2 MR. COLBURN'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. KING WALPOLE'S MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE THE SECOND; EDITED, WITH A PREFACE AND NOTES, Second Edition, Revised, in 3 handsome volumes 8vo, with Portraits, out as, Known as the son of the ablest minister the age produced (Sir Robert Walpole), and having many of his nearest friends and relatives members at different periods either of the government or of the opposition, it is impossible to imagine an individual more favourably circumstanced than Horace Walpole to record the stirring scenes and great events that made the reign of George II. so remarkable. But to these advantages must be added a talent in portraying the characteristics of his contemporaries, and a vivacity in describing the scenes in which they figured so conspicuously, in which he is without a rival. The result is a history which, with the veracity of a chronicle, affords equal entertainment with the most vivacious romance, and though sufficiently attractive in its own merits to all classes of readers, is essential to every library containing any portion of the Walpole Works and Correspondence. "We are glad to see an octavo edition of this work. The publisher has conferred a boon on the public by the republication."-Britannia. "Few historical works that have appeared can equal these volumes, either in amusement or instruction."-Sunday Times. "Perhaps, without exception, the liveliest piece of historical gossip in any language. It is a valuable contribution to the history and philosophy of human nature."-Daily News. "A work of greater interest than has been placed before the public for a considerable time. The Memoirs abound in matter which is both useful and amusing. The political portions of the work are of undoubted value and interest, and embody a considerable amount of very curious historical information, hitherto inaccessible even to the most determined and persevering student."-Morning Post. HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. 3 LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM OFFICIAL RECORDS, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS, PRIVATE AS WELL AS PUBLIC. BY AGNES STRICKLAND. DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO HER MAJESTY. To be completed in 12 vols., embellished with Portraits, and other Illustrations, 10s. 6d. each, bound; either of which may be had separately. Vols. I to XI., are now ready. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "These volumes have the fascination of a romance united to the integrity of history.”—Times. "Miss Strickland has made a very judicious use of many authentic MS. authorities not previously collected, and the result is a most interesting addition to our biographical library.”—Quarterly Review. “A most valuable and entertaining work. There is certainly no lady of our day who has devoted her pen to so beneficial a purpose as Miss Strickland. Nor is there any other whose works possess a deeper or more enduring interest. Miss Strickland is to our mind the first literary lady of the age."-Chronicle. "A valuable contribution to historical knowledge. It contains a mass of every kind of historical matter of interest, which industry and research could collect. We have derived much entertainment and instruction from the work."-Athenæum. "We must pronounce Miss Strickland beyond all comparison the mostentertaining historian in the English language. She is certainly a woman of powerful and active mind, as well as of scrupulous justice and honesty of purpose. And, as we before remarked, the considerable number of new documents to which she has had access, and the curious nature of some of these documents, impart to her production a character of which it would be hard to determine whether the utility or the entertainment predominated." -Morning Post. "This work is written by a lady of considerable learning, indefatigable industry, and careful judgment. All these qualifications for a biographer and an historian she has brought to bear upon the subject of her volumes, and from them has resulted a narrative interesting to all, and more particularly interesting to that portion of the community to whom the more refined researches of literature afford pleasure and instruction. The whole work should be read, and no doubt will be read, by all who are anxious for information. It is a lucid arrange. ment of facts, derived from authentic sources, exhibiting a combination of industry, learning, judgment, and impartiality, not often met with in biographers of crowned heads."-Times. (Third Notice.) B 2 MR. COLBURN'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. HISTORY OF THE CAPTIVITY OF NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA. BY GENERAL COUNT MONTHOLON, The Emperor's Companion in Exile, and Testamentary Executor, Now first translated and published from the author's original manuscript. 4 vols. 8vo. Vols. III. and IV. may be had separately to complete sets. "General Count Montholon, Napoleon's companion in exile, and testamentary executor, has determined by detailed and honest statements, to bring every thing connected with this important event before the eyes of civilised Europe. We have read his volumes with intense interest and curiosity, and we are eager to acknowledge the general good sense, right feeling, and strong desire for impartiality that have signalised them. They contain innumerable passages of interest, amusement, and information."