Part 62

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Mr. /C. K. Shorter/ in _Sphere_.--“Miss Hill has written a charming, an indispensable book.”

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STORY OF THE PRINCESS DES URSINS IN SPAIN (Camarera-Mayor). By /Constance Hill/. With 12 Illustrations and a Photogravure Frontispiece. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 5_s._ net.

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NEW LETTERS OF THOMAS CARLYLE. Edited and Annotated by /Alexander Carlyle/, with Notes and an Introduction and numerous Illustrations. In Two Volumes. Demy 8vo. 25_s._ net.

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THE NEMESIS OF FROUDE: a Rejoinder to “My Relations with Carlyle.” By /Sir James Crichton Browne/ and /Alexander Carlyle/. Demy 8vo. 3_s._ 6_d._ net.

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NEW LETTERS AND MEMORIALS OF JANE WELSH CARLYLE. A Collection of hitherto Unpublished Letters. Annotated by /Thomas Carlyle/, and Edited by /Alexander Carlyle/, with an Introduction by Sir /James Crichton Browne/, /M.D./, /LL.D./, /F.R.S./, numerous Illustrations drawn in Lithography by /T. R. Way/, and Photogravure Portraits from hitherto unreproduced Originals. In Two Volumes. Demy 8vo. 25_s._ net.

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/ÉMILE ZOLA: Novelist and Reformer./ An Account of his Life, Work, and Influence. By /E. A. Vizetelly/. With numerous Illustrations, Portraits, etc. Demy 8vo. 21_s._ net.

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MEMOIRS OF THE MARTYR KING: being a detailed record of the last two years of the Reign of His Most Sacred Majesty King Charles the First, 1646-1648-9. Compiled by /Allan Fea/. With upwards of 100 Photogravure Portraits and other Illustrations, including relics. Royal 4to. 105_s._ net.

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AFTER WORCESTER FIGHT: being the Contemporary Account of King Charles II.’s escape, not included in “The Flight of the King.” By /Allan Fea/. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 15_s._ net.

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_Standard._--“ ... throws fresh light on one of the most romantic episodes in the annals of English History.”

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KING MONMOUTH: being a History of the Career of James Scott, the Protestant Duke, 1649-1685. By /Allan Fea/. With 14 Photogravure Portraits, a Folding-plan of the Battle of Sedgemoor, and upwards of 100 black and white Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 21_s._ net.

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FRENCH NOVELISTS OF TO-DAY: Maurice Barres, Réné Bazin, Paul Bourget, Pierre de Coulevain, Anatole France, Pierre Loti, Marcel Prévost, and Edouard Rod. Biographical, Descriptive, and Critical. By /Winifred Stephens/. With Portraits and Bibliographies. Crown 8vo. 5_s._ net.

⁂ _The writer, who has lived much in France, is thoroughly acquainted with French life and with the principal currents of French thought. The book is intended to be a guide to English readers desirous to keep in touch with the best present-day French fiction. Special attention is given to the ecclesiastical, social, and intellectual problems of contemporary France and their influence upon the works of French novelists of to-day._

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THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF ROBERT /Stephen Hawker/, sometime Vicar of Morwenstow in Cornwall. By /C. E. Byles/. With numerous Illustrations by /J. Ley Pethybridge/ and others. Demy 8vo. 7_s._ 6_d._ net. (Popular Edition.)

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THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE. By /Alexander Gilchrist/. Edited with an Introduction by /W. Graham Robertson/. Numerous Reproductions from Blake’s most characteristic and remarkable designs. Demy 8vo. 10_s._ 6_d._ net. New Edition.

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MEMOIRS OF A ROYAL CHAPLAIN, 1729-63. The correspondence of Edmund Pyle, /D.D./, Domestic Chaplain to George II, with Samuel Kerrich, /D.D./, Vicar of Dersingham, and Rector of Wolferton and West Newton. Edited and Annotated by /Albert Hartshorne/. With Portrait. Demy 8vo. 16_s._ net.

