Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... MEMOIR mOGHAPHIES, ETC. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WILLIAM COBBETT IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA. By Lewis Melville. Author of "William Makepeace Thackeray." With two Photogravures and numerous other Illustrations, z vols. Demy 8vo. 32s. net. THE LETTER-BAG OF LADY ELIZABETH SPENCER STANHOPE. By A. M. W. Stirlinc. Author of "Coke of Norfolk," and "Annals of a Yorkshire House." With a Colour Plate, 3 in Photogravure, and 27 other Illustrations. 2 vols. Demy 8vo. 32s. net. #* Extracts might be multiplied indefinitely, but we have given enough to show the richness of the mine. We have nothing but praise for the editor's work, and can conscientiously commend this book equally to the student of manners and the lover of lively anecdote."--Standard. MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND IN 1675. By Marie Catherine Comtesse D'aulnoy. Translated from the original French by Mrs. William Henry Arthur. Edited. Revised, and with Annotations (including an account of Lucy Walter) by George David Gilbert. With Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 21s. net. *.* When the Comte de Gramont went back to France and Mr. Pcpys decided that to save his eyesight it was essential that he should suspend nil Diary, the records of delectable gossip of the ever interesting Restoration Court became, of necessity, sadly curtailed. Indeed, of the second decade of the Golden Days the sedate t-velyn has hitherto been almost the only source of information available to the public Though the Memoirs of the Countess d'Aulnoy have always been known to students, they have never received the respect they undoubtedly merit, for nntil Mr. Gilbert, whose hobby is the social history of this period, took the matter in hand, no-one had succeeded in either deciphering the identity of the leading characters..."