In Three Volumes, 12mo.
PETER SIMPLE;
OR, ADVENTURES OF A MIDSHIPMAN.
COMPLETE.
By the Author of the “King’s Own,” “Naval Officer,” &c.
“The quiet humour which pervades the work is irresistibly amusing, and the fund of anecdote and description which it contains, entertaining. The humour sometimes approaches to downright burlesque, and the incident to extravagance, if not improbability; but, altogether, as a book of amusement, it is excellent.”—Baltimore Gazette.
“Those who are the most competent to judge, say that Captain Marryatt is altogether superior to any other writer of naval sketches or descriptions, living or dead.”—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
“This is the best work that Captain Marryatt has produced.”—Atlas.
“‘Peter Simple’ is certainly the most amusing of Captain Marryatt’s amusing novels; a species of picture quite unique; a class by themselves, full of humour, truth, and graphic sketches.”—Literary Gazette.
“This is an admirable work, and worthy of the noble service it is written to illustrate.”—Spectator.
CELEBRATED TRIALS,
AND
CASES OF CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE OF ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES.
In One large volume, 8vo., containing 600 closely printed pages.
CONTENTS.
John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt, for the murder of William Ware, at Hertford, January, 1824.