“His work will create a fresh interest in events, which, before reading, we thought impossible.”—Naval and Military Gazette.
“It is Cæsar’s Commentaries in the first person.”—Spectator.
“Candid to a degree, and sincere as a sailor’s will. This is the very stuff of which history should be composed.”—Bell’s Messenger.
“If Admiral Napier be not distinguished by the common-place facilities of authorship, he possesses the higher qualities of truth, discretion, and clear-sightedness, in no slight degree.”—Atlas.
“In speaking of himself and his deeds, he has hit the just and difficult medium—shewing his real feelings, yet steering clear of affected modesty on the one hand, and of overweening modesty on the other.”—Tait’s Magazine.
“This is a very graphic account of the affairs in which the gallant author figured so nobly, and added fresh lustre to the name of Napier.”—News.
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THE NURSERY GOVERNESS;
By ELIZABETH NAPIER,
Published after her Death by her Husband, Col. C. J. Napier, C.B.
“Hear the instructions of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.”—Proverbs, ch. i. v. 8.
“This is an admirable little book.”—True Sun.