Volume 3 — PUBLISHER ADVERTISEMENTS

13, Great Marlborough Street.

MR. COLBURN HAS JUST PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING NEW WORKS OF FICTION.

I. THE COURTIER’S DAUGHTER. By Lady Stepney. 3 vols.

II. SHAKSPEARE AND HIS FRIENDS; OR, THE GOLDEN DAYS OF MERRY ENGLAND. 3 vols. post 8vo.

III. MEN OF CHARACTER. By Douglas Jerrold, Esq. 3 vols. post 8vo. with numerous Characteristic Illustrations after Thackeray.

“We must admonish thee, my worthy friend, (for perhaps thy heart may be better than thy head) not to condemn a character as a bad one because it is not perfectly a good one. If thou dost delight in these models of perfection, there are books enow written to gratify thy taste; but as we have not in the course of our conversation ever happened to meet with any such person, we have not chosen to introduce any such here.”—Fielding.

IV. ROYSTON GOWER; OR, THE DAYS OF KING JOHN. By Thomas Miller, Author of “A Day in the Woods,” &c. 3 vols. post 8vo.

“Mr. Miller has produced an extraordinary work. He has put life and blood into the time of King John. Knights, Barons, Priests, and high-born Damsels carry on the stirring plot through Court and Camp, Judgment Seat and conflict, intrigue and wassail—the whole is a vivid picture of a memorable period.”—Literary Gazette.

V. RAFF HALL. By Robert Sulivan, Esq. 3 vols.

“A singular work; full of merit and amusement.”—Dispatch. “A very lively, pleasant book. We have pleasure in doing justice to Mr. Sullivan’s wit, and to the good feeling which animates his work; it is humorous without being gross, and sensible without conceit or pretence.”—Atlas.

VI. LOVE; A NOVEL By Lady Charlotte Bury. Author of “Flirtation,” “The Divorced,” &c. 3 vols.

“Oh, love! what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah! why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh?”—Byron.

VII. JANE LOMAX; OR, A MOTHER’S CRIME. By the Author of “Brambletye House,” &c. 3 vols. post 8vo.

“In ‘Jane Lomax’ Mr. Smith has broken fresh ground. He comes before us with a novel either defying or disdaining all the old sources of interest. He takes human beings in positions humble yet natural, exposed to circumstances trying to the heart and tempting to the passions, and, in a terrible career, exhibits the advance of crime through the fears and affections.”—New Monthly.

VIII. MISS LANDON’S NEW NOVEL, ETHEL CHURCHILL; OR, THE TWO BRIDES. A Story of the Reign of George II. 3 vols.

“Such a record of female sentiment and passion as has hardly been published since the days of Corinne.”—Times. “No writer less gifted than L. E. L. could have produced these exquisite, affecting, and brilliant volumes.”—Morning Post.

IX. MRS. GORE’S NOVELETTES; comprising—

Mary Raymond—The Abbey—Xaviera—Pierre l’Ecrevissier—Burgher of St. Gall—The Scrap Stall—The Soldier’s Return—Le Lit de Veille—The Miller of Corbeil—The Champion—Dorothea—Now or Never—St. John of the Island—Verex—Sir Roger de Coverley’s Picture Gallery—Wine—Napoleon at Fontainebleau—Lady Evelyn’s Three Trials—La Tarantala—The Hair-Market of Evreux—Victoria.

In 3 vols. post 8vo.

X. UNCLE HORACE

By the Authoress of “Sketches of Irish Character,” “The Buccaneer,” &c.—In 3 vols. post 8vo.

“Mrs. Hall’s new and delightful novel, bearing the title of ‘Uncle Horace,’ more than sustains the high reputation of its popular writer. Its bachelor hero, ‘Uncle Horace,’ is a capital and original sketch—more truly and emphatically English than any character of the kind we are acquainted with. This delightful work deserves to attain a popularity not surpassed by that of any female writer of the day.”—Globe.

XI. STORIES OF SPANISH LIFE. Edited by Lieut.-Col. Craufurd , Grenadier Guards. 2 vols. post 8vo.

XII. VIOLET: A TALE 2 vols. post. 8vo. “A perfect revival of the genius of Inchbald.”—Examiner.

XIII. STOKESHILL PLACE; OR, THE MAN OF BUSINESS. By the Authoress of “Mrs. Armytage,” &c. Second Edition, 3 vols. post 8vo.

“This new novel will increase the already well-earned reputation of Mrs. Gore. It is extremely well written. Mrs. Gore depicts the conventional characters of society, and the secret springs by which human motives are governed, with equal felicity. An excellent moral is elicited by the events and the catastrophe of ‘Stokeshill-place.’”—Times.

XIV. HUMAN LIFE By the Author of “Tremaine,” and “De Vere.” Second Edition, 3 vols.

XV. THE DIVORCED. By Lady Charlotte Bury. Authoress of “Flirtation,” &c. 2 vols. post 8vo. 18s.

HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, AND TRAVELS.

I. QUEEN ELIZABETH, AND HER TIMES. Illustrated by A SERIES OF ORIGINAL LETTERS,

Selected from the inedited Private Correspondence of the Lord Treasurer Burghley, the Great Earl of Leicester, the Secretaries Walsingham and Smith, Sir Christopher Hatton, and most of the Distinguished Persons of the Period,

Now first Published from the Originals, In 2 vols. 8vo., with Portraits.

II. LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ADMIRAL EARL ST. VINCENT. By Captain Brenton, R.N., Author of “The Naval History of Great Britain,” &c. 2 vols. 8vo. with Portrait.

