"Of all our female historico-biographical writers, Mrs. Hall seems to us to be one of the most painstaking, erudite, and variously and profoundly accomplished. Her valuable volumes contain not only the lives of the Queens before the Conquest, but a very excellent history of England previously to the Norman dynasty." BELL'S MESSENGER. "These interesting volumes have been compiled with judgment, discretion, and taste. Mrs. Hall has spared neither pains nor labour to make her history worthy of the characters she has essayed to illustrate. The book is, in every sense, an addition of decided value to the annals of the British people." NEW QUARTERLY REVIEW. "These volumes have long been a desideratum, and will be hailed as a useful, and indeed essential, introduction to Miss Strickland's world-famous biographical history." THE PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. BY SIR BERNARD BURKE, ULSTER KING OF ARMS. A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED FROM THE PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS OF THE NOBILITY, &c. With 1500 Engravings of ARMS. In 1 vol. (comprising as much matter as twenty ordinary volumes), 38s. bound. * * * * * The following is a List of the Principal Contents of this Standard Work:-- I. A full and interesting history of each order of the English Nobility, showing its origin, rise, titles, immunities, privileges, &c. II. A complete Memoir of the Queen and Royal Family, forming a brief genealogical History of the Sovereign of this country, and deducing the descent of the Plantagenets, Tudors, Stuarts, and Guelphs, through their various ramifications. To this section is appended a list of those Peers and others who inherit the distinguished honour of Quartering the Royal Arms of Plantagenet. III. An Authentic table of Precedence. IV. A perfect HISTORY OF ALL THE PEERS AND BARONETS, with the fullest details of their ancestors and descendants, and particulars respecting every collateral member of each family, and all intermarriages, &c. V. The Spiritual Lords. VI. Foreign Noblemen, subjects by birth of the British Crown. VII. Extinct Peerages, of which descendants still exist. VIII. Peerages claimed. IX. Surnames of Peers and Peeresses, with Heirs Apparent and Presumptive. X. Courtesy titles of Eldest Sons. XI. Peerages of the Three Kingdoms in order of Precedence. XII. Baronets in order of Precedence. XIII. Privy Councillors of England and Ireland. XIV. Daughters of Peers married to Commoners. XV. ALL THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD, with every Knight and all the Knights Bachelors. XVI. Mottoes translated, with poetical illustrations. * * * * * "The most complete, the most convenient, and the cheapest work of the kind ever given to the public."--_Sun_. "The best genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, and the first authority on all questions affecting the aristocracy."--_Globe_.