Front matter
Reading edition
Illustrations by A. D. M’Cormick
The Novels Of Charles Lever Edited By His Daughter London Downey And Co., Limited 12 York St. Covent Garden 1898
CONTENTS
NOTICE MAURICE TIERNAY CHAPTER I. ‘THE DAYS OF THE GUILLOTINE’ CHAPTER II. THE RESTAURANT ‘AU SCELERAT’ CHAPTER III. THE ‘TEMPLE’ CHAPTER IV. ‘THE NIGHT OF THE NINTH THERMIDOR’ CHAPTER V. THE CHOICE OF A LIFE CHAPTER VI. ‘THE ARMY SIXTY YEARS SINCE’ CHAPTER VII. A PASSING ACQUAINTANCE CHAPTER VIII. ‘TRONCHON’ CHAPTER IX. A SCRAPE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER X. AN ARISTOCRATIC REPUBLICAN CHAPTER XI. ‘THE PASSAGE OF THE RHINE’ CHAPTER XII. ‘A GLANCE AT STAFF-DUTY’ CHAPTER XIII. A FAREWELL LETTER CHAPTER XIV. A SURPRISE AND AN ESCAPE CHAPTER XV. SCRAPS OF HISTORY CHAPTER XVI. AN OLD GENERAL OF THE IRISH BRIGADE CHAPTER XVII. LA ROCHELLE CHAPTER XVIII. ‘THE BAY OF BATHFRAN’ CHAPTER XIX. A RECONNAISSANCE CHAPTER XX. KILLALA CHAPTER XXI. OUR ALLIES CHAPTER XXII. THE DAY OF ‘CASTLEBAR’ CHAPTER XXIII. THE TOWN-MAJOR OF CASTLEBAR CHAPTER XXIV. THE MISSION TO THE NORTH CHAPTER XXV. A PASSING VISIT TO KILLALA CHAPTER XXVI. A REMNANT OF ‘FONTENOY’ CHAPTER XXVII. THE CRANAGH CHAPTER XXVIII. SOME NEW ACQUAINTANCES CHAPTER XXIX. THE BREAKFAST AT LETTERKENNY CHAPTER XXX. SCENE IN THE ROYAL BARRACKS CHAPTER XXXI. A BRIEF CHANGE OF LIFE AND COUNTRY CHAPTER XXXII. THE ‘ATHOL’ TENDER CHAPTER XXXIII. A BOLD STROKE FOR FAME AND FORTUNE CHAPTER XXXIV. GENOA IN THE SIEGE CHAPTER XXXV. A NOVEL COUNCIL OP WAR CHAPTER XXXVI. GENOA DURING THE SIEGE CHAPTER XXXVII. MONTE DI PACCIO CHAPTER XXXVIII. A ROYALIST ‘DE LA VIEILLE ROCHE’ CHAPTER XXXIX. A SORROWFUL PARTING CHAPTER XL. THE CHATEAU OF ETTENHEIM CHAPTER XLI. AN ‘ORDINARY’ ACQUAINTANCE CHAPTER XLII. THE ‘COUNT DE MAUREPAS,’ ALIAS———— CHAPTER XLIII. A FOREST RIDE CHAPTER XLIV. AN EPISODE OF ‘94 CHAPTER XLV. THE CABINET OF A CHEF DE POLICE CHAPTER XLVI. A GLANCE AT THE ‘PREFECTURE DE POLICE’ CHAPTER XLVII. THE VILLAGE OP SCHWARTZ-ACH CHAPTER XLVIII. A VILLAGE ‘SYNDICUS’ CHAPTER XLIX. A LUCKY MEETING CHAPTER L. THE MARCH ON VIENNA CHAPTER LI. SCHÖNBRUNN IN 1809 CHAPTER LII. KOMORN FORTY TEARS AGO CHAPTER LIII. A LOSS AND A GAIN CHAPTER LIV. MAURICE TIERNAY’S ‘LAST WORD AND CONFESSION’
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
‘Maurice Tiernay was first published as a serial in ‘The Dublin University Magazine,’ commencing in the issue for April 1850, and ending in the issue for December 1851. It was first published in book form (as a volume of The Parlour Library) with the following title-page (undated):
Maurice Tiernay | The | Soldier of Fortune | By the Author of | ‘Sir Jasper Carew’ | etc. etc. I London, | Thomas Hodgson, | 13 Paternoster Bow.
The earliest edition which has Lever’s name on the title-page is one published in Leipzig in 1861. This edition has the following title-page:
Maurice Tiernay | the | Soldier of Fortune, | by | Charles Lever, I Author of ‘Charles O’Malley,’ etc. I Copyright Edition. | In two VOLUMES | VOL. I. | LEIPZIG | BERNHARD TAUCH-NITZ I 1861.