THE REMINISCENCES OF LADY DOROTHY NEVILL.
Edited by her Son, RALPH NEVILL.
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SIXTH IMPRESSION.
There are very few persons living whose knowledge of English Society is, literally, so extensive and peculiar as Lady Dorothy Nevill’s, and fewer still whose recollections of a period extending from the day of the postchaise to that of the motor-car are as graphic and entertaining as hers. In the course of her life she has met almost every distinguished representative of literature, politics and art, and about many of them she has anecdotes to tell which have never before been made public. She has much to say of her intimate friends of an earlier day—Disraeli, the second Duke of Wellington, Bernal Osborne, Lord Ellenborough, and a dozen others—while a multitude of more modern personages pass in procession across her light-hearted pages. A reproduction of a recent crayon portrait by M. Cayron is given as frontispiece.
PERSONAL ADVENTURES AND ANECDOTES OF AN OLD OFFICER.
By Colonel JAMES P. ROBERTSON, C.B.
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The phrase ‘a charmed life’ is hackneyed, but it may be used with peculiar appropriateness to describe Colonel Robertson’s military career. ‘The history of my nose alone,’ says the cheery old soldier in his Preface, ‘would fill a chapter,’ and, indeed, not only his nose, but his whole body, seem to have spent their time in, at all events, running a risk of being seriously damaged in every possible way. The book, in fact, is simply full of fine confused fighting and hair-breadth escapes.