'Sylhet' Thackeray.
By F. B. Bradley Birt, I.C.S., Author of 'Chota Nagpore,' &c.
*** A biography of William Makepeace Thackeray, the grandfather of the Novelist.
Standard.—'Mr. Bradley Birt's knowledge of India, not only as it is now, but also as it was in the latter part of the eighteenth century, has enabled him to give the story a vividness which is not always found in Anglo-Indian Biography.'
With 18 Portraits (2 in Photogravure). Small demy, 8vo. 2 vols. 21s. net.
The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon.
By Sir Henry Craik, K.C.B., M.P.,
Author of 'A Century of Scottish History,' &c.
Times.—'A life which in its greatness and variety of relief, no less than in the picturesque abundance of detail available, yields to five or six alone in the whole splendid gallery of seventeenth century biography.'