“The value of the book is in its matter and its facts. If written upon any country it would have been useful, but treating of one like Spain, about which we know almost nothing, but of which it is desirable to know so much, Captain Cook’s Sketches must be considered an acquisition to the library.”——Spectator.
MEMOIR
BY GENERAL SIR HEW DALRYMPLE, BART.
OF HIS PROCEEDINGS
AS CONNECTED WITH THE AFFAIRS OF SPAIN,
AND THE
COMMENCEMENT OF THE PENINSULAR WAR.
In one vol. 8vo. price 9s. boards.
“The care bestowed upon this subject by Sir Hew Dalrymple is evident in the publication before us, which is unquestionably a most dignified, clear, and satisfactory vindication of Sir Hew’s motives and conduct, and forms, with the documents in the Appendix, a very valuable and authentic addition to the materials for the history of the period in question. Without a participation in the facts it discloses, the records of the war, as far as regards this particular subject, are, in fact, incomplete or distorted.”——United Service Journal.