Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 3 of 3)Scargill, William Pitt
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Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 3 of 3)
Scargill, William Pitt
Epistolary fiction; Women -- Conduct of life -- Fiction; Women -- Education -- Fiction
“Among a multitude of other scenes and characters
sketched in this novel with great brilliance
and effect, will be found:--A Presentation at
Court--Westminster School--Country Gentlemen--Methodist
Ladies--Lancers--Hussars--Guardsmen--Oxford--Duels--The
Continent--The Opera and the Danseuses--Almack’s--Aristocratic
Summer Parties--Fashionable Archery--Invitations--Drawing
Rooms--Melton Mowbray--Dandies--Quadrilling--Gaming-houses--The
Exhibition--Flirtation--Long’s--Foreign Fashionables--Watering
Places, &c. &c.”
14. TRUCKLEBOROUGH HALL; a SATIRICAL NOVEL. In 3 vols. post 8vo. 28s. 6d.
“This is an extremely piquant and ingenious satire on
politicians of all parties and denominations. In its pages, the
aristocratical, gentlemanly, twaddling whig; the interested,
profligate tory; the democratical declaimer; the pompous, empty
man in office; and though last, not least, the surfeited and
satisfied high churchman; all figure in their most ludicrous
phrases--nor should we omit to mention, that the conceited
utilitarian comes in for his share of ridicule; which, though
brief, is of a pleasant pungency. Such a book is much to our
tastes, as we infinitely prefer laughing at the extravagancies of
the world, to bewailing them.”--_London Magazine._
15. THE GERMAN NOVELISTS: Tales selected from ancient and modern Authors
in that Language, from the earliest period to the close of the Eighteenth
Century; with Critical and Biographical Notices. By THOMAS ROSCOE, Esq.
In 4 vols. post 8vo. 38s.
16. DE VAVASOUR: a Tale of the Fourteenth Century, 3 vols. post 8vo. 31s.
6d.
“We feel confident in stating that this tale is the production of
Lord Blessington.”--_Literary Gazette, May 1826._
“His Lordship has chosen a remote era, and has carried to his
investigation the light-hearted, and, we were about to say,
insolent spirit of curiosity which characterizes the modern
temper; and accordingly he has drawn a picture, which we feel
to be unusual, but are inclined to suspect may be true.”--_New
Monthly Magazine, June, 1826._
17. SANDOVAL; or, the Freemason. A Tale of the Spanish Revolution. By the
Author of “Don Esteban.” In 3 vols. post 8vo. 28s. 6d.
This Work is the production of a Spanish gentleman, who was
personally concerned in the scenes he describes. The private
history of the Court at Madrid--the Amours of its imbecile
Monarch--the Lives and Luxuries of the Monks--the Atrocities of
the Magistracy, and the horrible system of Espionage--are all
unmasked with great dramatic effect.
18. RICHMOND; or, SCENES in the Life of a BOW-STREET OFFICER; drawn from
his private Memoranda. 3 vols. post 8vo. 28s. 6d.
“Some be’th of war and some of woe,
And some of fun and fudge also,
Some of escapes and guile and death;
Also of Love forsooth there be’th.”
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