, 12mo, cloth extra,
$1.00.

When the famous historian issued these lays, which have since become
classics, it was a literary surprise, for no one thought that he was
also a poet of such high degree. His poetry is the rythmical outflow of
a vigorous and affluent writer, given to splendor of diction and
imagery in his flowing prose. Stedman said of this volume, "the lays
have to me a charm, and to almost every healthy young mind are an
immediate delight."

NAPOLEON.--Las Cases' Napoleon. Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and
Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. By the Count de Las Cases, with
8 steel portraits, maps, and illustrations. 4 vols., 12 mo, 400 pages
each, cloth, $5.00; half calf extra, $10.00.

With his son the Count devoted himself at St. Helena to the care of the
Emperor and passed his evenings in recording his remarks. Commenting in
a letter to Lucian Bonaparte on the treatment to which Napoleon was
subjected, he was arrested by the English authorities and sent away and
imprisoned.

NAPOLEON.--O'Meara's Napoleon in Exile; or A Voice from St. Helena.
Opinions and Reflections of Napoleon on the Most Important Events in
his Life and Government in his own words. By Barry E. O'Meara, his late
Surgeon. Portrait of Napoleon, after Delaroche, and a view of St.
Helena, both on steel. 2 vols., 12mo, cloth, $2.50; half calf extra,
$5.00.

Mr. O'Meara's works contains a body of the most interesting and
valuable information--information the accuracy of which stands
unimpeached by any attacks, made against its author. The details in Las
Cases' work and those of Mr. O'Meara mutually support each other.

NAPIER'S PENINSULA WAR.--The History of the War in the Peninsula. By
Major-Gen. Sir W. F. P. Napier. With 55 maps and plans of battles, 5
portraits on steel, and a complete index. An elegant Library Edition. 5
vols., 8vo, $7.50; half calf, $18.00.

Acknowledged to be the most valuable record of that war which England
waged against the power of Napoleon. The most ample testimony has been
borne to the accuracy of the historian's statements, and to the
diligence and acuteness with which he has collected his materials.

NELL GWYN, The Story of, and the Sayings of Charles the Second, related
and collated by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A. With fine portrait and 11
extra engravings, 8vo, cloth extra, $3.50.

An exceedingly interesting memoir relating to the times of Charles II.
Pepys in writing about Nell Gwyn called her "Pret