III. SOUTH AMERICA AND THE PACIFIC. COMPRISING A JOURNEY ACROSS THE PAMPAS AND THE ANDES, FROM BUENOS AYRES TO VALPARAISO, LIMA, AND PANAMA, &c. By the Hon. P. Campbell Scarlett. In 2 vols. post 8vo., with numerous Illustrations.

IV. DIARY OF THE TIMES OF GEORGE IV. WITH NUMEROUS ORIGINAL LETTERS OF QUEEN CAROLINE, AND OTHER ROYAL OR DISTINGUISHED PERSONS. 2 vols. 8vo.

“This work opens to our view the secret history of our Court and of our Royal Family, for more than half a century. A perusal of these important volumes will not tend, however, to raise either Courts or Royalty in the public estimation. A number of the letters, anecdotes, and private memoranda, written when the unhappy Princess was in Italy, are very entertaining, and are full of exposures of politicians and intriguers of every description.”—Dispatch.

V. THE RIVER AND THE DESART. By Miss Pardoe, Author of “The City of the Sultan,” &c. Two vols. post 8vo., with numerous Illustrations.

VI. THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH’S PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE: Illustrative of the Court and Times of Queen Anne, (Now first published from the Originals,) WITH HER SKETCHES AND OPINIONS OF HER CONTEMPORARIES. 2 vols. 8vo., with Portraits.

“This is a very delightful work. We have closed the volumes with a confirmed impression that in many of the highest points of conduct, courage, and understanding, the Duchess of Marlborough was the most remarkable woman of her own or any other day.”—Examiner.

VII. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOSEPH HOLT, GENERAL OF THE IRISH REBELS IN 1798. Edited from his Original MS. in the possession of Sir W. Betham, Ulster King at Arms, Keeper of the Irish Records, &c. By T. Crofton Croker, Esq. In 2 vols. 8vo., with Portrait.

“We have read this work with great interest and satisfaction. It is a most remarkable piece of Autobiography, teeming with romantic incidents.”—Chronicle.

VIII. THE CITY OF THE SULTAN; OR, DOMESTIC LIFE IN TURKEY. By Miss Pardoe, Authoress of “Traits and Traditions of Portugal,” &c. Second Edition. 3 vols. post 8vo., with 18 Illustrations.

IX. CAPT. SPENCER’S TRAVELS IN CIRCASSIA, &c. SECOND EDITION. With the AUTHOR’S REPLY TO THE “QUARTERLY REVIEW.” 2 vols. 8vo., with numerous Illustrations.

New and cheaper Edition, with considerable Additions. NOW PUBLISHING, IN SIX MONTHLY PARTS, Price 7s. 6d. each,

MEMOIRS OF THE BEAUTIES OF THE COURT OF CHARLES II. With an INTRODUCTORY VIEW OF THE STATE OF FEMALE SOCIETY, AND ITS INFLUENCE DURING THAT REMARKABLE REIGN, By Mrs. Jameson, Authoress of “Characteristics of Women,” &c. COMPRISING A SERIES OF TWENTY-ONE SPLENDID PORTRAITS,

Illustrating the Diaries of Pepys, Evelyn, Clarendon, and other contemporary writers of that gay and interesting period, engraved by the most distinguished artists, from Drawings made by order of her late Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte.

The following is a brief descriptive List of the Portraits comprised in this Work, which supplies what has long been a desideratum in the fine arts, and forms a desirable Companion to “Lodge’s Portraits.”

Catherine of Braganza, the unhappy and slighted wife of Charles.

Lady Castlemaine, afterwards Duchess of Cleveland, the haughty enslaver of the monarch.

La Belle Hamilton, Countess De Grammont, one of the ancestors of the Jerningham family.

The gentle and blameless Countess of Ossory, interesting from her beauty, her tenderness, and her feminine virtues.

Nell Gwynne, merry and open-hearted, who, with all her faults, was at least exempt from the courtly vice of hypocrisy.

The beautiful and wealthy Duchess of Somerset, the wife of three successive husbands, one of whom encountered a tragical fate.

The noted Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond, whose marriage was the immediate cause of Lord Clarendon’s disgrace.

Miss Lawson, mild and gentle, yet opposing the fortitude of virtue to the perils of a licentious Court.

The Countess of Chesterfield, one of the fair principals of De Grammont’s celebrated story of the “bas verts.”

The Countess of Southesk, whose faults, follies, and miseries, constitute a tale well fitted to “point a moral.”

The interesting and exemplary Countess of Rochester.

The beauteous and arrogant Lady Denham, interesting from the poetical fame of her husband, and her own tragical fate.

The magnificent Lady Bellasys, renowned for her beauty, wit, and spirit.

Mrs. Nott, fair, sentimental, and Madonna-like.

Anne Digby, Countess of Sutherland, beautiful and blameless, the friend of the angelic Lady Russell, and of the excellent Evelyn.

The fair Coquette, Mrs. Middleton.

Miss Bagot, the irreproachable wife of two libertine Lords.

The fair, the elegant, and fascinating Miss Jennings, “who robbed the men of their hearts, the women of their lovers, and never lost herself.”

The Duchess of Portsmouth, one of the most absolute of Royal favourites.

The Countess of Northumberland, distinguished for her uncommon grace and beauty, and the blameless tenor of her life.

And the Duchess of Devonshire, fair, kind, and true, and wedded to a Nobleman, who, to the valour and bearing of a Paladin of old Romance, added the spirit of an ancient Roman.