THE HISTORY
OF THE
KING'S GERMAN LEGION,
FROM THE PERIOD OF ITS ORGANIZATION IN 1803, TO THAT OF ITS
DISSOLUTION IN 1816.
Compiled from Manuscript Documents.
By N. LUDLOW BEAMISH, Esq. F.R.S. late Major unattached.
Vol. I. 8vo. with coloured plates; price 20s. boards; to be completed in two volumes.
"Of the late war we have had histories, partial or complete, in countless abundance; but we have not seen one, displaying more moderation, more diligence in investigating the truth, or more shrewdness in deciding between conflicting statements. Though professedly merely a history of the services of the German Legion, it is, in fact, a history of the entire war; for, from 'what glorious and well-foughten field' can we record the absence of German chivalry? The work is not like others we could name—a mere compilation from newspapers and magazines. Major Beamish has left no source of information unexplored; and the access he obtained to manuscript journals has enabled him to intersperse his general narrative with interesting personal anecdotes, that render this volume as delightful for those who read for amusement, as those who read for profit."—Athenæum.
A TREATISE ON THE GAME OF WHIST;
BY THE LATE
ADMIRAL CHARLES BURNEY,
Author of Voyages and Discoveries in the Pacific, &c.
Second Edition. 18mo. boards, price 2s.
"The kind of play recommended in this Treatise is on the most plain, and what the Author considers the most safe principles. I have limited my endeavours to the most necessary instructions, classing them as much as the subject enabled me, under separate heads, to facilitate their being rightly comprehended and easily remembered. For the greater encouragement of the learner, I have studied brevity; but not in a degree to have prevented my endeavouring more to make the principles of the game, and the rationality of them intelligible, than to furnish a young player with a set of rules to get by rote, that he might go blindly right."
In 8vo. price 5s.
SKETCHES IN SPAIN,
During the Years 1829–30–31 and 32;
Containing Notices of some Districts very little known; of the Manners of
the People, Government, Recent Changes, Commerce, Fine Arts,
and Natural History.