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 A FRIEND OF THE QUEEN. (Marie Antoinette— Count de Fenen.) By Paxjl Gaulot. With Two Portraits. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.

"M. Gaulot deserves thanks for presenting the personal history of Count Fersen in a manner so evidently candid and unbiased."— Phialdelhia Bulletin.

"There are some characters in history of whom we never seem to grow tired. Of no one is this so much the case as of the beautiful Marie Antoinette, and of that life which is at once so eventful and so tragic. ... In this work we have much that up to the present time has been only vaugely lnown"—Philadelphia Press.

"A historical volume that will be eagerly read."— New York Observer.

"One of those captivating recitals of the romance of truth which are the gilding of the pill of history."—London Daily News.

It tells with new and authentic details the romantic story of Count Fersen's (the Friend of the Queen) devotion to Marie Antoinette, of his share in the celebrated flight to Varennes. and in many other well-known episodes of the unhappy Queen's life."— London Times,

"If the book had no more recommendation than the mere fact that Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen are rescued at last from the voluminous and contradictorv representations with which the literature of that period abounds, it would be enough compensation to any reader to become acquainted with the true delineations of two of the most romantically tragic personalities."— Boston Globe,

THE ROMANCE OF AN EMPRESS, Catharine II of Russia, By K. Waliszewski. With Portrait. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00

"Of Catharine's marvelous career we have in this volume a sympathetic, learned, and picturesque narrative. No royal career, not even of some of the Roman or papal ones, has better shown us how truth can be stranger than fiction."— New York Times,

"A striking and able work, deserving of the highest praise"— Philadelphia Ledger,

"The book is well called a romance, for, although no legends are admitted in it, and the author has been at pains to present nothing but verified fiicts, the actual career of die subject was so abnormal and sensational as to seem to belong to fiction."— New York Sun.

"A dignified, handsome, mdeed superb volume, and well worth careful reading."— Chicago Herald.

"It is a most wonderful story, charmingly told, with new material to sustain it, and a breadth and temperance and consideration that so far to soften one's estimate of one of the most extraordinary women of history."

—New York Commercial Advertiser.

"The perusal of such a book can not fail to add to that breadth of view which is so essential to the student of universal history."— Philadpelphia Bulletin.

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