“These Memoirs are not only a repository of anecdotes and of portraits sketched from life by a keen-eyed, quick-witted woman; some of the author’s reflections on social and political questions are remarkable for weight and penetration.”—New York Sun.
A SELECTION FROM THE LETTERS OF MADAME DE RÉMUSAT. 1804–1814. Edited by her Grandson, Paul de Rémusat, Senator. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.
MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON, his Court and Family. By the Duchess d’Abrantes. In 2 volumes, 12mo. Cloth, $3.00.
The interest excited in the first Napoleon and his Court by the “Memoirs of Madame de Rémusat” has induced the publishers to issue the famous “Memoirs of the Duchess d’Abrantes,” which have hitherto appeared in a costly octavo edition, in a much cheaper form, and in a style to correspond with De Rémusat. This work will be likely now to be read with awakened interest, especially as it presents a much more favorable portrait of the great Corsican than that limned by Madame de Rémusat, and supplies many valuable and interesting details respecting the Court and Family of Napoleon, which are found in no other work. [[326]]
RECENT FICTION.
FREELAND: A Social Anticipation. By Dr. Theodor Hertzka. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
A most interesting attempt to work out the social problems which confront the world to-day. It is a description of an ideal community founded upon new and yet not impossible conditions. In Germany this book has met with a success equal to that of Looking Backward in this country, and, like the latter book, it has led to the foundation of clubs and societies, and to efforts to put the plans of the author into actual practice.
A MERCIFUL DIVORCE. By F. W. Maude. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
A story of the modern “smart set” in London, by an author whose knowledge of the life comes from actual experience. There has been no attempt at the sensational, but the book represents an effort to picture a striking phase of modern society as it really is.
AN UTTER FAILURE. By Miriam Coles Harris, author of “Rutledge.” 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.