EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WAIFS. By John Ashton, Author of ‘Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne,’ &c. 1 vol. imperial 8vo. 12s.
CONTENTS: A Forgotten Fanatic—A Fashionable Lady’s Life—George Barrington—Milton’s Bones—The True Story of Eugene Aram—Redemptioners—A Trip to Richmond in Surrey—George Robert Fitzgerald—Eighteenth Century Amazons—‘The Times’ and its Founder—Imprisonment for Debt—Jonas Hanway—A Holy Voyage to Ramsgate One Hundred Years Ago—Quacks of the Century—Cagliostro in London.
SHIKAR SKETCHES: With Notes on Indian Field Sports. By J. Moray Brown, late 79th Cameron Highlanders. With Eight Illustrations, by J. C. Dollman, R.I. 1 vol. imperial 8vo. 12s.
CHAPTERS FROM FAMILY CHESTS. By Edward Walford, M.A., Author of ‘The County Families,’ &c. 2 vols. crown 8vo. 21s.
“There is a mine of wealth in the ‘Family Chests’ which no one has yet brought to the surface, and from this Mr. Walford has contrived to excavate a mass of acceptable matter—a treasury of narrative curious and romantic.”—Globe.
“The reader will find much curious information in Mr. Walford’s chapters of agreeable narrative.”—Scotsman.
REMINISCENCES OF THE COURT AND TIMES OF KING ERNEST OF HANOVER. By the Rev. C. A. Wilkinson, M.A., His Majesty’s Resident Domestic Chaplain. 2 vols. With portrait of the King. 21s.
“An interesting book, entitled ‘Reminiscences of the Court and Times of King Ernest of Hanover,’ has just been published by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett. The two volumes in which these reminiscences of a septuagenarian are comprised abound in characteristic stories of the old king, in anecdotes of many celebrities English and foreign, of the early part of this century, and, indeed, of all kinds and conditions of men and women with whom the author was brought in contact by his courtly or pastorial office.”—St. James’s Gazette.
THE EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGNS, 1882 TO 1885, and the Events which led to them. By Charles Royle, Barrister-at-Law, of Alexandria. 2 vols. demy 8vo. Illustrated by Maps and Plans. 30s.
“Mr. Royle has done well in the interests of historical completeness to describe not only the entire military drama, but also the political events connected with it, and whoever reads the book with care has gone a considerable way towards mastering the difficult Egyptian question.”—Athenæum.