The volumes on the women of the great Bourbon epoch, the epoch of Louis XIV. and Louis XV., when the Bourbon star was in the zenith, contain a great deal of intimate history as well as setting in relief the interesting personalities of the famous La Vallière and Montespan and that perennial historical enigma, Madame de Maintenon, in the volume devoted to the court of the “Sun King,” and those of Madame de Pompadour, Madame Dubarry, Queen Marie Leczinska, and other celebrities who made Versailles what it was during the long and varied reign of Louis XV. The study of Madame de Maintenon is a real contribution to history, and the pictures of the clever and dazzling beauties who controlled so long the destinies not only of France but measurably of Europe itself from the accession of “le Grand Monarque” to the first threatenings of the Revolution “deluge” are extremely life-like and skilfully executed. The historical chronicle of the time is by no means lost sight of by the author, but in this series even more than in his works heretofore published in English he appears not only as an interesting and impartial historian, but as a brilliant historical portraitist. FOUR NEW VOLUMES. WOMEN OF THE VALOIS AND VERSAILLES COURTS. _Each with Portraits, $1.25. Price per set, in box, cloth, $5.00; half calf, $10.00._ WOMEN OF THE VALOIS COURT. THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV. THE COURT OF LOUIS XV. THE LAST YEARS OF LOUIS XV. VOLUMES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED. _THREE VOLUMES ON MARIE ANTOINETTE._ _Each with Portrait, $1.25. Price per set, in box, cloth, $3.75; half calf, $7.50._ MARIE ANTOINETTE AND THE END OF THE OLD RÉGIME. MARIE ANTOINETTE AT THE TUILERIES. MARIE ANTOINETTE AND THE DOWNFALL OF ROYALTY. In this series is unfolded the tremendous panorama of political events in which the unfortunate Queen had so influential a share, beginning with the days immediately preceding the Revolution, when court life at Versailles was so gay and unsuspecting, continuing with the enforced journey of the royal family to Paris, and the agitating months passed in the Tuileries, and concluding with the abolition of royalty, the proclamation of the Republic, and the imprisonment of the royal family,--the initial stage of their progress to the guillotine. _THREE VOLUMES ON THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE._ _Each with Portrait, $1.25. Price per set, in box, cloth, $3.75; half calf, $7.50._ CITIZENESS BONAPARTE. THE WIFE OF THE FIRST CONSUL. THE COURT OF THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE.