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 4 A CATALOGUE OF LIFE OF LORD CHESTERFIELD. An account of the Ancestry, Personal Character, and Public Services of the Fourth Earl of Chesterfield. By W. H. CRAIG, M.A. Numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 1 2s. 6d. net. Daily Telegraph. "Mr. Craig has set out to present him (Lord Chesterfield) as one of the striking figures of a formative period in our modern history . . . and has succeeded in giving us a very attractive biography of a remarkable man." Times. " It is the chief point of Mr. Craig's book to show the sterling qualities which Chesterfield was at too much pains in concealing, to reject the perishable trivialities of his character, and to exhibit him as a philosophic statesman, not inferior to any of his contemporaries, except Walpole at one end of his life, and Chatham at the other." Daily Graphic. "Reparation was due to Lord Chesterfield's memory; and this book which at last does him justice is a notable contribution to historical biography." Saturday Review. "Mr. W. H. Craig's book is the first connected account of the public life of Lord Chesterfield, and the most elaborate attempt to appreciate his value as a serious statesman." Standard. " Mr. Craig has written an interesting book." A QUEEN OF INDISCRETIONS. The Tragedy of Caroline of Brunswick, Queen of England. From the Italian of G. P. CLERICI. Translated by FREDERIC CHAPMAN. With numerous Illustrations reproduced from contemporary Portraits and Prints. Demy 8vo. 2 is. net. The Daily Telegraph. " It could scarcely be done more thoroughly or, on the whole, in better taste than is here displayed by Professor Clerici. Mr Frederic Chapman himself contributes an uncommonly interesting and well-informed introduction." Westminster Gazette, "The volume, scholarly and well-informed . . . forms one long and absorbingly interesting chapter of the ckronique scandalcuse of Court life . . . reads like a romance, except that no romancer would care or dare to pack his pages so closely with startling effects and fantastic scenes." The Times. "Signer Clerici has brought to his task immense pains, lucidity, and an impartiality of mind which does not prevent a definite view from emerging. Mr. Chap- man has done the translation admirably well, and his own introduction is a careful assistance to thoroughness." Academy. "Caroline's life was an astounding romance, . . . Mr. Chapman especially lends colour to her adventures in his clever introduction by the way in which he shows how, for all her genius for mischief, and for all her tricks and wantonness. Caroline never lost a curious charm which made her buoyancy and reckless spirit lovable to the last." LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOWE. Edited by his Daughter LAURA E. RICHARDS. With Notes and a Preface by F. B. SANBORN, an Introduction by Mrs. JOHN LANE, and a Portrait. Demy 8vo (9 x 5 J inches). i6s. net. Outlook. "This deeply interesting record of experience. The volume is worthily produced and contains a striking portrait of Howe." Dundee Advertiser. " The picturesque, animated, and deeply interesting story of his career is now open in a considerable volume entitled 'Letters and Journals of Samuel Griuley Howe during the Greek Revolution.' This is helpfully edited by his daughter Laura E. Richards, and has an introduction and notes by his old friend, F. B. Sanborn, besides an illuminating preface by Mrs. John Lane . . . The journals are written with sincerity and realism. They pulsate with the emotions of life amidst the difficulties, privations, and horrors of the battle march, siege and defeat." Daily Neivs." Dr. Howe's book is full of shrewd touches ; it seems to be very much a part of the lively, handsome man of the portrait. His writing is striking and vivid ; it is the writing of a shrewd, keen observer, intensely interested in the event before him. When- ever his attention is arrested he writes with living force."