This third volume continues the memoirs from 1782, and will be found as
fascinating as those which have already been published. It contains much
interesting matter concerning East India in the old Colonial days, and a
number of interesting letters arising out of the retention of Hickey and
his companion, Charlotte Barry, as prisoners by the French on their way
out to Calcutta. It is possible that the work may be completed with this
volume, but a fourth volume may perhaps be necessary. The price of the
present volume has, owing to increased costs of production, been
advanced to 15s. net, and the price of the first two volumes has also
had to be increased.
_Reprints are now ready of Vol. I. (the Third Edition) and Vol. II.
(the Second Edition) (1749 to 1782), each in demy 8vo, cloth gilt,
15s. net. Vol. II. contains photogravure portraits._
A few short extracts from scores of columns of Reviews:
_The Athenæum_: "One of the most interesting eighteenth-century
documents that have appeared for some time."
_The Times_: "Fascinating for its honesty and vividness; it is
difficult to give any idea of the spontaneous vivacity of the
narration; it is of remarkable interest."
_The Spectator_: "Deserves, both for its human and historical
interest, to be widely studied."
_Daily Telegraph_: "A 'find' of really important interest, likely
to take an important place among eighteenth-century documents."
_Manchester Guardian_: "For colour and zest these memoirs would be
hard to beat; were they fiction they would be called 'unmatchable
pictures of the time.'"
_The Globe_: "A glorious book. Its period is a little later than
Tom Jones, but the splendid rollicking spirit is the same. No lover
of English literature can fail to enjoy to the utmost the virile
jolly picture it represents."
_Daily Express_: "One of the most absorbingly interesting books of
recent times."
_A delightful volume_
By LADY CATHERINE MILNES GASKELL
A Woman's Soul
By the Author of "Friends Round the Wrekin," "A Shropshire Lass and
Lad," etc.
_In demy, cloth_, +16s.+ _net_.
Under a thin guise of fiction Lady Catherine Milnes Gaskell has written
a most sympathetic and entertaining account of her experiences during
the war, and those of her friends and neighbours. Like many other ladies
of position she threw herself heart and soul into the every-day drudgery
of hospital work and the numerous duties of those who undertook the
responsibilities of large country estates in the absence of their
owners; and she gives us in a most delightful story a very true insight
into the activities, thoughts and feelings of a class which did a great
deal of war work, and said very little about it.
Her previous books have already established her as a close observer of
human nature and a writer with a wide, tolerant outlook and a style of
unusual distinction.
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