BY LORD MAHON.
Post 8vo. 3s.
"This is a very comprehensive and lively sketch of the famous 'Rebellion' so vividly remembered, even after the lapse of a century, by the people of Scotland. The incidents of that unfortunate invasion from first to last, from the landing of Charles (July 25th) in Borrodale, with the 'seven men of Moidart,' to the fatal battle of Culloden (16th April, 1746), are minutely and faithfully recorded; but we have no doubt the reader will be most and mainly interested in the personal history and adventures of the Pretender himself. The character of the Prince is admirably drawn, and generously vindicated from the calumnies heaped upon him by his adversaries after his fall. It will perhaps surprise some to learn, that he was so illiterate as scarcely to be master of the most common elements of education. 'His letters,' says Lord Mahon, 'which I have seen among the Stuart papers, are written in a large, rude, rambling hand, like a schoolboy's. In spelling they are still more deficient.' We recommend Lord Mahon's narrative as a very agreeable sketch of a stirring and eventful period."—Edinburgh Advertiser.
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A HISTORY OF GREECE.
FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE END OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.
BY GEORGE GROTE, ESQ.
Vols. I.-VIII. With Maps. 8vo. 16s. each.
- Vols. I.-II.
- Legendary Greece.
- Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens.
- Vols. III.-IV.
- History of Early Athens, and the Legislation of Solon.
- Grecian Colonies.
- View of the Contemporary Nations surrounding Greece.
- Grecian History down to the first Persian Invasion, and the Battle of Marathon.
- Vols. V.-VI.
- Persian War and Invasion of Greece by Xerxes.
- Period between the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars.
- Peloponnesian War down to the Expedition of the Athenians against Syracuse.
- Vols. VII.-VIII.
- The Peace of Nikias down to the Battle of Knidus [b.c. 421 to 394.]
- Socrates and the Sophists.