2 vols., 8vo, uniform with the "Curiosities of Literature," 28s. bound.
"By far the most important work on the important age of Charles I. that modern times have produced."—Quarterly Review.
MEMOIRS OF HORACE WALPOLE
AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES,
INCLUDING NUMEROUS ORIGINAL LETTERS, FROM STRAWBERRY HILL.
EDITED BY
ELIOT WARBURTON.
2 vols. 8vo, with Portraits, 16s. bound.
Perhaps no name of modern times is productive of so many pleasant associations as that of "Horace Walpole," and certainly no name was ever more intimately connected with so many different subjects of importance in connexion with Literature, Art, Fashion, and Politics. The position of various members of his family connecting Horace Walpole with the Cabinet, the Court, and the Legislature—his own intercourse with those characters who became remarkable for brilliant social and intellectual qualities—and his reputation as a Wit, a Scholar, and a Virtuoso, cannot fail to render his Memoirs equally amusing and instructive. They nearly complete the chain of mixed personal, political, and literary history, commencing with "Evelyn" and "Pepys," carried forward by "Swift's Journal and Correspondence," and ending almost in our own day with the histories of Mr. Macaulay and Lord Mahon.
"These Memoirs form a necessary addition to the library of every English gentleman. Besides its historical value, which is very considerable, the work cannot be estimated too highly as a book of mere amusement."—Standard.