“These volumes are two galleries of richly painted portraits of the noblest men and most brilliant women, besides others commemorated by English history. The grand old Royal Keep, palace and prison by turns, is revivified in these volumes, which close the narrative, extending from the era of Sir John Eliot, who saw Raleigh die in Palace Yard, to that of Thistlewood, the last prisoner immured in the Tower. Few works are given to us, in these days, so abundant in originality and research as Mr. Dixon’s.”—Standard.
“This intensely interesting work will become as popular as any book Mr. Dixon has written.”—Messenger.
“A work always eminently readable, often of fascinating interest.”—Echo.
“The most brilliant and fascinating of Mr. Dixon’s literary achievements.”—Sun.
“Mr. Dixon has accomplished his task well. Few subjects of higher and more general interest than the Tower could have been found. Around the old pile clings all that is most romantic in our history. To have made himself the trusted and accepted historian of the Tower is a task on which a writer of highest reputation may well be proud. This Mr. Dixon has done. He has, moreover, adapted his work to all classes. To the historical student it presents the result of long and successful research in sources undiscovered till now; to the artist it gives the most glowing picture yet, perhaps, produced of the more exciting scenes of national history; to the general reader it offers fact with all the graces of fiction. Mr. Dixon’s book is admirable alike for the general view of history it presents, and for the beauty and value of its single pictures.”—Sunday Times.
DIARY OF THE BESIEGED RESIDENT IN PARIS. Reprinted from “The Daily News.” With several NEW LETTERS and PREFACE. 1 vol. 8vo. 15s.
“‘The Diary of a Besieged Resident in Paris’ will certainly form one of the most remarkable records of a momentous episode in history.”—Spectator.
“The title of this work is familiar, and as we have reason to know pleasantly familiar, to our readers. To them a large portion of the contents of the volume are well known in the necessarily fragmentary and interrupted form in which they first appeared in our columns. In the continuous shape in which they are now presented, with the gaps filled up by the insertion in the proper place of letters which arrived too late for publication, they will not, we believe, be less acceptable. Of the characteristic of these letters it is not for us to speak. The unprecedented interest which they excited as they appeared, and the demand for their republication which has been urged from many quarters, are a better criticism than any which it would be becoming in us to offer. We will only add that, in its collected form, the ‘Diary of a Besieged Resident’ fills a large and handsome volume of nearly four hundred pages.”—Daily News.
IMPRESSIONS OF GREECE. By the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wyse, K.C.B., Late British Minister at Athens. With an Introduction by Miss Wyse, and Letters from Greece to Friends at Home, by Dean Stanley. 8vo. 15s.
LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF COUNT BEUGNOT, Minister of State under Napoleon I. Edited from the French. By Miss C. M. Yonge, author of the “Heir of Redclyffe,” &c. 2 vols. 8vo. (In April.)