-Court Journal. THE ONLY AUTHORISED ENGLISH EDITION. Now in course of publication, embellished with portraits. The first six volumes may now be had bound in three, price 31s. 6d. M. A. THIERS' HISTORY OF THE CONSULATE AND THE EMPIRE OF FRANCE, UNDER NAPOLEON. A sequel to his History of the French Revolution. Translated, with the sanction and approval of the Author, by D. FORBES CAMPBELL, Esq. Having filled at different times, the high offices of Minister of the Interior, of Finance, of Foreign Affairs, and President of the Council, M. Thiers has enjoyed facilities beyond the reach of every other biographer of Napoleon, for procuring, from exclusive and authentic sources, the choicest materials for his present work. As guardian to the archives of the state, he had access to diplomatic papers and other documents of the highest importance, hitherto known only to a privileged few, and the publication of which cannot fail to produce a great sensation. From private sources, M. Thiers, it appears, has also derived much valuable information. Many interesting memoirs, diaries, and letters, all hitherto unpublished, and most of them destined for political reasons to remain so, have been placed at his disposal; while all the leading characters of the empire, who were alive when the author undertook the present history, have supplied him with a mass of incidents and anecdotes, which have never before appeared in print, and the accuracy and value of which may be inferred from the fact of these parties having been themselves eye-witnesses of, or actors in, the great events of the period. To prevent disappointment, the public are requested to be particular in giving their orders for "COLBURN'S AUTHORISED Edition, TRANSLATED BY D. FORBES CAMPBELL." HISTORY AND BIOGRAFIY. 5 THE COURT AND TIMES OF JAMES I., ILLUSTRATED BY AUTHENTIC AND CONFIDENTIAL LETTERS, FROM VARIOUS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS. EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NUMEROUS NOTES, BY THE AUTHOR OF "MEMOIRS OF SOPHIA DOROTHEA," 2 vols. 8vo. Ir may be asserted with confidence that scarcely any similar publication can exceed these volumes in interest, or rival them in the extent and variety with which they illustrate contemporary history. They contain the Confidential Correspondence of the Reign of James I. written to and from the Principal Ministers of State, Ambassadors, and other persons either connected with the court, or occupying positions which afforded them means of obtaining the most secret information. Among these will be found, Robert Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury; Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester; Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury; Henry, Earl of Northampton: William, Earl of Pembroke; Edward, Lord Wotton; Richard, Earl of Dorset; George Calvert, Baron Baltimore; Viscount Andover; Thomas, Earl of Arundel and Surrey; Sir Clement Edmondes; Sir Isaac Wake; Sir Henry Fanshawe; Sir Thomas Edmondes; Sir John Throckmorton; and various other eminent diplomatists and statesmen. Of the innumerable subjects on which the volumes afford information, it is scarcely possible to give an adequate idea, but among many others may be named, The Trial of Sir Walter Raleigh and his subsequent history-The Gunpowder Plot-The Murder of Sir Thomas Overbury-The Trial of the Earl and Countess of Somerset-The Rise of Villiers, Duke of Buckingham and his Family-The Early History and Death of Henry, Prince of Wales-The Private Lives of Queen Anne of Denmark and Prince Charles-The Stories of Arabella Stuart and Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia-The Visits of the King of Denmark and the Count Palatine of the Rhine-The Proceedings of the Houses of Parliament, the Privy Council, the Courts of Law, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge-The Court Masques and Entertainments-The Revels of the Inns of Court -The Theatres, &c. In its illustrations of the Literary History of the time, the work is extremely rich, abounding in anecdotes of Ben Jonson, Carew, Wither, Daniel, the Killegrews, Sir Henry Saville, Sir Robert Cotton, Camden, the brothers Shirley the famous travellers, Bacon, Sir Julius Cæsar, Dr. Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, and many scholars of note both at home and abroad. Added to these interesting features the work contains notices of almost every person of celebrity in the kingdom, so that there is scarcely a family whose members have figured in the history of this portion of the seventeenth century, that will not find in these volumes some reference to their ancestors. B 3 6 MR. COLBURN'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF JOIN EVELYN. A NEW AND REVISED EDITION. To be completed in 3 volumes, handsomely printed in post 8vo, with Illustrations. DIARY AND MEMOIRS OF SOPHIA DOROTHEA, CONSORT OF GEORGE I. NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINALS. Cheaper Edition, in 2 vols. 8vo, with Portrait, 218. bound. "A work abounding in the romance of real life."-Messenger. "A book of marvellous revelations, establishing beyond all doubt the perfect innocence of the beautiful, highly gifted, and inhumanly treated Sophia Dorothea."-Naval and Military Gazette. LETTERS OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. EDITED, WITH AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, New and Cheaper Edition with numerous Additions, uniform with Miss Strickland's "Lives of the Queens of England," in 2 vols., post 8vo, with Portrait, &c., 218. bound, "No public or private library can be considered complete without this valuable work."-Morning Post. "The best collection of authentic memorials relative to the Queen of Scots that has ever appeared.”—Morning Chronicle. MEMOIRS OF PRINCE CHARLES STUART, COMMONLY CALLED THE "YOUNG PRETENDER," WITH NOTICES OF THE REBELLION IN 1745. BY C. L. KLOSE, ESQ. Cheaper edition. 2 vols. 8vo, with Portrait, 21s. bound. "This work may justly claim the credit of being the fullest and most authentic narrative of this great era of English history."Messenger. MEMOIRS AND LITERARY REMAINS OF LADY JANE GREY. BY SIR HARRIS NICHOLAS. 1 vol. 8vo, 8s. 6d. bound. |