COMPRISING A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE COUNTESS DE LA MOTTE, PRETENDED
CONFIDANTE OF MARIE-ANTOINETTE, WITH PARTICULARS OF THE
CAREERS OF THE OTHER ACTORS IN THIS REMARKABLE DRAMA.
By HENRY VIZETELLY.
Author of "Berlin Under The New Empire," "Paris in Peril," &c.
Illustrated with an Exact Representation of the Diamond Necklace, from a contemporary Drawing, and a Portrait of the Countess de la Motte, engraved on Steel.
"Mr. Vizetelly's tale has all the interest of a romance which is too strange not to be true.... His summing up of the evidence, both negative and positive, which exculpates Marie-Antoinette from any complicity whatever with the scandalous intrigue in which she was represented as bearing a part, is admirable."—Saturday Review.
"We can, without fear of contradiction, describe Mr. Henry Vizetelly's 'Story of the Diamond Necklace' as a book of thrilling interest. He has not only executed his task with skill and faithfulness, but also with tact and delicacy."—Standard.
"Had the most daring of our sensational novelists put forth the present plain unvarnished statement of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved, every word of it is true."—Notes and Queries.
In Large Crown 8vo, handsomely printed and bound, price 6s.
THE AMUSING ADVENTURES OF GUZMAN OF ALFARAQUE.
A Spanish Novel. Translated by EDWARD LOWDELL.
ILLUSTRATED WITH HIGHLY-FINISHED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL FROM DESIGNS BY STAHL.
"The wit, vivacity and variety of this masterpiece cannot be over-estimated."—Morning Post.