“It is as interesting as a novel.”—Blackburn Standard.
“We are indebted to Mr. Andrews for an invaluable addition to our library of folk-lore, and we do not think that many who take it up will skip a single page.”—Dundee Advertiser.
“A thoroughly excellent volume.”—Publishers’ Circular.
“Very interesting.”—To-Day.
“Mr. Andrews is too practised an historian not to have made the most of his subject.”—Review of Reviews.
“A handsomely got up and interesting volume.”—The Fireside.
The Prime Minister of Würtemburg.
By ELLER,
Author of “Ingatherings.”
Crown 8vo. Bound in cloth extra, 3s. 6d.
“This anonymously-written story is of much power, and presents to us a picture of the Government in Würtemburg a hundred and sixty years ago, when the reigning Duke Alexandra, in his indulgence and foolishly fond treatment of his Cabinet Minister and Finance Director, the Jew Siece, has placed his subjects at the mercy of a crafty and designing man. How his object to overthrow the hero of the story, Gustave Lanbek, and his father, by forcing him to take an office which would bring him the contempt of his friends and the hatred of the people, was ultimately frustrated by the encompassing of his own ruin, is a plot which is developed and completed in a most dramatic manner. There is, too, a thread of love-making, the course of which runs by no means smoothly, deftly introduced into the main theme of the story, which lightens and relieves the plot. The book is one which we have thoroughly enjoyed, and both author and publishers are to be complimented upon the production of a volume effectively written and attractively printed and bound.”—Norfolk Chronicle.