Author of "The Early Court of Queen Victoria," etc.
Illustrated. Price 15s. net.
In this volume Mrs. Jerrold carries a stage further her interesting study of Queen Victoria's life. She endeavours to tell the real truth regarding the Queen's married life and her relations with the Prince Consort, and in doing so relies on their own recorded actions and words rather than upon the highly coloured and in many cases exaggerated pictures presented by the "lives" of Prince Albert which were authorised by the Queen.
The result is a human and fascinating story. The relations of the Queen and Prince with those around them, with their children and with their ministers—especially their hatred and fear of Palmerston—their love for Louis-Philippe, for the German confederation, and their complacency towards Russia are all dealt with and throw a strong new light upon the English Court during the years in which Prince Albert was virtually King.
THE SAILOR WHOM ENGLAND FEARED
Being the Story of Paul Jones, Scotch Naval Adventurer and Admiral in the American and Russian Fleets.
By M. MACDERMOT CRAWFORD.
Author of "The Wife of Lafayette."
Illustrated. Price 15s. net.
John Paul Jones was unquestionably one of the most striking characters of the eighteenth century. Born in 1747, the son of a gardener in Kirkcudbrightshire, he was, at the age of seventeen, third mate on a slaver, at twenty a merchant captain; at twenty-eight lieutenant in the United States Revolutionary Navy; at twenty-nine a captain; at thirty-two commodore, "the ocean hero of the Old World and the New," spoiled, adulated, petted by great and small. A vice-admiral in the Russian Navy at forty-three—at forty-five he was dead!
A traitor who terrorised his countrymen, known alternately as "rebel," "corsair," and "pirate," Paul Jones was none the less a man of rare distinction and ability—a brilliant seaman endowed with courage and determination; and the record of his deeds is a story of unflagging interest.
A CANDID HISTORY OF THE JESUITS
By JOSEPH McCABE.
Author of "The Decay of the Church of Rome," "Twelve Years in a Monastery," &c.
Price 10s. 6d. net.