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iod. Among the variety of interesting documents comprised in these volumes, will be found--Letters from Frederick, King of Prussia; Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark; Princes Ferdinand of Brunswick, Kaunitz, and Czartoriski; the Dukes of Cumberland, York, Queensbury, Montagu, and Newcastle; Lords Stormont, St. Asaph, Heathfield, Hardwicke, Darlington, Auckland, Apsley, Barrington, Stair; Counts Bentinck and Rosenberg; Baron Trenck; Field-Marshals Conway and Keith; Sirs Walter Scott, Joseph Yorke, Nathaniel Wraxall, John Sebright; Dr. Robertson, Mr. Pitt, Howard, Mrs. Piozzi, Mrs. Montagu, &c., &c. "A large portion of this important and highly interesting work consists of letters, that we venture to say will bear a comparison for sterling wit, lively humour, entertaining gossip, piquant personal anecdotes, and brilliant pictures of social life, in its highest phases, both at home and abroad, with those of Horace Walpole himself."--_Court Journal._ * * * * * THE HISTORY OF CIVILISATION, AND PUBLIC OPINION, By W. A. MACKINNON, M.P., F.R.S., &c. Third and Cheaper Edition, 2 vols. 8vo., 21s., bound. "Mr. Mackinnon's valuable 'History of Civilisation' is a vast repertory of knowledge that we could wish to see universally circulated throughout the country, as tending to convey information that is much required, and of which too many are deficient."--_Morning Herald._ * * * * * REVELATIONS OF PRINCE TALLEYRAND. Edited from the Papers of the late M. COLMACHE, THE PRINCE'S PRIVATE SECRETARY. Second Edition, 1 volume, post 8vo., with Portrait, 10s. 6d. bound. "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._ * * * * * COLBURN'S AUTHORISED TRANSLATION. Now ready, Volume 9, price 7s., of M. A. THIERS' HISTORY OF THE CONSULATE AND THE EMPIRE. 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 d
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