THE MEMOIRS OF AN ARABIAN PRINCESS. By Emily Ruete, née Princess of Oman and Zanzibar. Translated from the German. 12mo. Cloth, 75 cents.
The author of this amusing autobiography is half-sister to the late Sultan of Zanzibar, who some years ago married a German merchant and settled at Hamburg.
“A remarkably interesting little volume.… As a picture of Oriental court life, and manners and customs in the Orient, by one who is to the manor born, the book is prolific in entertainment and edification.”—Boston Gazette.
SKETCHES FROM MY LIFE. By the late Admiral Hobart Pasha. With a Portrait. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
“The sailor is nearly always an adventurous and enterprising variety of the human species, and Hobart Pasha was about as fine an example as one could wish to see.… The sketches of South American life are full of interest. The sport, the inevitable entanglements of susceptible middies with beautiful Spanish girls and the sometimes disastrous consequences, the duels, attempts at assassination, and other adventures and amusements, are described with much spirit.… The sketches abound in interesting details of the American war.”—London Athenæum. [[325]]
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE COURT OF THE TUILERIES. By Madame Carette, Lady-of-Honor to the Empress Eugénie. Translated from the French by Elizabeth Phipps Train. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00; paper cover, 50 cents.
The inside view which these Recollections give of the Court of Louis Napoleon is fresh and of great interest.
“We advise every one who admires good work to buy and read it.”—London Morning Post.
MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE RÉMUSAT. 1802–1808. Edited by her Grandson, Paul de Rémusat, Senator. 3 volumes, crown 8vo. Half bound, $2.25.
“Notwithstanding the enormous library of works relating to Napoleon, we know of none which cover precisely the ground of these Memoirs. Madame de Rémusat was not only lady-in-waiting to Josephine during the eventful years 1802–1808, but was her intimate friend and trusted confidante. Thus we get a view of the daily life of Bonaparte and his wife, and the terms on which they lived, not elsewhere to be found.”—N. Y. Mail.