ce. In this way it will be of
service to any one who reads it."--_From the New York Evening
Post._

"There is a striking contrast between this volume and the Greville
Memoirs, which relate to a period in English history immediately
preceding Prince Albert's marriage with Queen Victoria. Radical
changes were effected in court-life by Victoria's accession to the
throne.... In the work before us, which is the unfolding of a
model home-life, a life in fact unrivaled in the abodes of modern
royalty, there is nothing but what the purest mind can read with
real pleasure and profit.

"Mr. Martin draws a most exquisite portraiture of the married life
of the royal pair, which seems to have been as nearly perfect as
any thing human can be. The volume closes shortly after the
Revolution of 1848, at Paris, when Louis Philippe and his hapless
queen were fleeing to England in search of an asylum from the
fearful forebodings which overhung their pathway. It was a trying
time for England, but, says Mr. Martin with true dramatic effect
in the closing passages of his book: 'When the storm burst, it
found him prepared. In rising to meet the difficulties of the
hour, the prince found the best support in the cheerful courage of
the queen,' who on the 4th of April of that same year wrote to
King Leopold: 'I never was calmer and quieter or less nervous.
Great events make me calm; it is only trifles that irritate my
nerves.' Thus ends the first volume of one of the most important
biographies of the present time. The second volume will follow as
soon as its preparation can be effected."--_From the Hartford
Evening Post._

D. APPLETON & CO., PUBLISHERS, 549 & 551 Broadway, N. Y.

Transcriber's Notes

A few words are variably hyphenated. They are unchanged from the
original. They include uredospores, subglobose, and puffballs.

Page 23 footnote K:
a genus of parasitic Sph[oe]riaceous fungi.
changed to
a genus of parasitic Sphaeriaceous fungi.

Page 29
HYPOG[OE]I.--These are subterranean
and
The hypog[oe]ous fungi are curiously connected
Changed [oe] to ae to match others in text.

Page 95
informs us that he has eaten _Boletus lurdius_
changed to
informs us that he has eaten _Boletus luridus_

Page 188
separate themselves by a partion from the sterigma
changed to
separate themselves by a partition from the sterigma

Page 205
like relations to othe