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1 * In the press , nearl y ready , in 2 vols . demy 8 vo . FREDERIC 11 . & MARIA THERESA . From hitherto Unpublished DocumentSj 1740-1742 . By the DUC DE BROGLIE , MEMBER OF THE FEENCH ACADEMY , & c . Extract from a long review in the EDINBURGH REVIEW for April 1883 . c The Duke de Broglie has given us a book , charming in itself , and most interesting from the new light which it throws on the obscure transactions it describes . These volumes are history , not satire ; but as the words and the deeds of Frederic are compared and contrasted in them with an exactness never before attained , we learn to separate the true from the false , and to distinguish the Frederic of fact from the Frederic of fiction . As a Frenchman , the Duke de Broglie has naturally no bias in favour of the Prussian King ; but he is equally free from bias in favour of the French Government . He examines and condemns , with equal rigour and severity , the mean , weak , short-sighted policy of Fleury and the hypocritical rapacity of Frederic . The story is a gloomy one ; it is a record of folly , of wickedness , and of treachery , such as have seldom been equalled ; it is worked out with close attention to accuracy in even minute details ; and , with a rare and poetic feeling , it gives an enthralling , interest to what has sometimes been considered a dull , and what Frederic's admirers would fain believe a forgotten , episode . It has indeed all the elements of the tragic and the sublime ; it tells of Kings and Queens , of wars and deaths , of heroic resolve and patriotic enthusiasm , of villany , perfidy , and crime . ' London : SAMPSON LOW , MAESTON , SEARLE , & RIVINGTON , Grown Btuldinga , 188 Fleet Street , B . C . ( 264 )

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