INTERESTING NEW WORKS,
Just Published by Mr. Colburn, to be had of all Booksellers.
i.
LADY HESTER STANHOPE ’S MEMOIRS,
RELATED BY HERSELF.
Three vols., with Portraits . Price Sis. Oil. bound.
“ Extremely amusing volumes. Lady Hester Stanhope possessed a rapid and deep insightinto human character, and her remarks upon the distinguished persons with whom she was ac-quainted, as well as the many travellers who visited her at Joon, are always pointed and search-ing, if not always just. All the passages relating to her uncle, Mr. Pitt, are of striking interest,and her strictures upon the character and conduct of the politicians and intriguants of the dayare irresistibly amusing and forcible.”— Morning Chronicle.
II,
DIARY AND MEMOIRS OF SOPHIA DOROTHEA ,
Including Selections from her Correspondence. Now first published fromthe Originals. Two vols. 8vo, with Portraits , 28s. bound.
u We have never taken up any historical work more abounding with the romance of real fife.'*
Messenger.
III.
MEMOIRS OF PRINCE CHARLES STUART ,
Commonly called “The Young Pretender .” With Notices of the Rebellion in 1743.
By C. L. KLOSE, Esq. In two volumes 8vo, with Portrait , 24s. hound.
** A valuable addition to our historical literature .”—John Bull.
•• This work may justly claim the credit of being the fullest and most authentic narrative ofthis great era of English history.*’— Messenger.
rv.
VOLUME VIIT. OF MISS STRICKLAND’S
LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND.
“ The eighth volume of this most interesting and valuable work contains the Lives of twoQueens who played a very prominent part in the most remarkable era of English history—namely, Henrietta Maria , the wife of Charles I. , and Catherine of Braganza , the wife of Charles 11.The picture which Miss Strickland draws of the domestic life of Charles I. and his unfortunatebut highly talented and accomplished Queen, is fascinating in the extreme. The life of Cathe rine is equally full of interesting and entertaining matter. The work, when completed, will beone of the most valuable additions that for many years has been made to the library of thehistorian.”—Sunday Times.
N.B. New and Revised Editions of the First Seven Volumes are also now ready,price 10s. (id. each, bound, with Illustrations.
A COMPANION TO « THE PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE ”
Now in course of publication, in Four Parts, price 10s. fid. each, (Three of which haveappeared,) beautifully printed in double columns,
HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY:
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OF THE
WHOLE OF THE LANDED GENTRY, OR UNTITLED ARISTOCRACY OFENGLAND, SCOTLAND , AND IRELAND .
By JOHN BURKE , Esq., Author of “ The Peerage and Baronetage,” &o., andJOHN BERNARD BURKE , Esq., of the Middle Temple , Barrister -at Law .
This work relates to the Untitled Families of Rank, as the “ Peerage and Baronetage"does to the Titled, and forms, in fact, a Peerage of the Untitled Aristocracy,