General Gatacre Part 36

[Ill.u.s.tration: Part of CAPE COLONY and the ORANGE FREE STATE]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Map of THE SOUDAN & ABYSSINIA]

THE MILITARY MEMOIRS OF LIEUT.-GEN. SIR JOSEPH THACKWELL, G.C.B., K.H., Colonel 16th Lancers. Arranged from Diaries and Correspondence by Colonel H. C. Wylly, C.B. With Portraits, Maps, and other Ill.u.s.trations. Demy 8vo. 15s. net.

"The Memoirs of this fine old soldier, whose lot it was to see a vast amount of very hard fighting in many notable campaigns, are of quite exceptional interest.... Not only well worth reading on account of its general interest, but from which there is a very great deal to be learned."--United Service Magazine.

A MARINER OF ENGLAND. An Account of the Career of William Richardson from Cabin-Boy in the Merchant Service to Warrant Officer in the Royal Navy (1780 to 1817), told in his own words. Edited by Colonel Spencer Childers, R.B., C.B. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.

"Worth a dozen of the ordinary memoirs with which the market is flooded. For it is a genuine human doc.u.ment, a revelation of the thoughts and doings of a typical English sailorman during the most stirring years in our naval history.... We have found the book delightful reading."--Spectator.

"... Such excellent stuff, and in such racy, straightforward English ... uncommonly good reading. It makes us think of some of Captain Marryat's pictures of what they did at sea in the brave days of old."--Standard.

TWO ADMIRALS: SIR FAIRFAX MORESBY, G.C.B. (1786 to 1877), and his son, JOHN MORESBY. A Record of Life and Service in the British Navy for a hundred years. By Admiral John Moresby. Ill.u.s.trated. Demy 8vo. 14s.

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"This deeply interesting and delightfully entertaining volume."--Daily Telegraph.

"One of the most entertaining and instructive books in modern naval literature.... In every line the book smacks of the sea and of the breezy nature of the British sailor."--The Globe.

THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL SIR LEOPOLD MCCLINTOCK. By Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S With Maps and Ill.u.s.trations. Demy 8vo. 15s. net.

"No living sailor was so worthy to be the biographer of Sir Leopold McClintock as Sir Clements Markham.... Sir Clements Markham has written with much of the simplicity and reserve of the great explorer himself. Never for a moment does he diverge from quiet narrative ...

it is an inspiring record of one who did his duty as he saw it, and found the path to fame by his own fine qualities of character."--Westminster Gazette.

THE LIFE OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES W. WILSON, Royal Engineers. By Colonel Sir Charles M. Watson, K.C.M.G., C.B., R.E., M.A. With Ill.u.s.trations. Demy 8vo. 15s. net.

"There is a most interesting account of the circ.u.mstances of the time in this admirable biography, and those who would know the true story of the failure to relieve Gordon should by all means read it. He was a good soldier and a good man, and we are glad to commend this biography to soldiers who know how to appreciate the service that men like Sir Charles Wilson render to their country."--Army and Navy Gasette.

THE LIFE OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JOHN ARDAGH. By His Wife, Susan, Countess of Malmesbury (Lady Ardagh). With Ill.u.s.trations. Demy 8vo.

15s. net.

"... Lady Malmesbury has written her husband's life with rare discrimination and reticence ... exhilarating record of a splendidly strenuous life ... an admirable record of the work of a great servant of the State and it should be in the hands of every young soldier."--Athenaum.

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF SIR JAMES GRAHAM, 1792-1861. First Lord of the Admiralty in the Ministries of Lord Grey and Lord Aberdeen, and Home Secretary in the Administration of Sir Robert Peel. By Charles Stuart Parker, Editor of "Life of Sir Robert Peel." With Portraits and other Ill.u.s.trations. Two Vols. Demy 8vo. 24s. net.

LORD DUNRAVEN'S THE OUTLOOK IN IRELAND. The Case for Devolution and Conciliation. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.

LORD MILNER'S WORK IN SOUTH AFRICA. From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902. Containing hitherto Unpublished Information. By W. Basil Worsfold. With Portraits and a Map. Demy 8vo. 15s. net.

FURTHER MEMOIRS OF THE WHIG PARTY, 1807-21. By Henry Richard Va.s.sall, 3rd Lord Holland (1773-1840). With which is Incorporated a Chapter termed "Miscellaneous Reminiscences." Edited by Lord Stavordale, Editor of "The Letters of Lady Sarah Lennox." With Portraits. Demy 8vo. 18s. net.

LENNOX, LADY SARAH, THE CORRESPONDENCE OF. 1745-1826. Edited by the Countess of Ilchester and Lord Stavordale. With Photogravure Frontispiece and other Ill.u.s.trations. One Vol. 10s. 6d. net.

THE HATZFELDT LETTERS. Letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to his Wife, written from the Headquarters of the King of Prussia, 1870-71.

Translated from the French by J. L. Bashford, M.A. With Ill.u.s.trations.

Demy 8vo. 15s. net.

CHARLES JAMES FOX. A Commentary on his Life and Character. By Walter Savage Landor. Edited by Stephen Wheeler. With Photogravure Portrait.

Demy 8vo. 9s. net.

THE FIRST BRITISH AMBa.s.sADOR TO CHINA.

THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF GEORGE FIRST EARL MACARTNEY, 1737-1806.

From hitherto Unpublished Correspondence and Doc.u.ments. By Mrs. A. G.

Robbins. With Portraits and other Illutrations. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.

MOLTKE IN HIS HOME. By Friedrich August Dressier. Authorised Translation by Mrs. C. E. Barrett-Lennard. With an Introduction by Lieut.-General Lord Methuen. With Ill.u.s.trations. Demy 8vo. 6s. net.

This does not attempt to give a biography of the great Field-Marshal, but contains a series of sketches and incidents of his life, and of the characteristics and surroundings of one of the greatest soldiers of the nineteenth century.

NELSON'S HARDY. His Life, Letters, and Friends. By A. M. Broadley and the Rev. R. G. Bartelot. Many Ill.u.s.trations and Portraits, 10s. 6d.

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"A record of the beautiful human friends.h.i.+p which existed between the two men, and should be read by everybody interested in one of England's greatest heroes and in the historical incidents of his time."--The Tatler.

"The importance of this Life and Letters of Hardy is undeniable....

That Hardy is worthy of a complete biography is undoubted, and this book is a desirable possession to all who care for England's naval glories."--Daily Chronicle.

LETTERS FROM THE PENINSULA (1808-1812). Written by Lieut.-General Sir William Warre, C.B., K.T.S. Edited by the Rev. Edmond Warre, D.D., C.B. With Portrait and Map. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.

"If we wanted to choose the sort of testimony that would make the circ.u.mstances of a well-known campaign more real to us than ever before, we should undoubtedly choose the private letters of an officer to his friends.... We advise the general reader to try William Warre's letters. They will find revealed in them a stout and loyal heart, and a careful and intelligent mind which had a singular ability for discerning the drift and significance of things."--Spectator.

A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815. Lady De Lancey's Narrative. Being an account of how she nursed her husband, Colonel Sir William H. De Lancey, mortally wounded in the great battle. With Photogravure Portraits and other Ill.u.s.trations. Square crown 8vo. 6s. net.

"A vastly interesting human doc.u.ment.... We need not trouble to praise where Sir Walter Scott and Charles d.i.c.kens have so fervently belauded."--Daily Telegraph.

"Pages of writing of terrible beauty, subtlety, delicacy, and power describe her nursing of him and his death. It is not a jagged series of poignant notes.... There is no heroine in English history or literature more wors.h.i.+pful than Lady De Lancey."--World.