paris? Did 
the Frenchmen who came over to England learn, and did they ever venture 
to write English? An almost unqualified admiration for everything French then 
prevailed : French tailors, milliners, cooks, even fortune-tellers, as well as writers 
and actresses, reigned supreme. How far did gallomania affect the relations 
between the two countries ? Among the foreigners who settled in England none 
exercised such varied influence as the Hugenots ; students of Shakespeare and 
Milton can no longer ignore the Hugenot friends of the two poets, historians of 
the Commonwealth must take into account the “Nouvelles ordinaires de 
Londres.’’ the French gazette, issued on the Puritan side, by some enterprising 
refugee. Is it then possible to determine how deeply the refugees impressed 
English thought ? Such are the main questions to which the book affords an 
answer. With its numerous hitherto unpublished documents and illustrations, 
drawn from contemporary sources, it cannot fail to interest those to whom a most 
brilliant and romantic period in English history must necessarily appeal. 