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GEORGE MEREDITH: Some Characteristics. By /Richard Le Gallienne/. With a Bibliography (much enlarged) by /John Lane/. Portrait, etc. Crown 8vo. 5_s._ net. Fifth Edition. Revised.

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A LATER PEPYS. The Correspondence of Sir William Weller Pepys, Bart., Master in Chancery, 1758-1825, with Mrs. Chapone, Mrs. Hartley, Mrs. Montague, Hannah More, William Franks, Sir James Macdonald, Major Rennell, Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, and others. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by /Alice C. C. Gaussen/. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. In Two Volumes. 32_s._ net.

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POEMS. By /Edward Cracroft Lefroy/. With a Memoir by /W. A. Gill/, and a Reprint of Mr. /J. A. Symonds’/ Critical Essay on “Echoes from Theocritus.” Photogravure Portrait. Crown 8vo. 5_s._ net.

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BOOKS AND PLAYS: A Volume of Essays on Meredith, Borrow, Ibsen, and others. By /Allan Monkhouse/. Crown 8vo. 5_s._ net.

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/LIBER AMORIS; or, The New Pygmalion./ By /William Hazlitt/. Edited, with an introduction, by /Richard Le Gallienne/. To which is added an exact transcript of the original MS., Mrs. Hazlitt’s Diary in Scotland, and Letters never before published. Portrait after /Bewick/, and facsimile Letters. 400 copies only. 4to. 364 pp. Buckram. 21_s._ net.

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TERRORS OF THE LAW: being the Portraits of Three Lawyers--the original Weir of Hermiston, “Bloody Jeffreys,” and “Bluidy Advocate Mackenzie.” By /Francis Watt/. With 3 Photogravure Portraits. Fcap. 8vo. 4_s._ 6_d._ net.

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CHAMPIONS OF THE FLEET. Captains and Men-of-War in the Days that Helped to make the Empire. By /Edward Fraser/. With 16 Full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 5_s._ net.

⁂ _Mr. Fraser takes in the whole range of our Navy’s story. First there is the story of the “Dreadnought,” told for the first time: how the name was originally selected by Elizabeth, why she chose it, the launch, how under Drake she fought against the Armada, how her captain was knighted on the quarter-deck in the presence of the enemy. From this point the name is traced down to the present leviathan which bears it. This is but one of the “champions” dealt with in Mr. Fraser’s volume, which is illustrated by some very interesting reproductions._

JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD, VIGO STREET, LONDON, W.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Whiteway’s _Wine of the West Country_.]

[Footnote 2: They are not so represented in the three lithographs that were published at Torquay. But two others beside this correspondent mention their appearance in “bloomers.”]

[Footnote 3: M. B. Synge, _A Short History of Social Life in England_. London, 1906.]

[Footnote 4: Whitfeld, _Plymouth and Devonport, in Times of War and Peace_, 1890, pp. 296-7.]

[Footnote 5: “Venez en bas, et montez le ‘Scuttle’ et allez en bas.”]

[Footnote 6: “Lady Howard, of Fitzford,” in _Transactions_ of the Devonshire Association, 1890.]

[Footnote 7: Mr. J. R. Chanter, “A History of Lundy Island,” in the _Transactions_ of the Devonshire Association, 1871. Reprinted in _Lundy Island_, 1877.]

[Footnote 8: W. Cotton, “An Expedition against Pirates,” in _Transactions_ of the Devonshire Association, 1886.]

[Footnote 9: R. Pearse Chope, “Benson, M.P. and Smuggler,” in the _Hartland Chronicle_, 1906.]

[Footnote 10: Chanter, _Lundy Island_, 1877. Besides Mr. Chanter’s History, my authority is Mr. R. P. Chope’s articles on “Lundy Pirates” and on “Benson” in the _Hartland Chronicle_, 1906.]

[Footnote 11: In the tract, twenty-two.]

[Footnote 12: For this last instance, see _Transactions_ of the Devonshire Association, 1900, p. 84.]