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REW, AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED COMMANDERS. 2 vols., post 8vo, with Portraits, 12s. bound. "A work which cannot fail of being popular in every portion of our sea-girt isle, and of being read with delight by all who feel interested in the right hand of our country--its Navy."--_Plymouth Herald._ REVELATIONS OF PRINCE TALLEYRAND. By M. COLMACHE, THE PRINCE'S PRIVATE SECRETARY. Second Edition, 1 volume, post 8vo, with Portrait, 10s. 6d. bound. "We have perused this work with extreme interest. It is a portrait of Talleyrand drawn by his own hand."--_Morning Post._ "A more interesting work has not issued from the press for many years. It is in truth a complete Boswell sketch of the greatest diplomatist of the age."--_Sunday Times._ HISTORY OF THE WAR IN GERMANY AND FRANCE IN 1813 & 1814. By Lieut.-Gen. the MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY, G.C.B., &c. &c., 21s. Now ready, VOLUME XI., price 5s., of M. A. THIERS' HISTORY OF FRANCE, FROM THE PERIOD OF THE CONSULATE IN 1800, TO THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. A SEQUEL TO HIS HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Having filled at different times the high offices of Minister of the Interior, of Finance, of Foreign Affairs, and President of the Council, M. Thiers has enjoyed facilities beyond the reach of every other biographer of Napoleon for procuring, from exclusive and authentic sources, the choicest materials for his present work. As guardian to the archives of the state, he had access to diplomatic papers and other documents of the highest importance, hitherto known only to a privileged few, and the publication of which cannot fail to produce a great sensation. From private sources, M. Thiers, it appears, has also derived much valuable information. Many interesting memoirs, diaries, and letters, all hitherto unpublished, and most of them destined for political reasons to remain so, have been placed at his disposal; while all the leading characters of the empire, who were alive when the author undertook the present history, have supplied him with a mass of incidents and anecdotes which have never before appeared in print, and the accuracy and value of which may be inferred from the fact of these parties having been themselves eye-witnesses of, or actors in, the great events of the period. *** To prevent disappointment, the public are requested to be particular in giving their orders for "COLBURN'S AUTHORISED TRANSLATION." HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS;
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