OLD COURT LIFE IN FRANCE.
By Frances Elliot. Illustrated with portraits and with views of the
old châteaux. 2 vols., 8º, $4.00. Half-calf extra, gilt tops $8.00"Mrs. Elliot's is an anecdotal history of the French Court from Francis I. to Louis XIV. She has conveyed a vivid idea of the personalities touched upon, and her book contains a great deal of genuine vitality."—Detroit Free Press.
WOMAN IN FRANCE DURING THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
By Julia Kavanagh, author of "Madeline," Illustrated with
portraits on steel. 2 vols., 8º, $4.00. Half-calf extra, gilt tops, $8.00"Miss Kavanagh has studied her material so carefully, and has digested it so well, that she has been able to tell the story of Court Life in France, from the beginning of the Regency to the end of the revolutionary period, with an understanding and a sobriety that make it practically new to English readers."—Detroit Free Press.
"Miss Kavanagh has studied her material so carefully, and has digested it so well, that she has been able to tell the story of Court Life in France, from the beginning of the Regency to the end of the revolutionary period, with an understanding and a sobriety that make it practically new to English readers."—Detroit Free Press.
FRANCE UNDER MAZARIN.
By James Breck Perkins. With a Sketch of the Administration of
Richelieu. Portraits of Mazarin, Richelieu, Louis XIII., Anne of
Austria, and Condé. 2 vols., 8º $4.00"A brilliant and fascinating period that has been skipped, slighted, or abused by the ignorance, favoritism, or prejudice of other writers is here subjected to the closest scrutiny of an apparently judicial and candid student...."—Boston Literary World.
A FRENCH AMBASSADOR AT THE COURT OF CHARLES II.; LE COMTE DE COMINGES.
From his unpublished correspondence. Edited by J. J. Jusserand.
With 10 illustrations, 5 being photogravures. 8º $3.50"M. Jusserand has chosen a topic peculiarly fitted to his genius, and Heated it with all the advantage to be derived on he one hand, from his wide knowledge of English literature and English social life, and on the other, from his diplomatic experience and his freedom of access of the archives of the French Foreign Office.... We get a new and vivid picture of his (Cominges') life at the Court of Charles II.... There is not a dull page in the book."—London Times.