Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 1st November 1881, Edition 1 of 1, Page 962

At all Libraries , The Mendelssohn Family , 1729-1847 . From Letters and Journals . By Sebastiak Henseh . With Eight Portraits drawn by WrLHEXM Hensel . Translated by Carl Klingemann and an American Collaborator . "With a Notice by George Grove , D . C . L . 2 vols . demy 8 vo . cloth , 30 s . [ Now ready . i rich traditions , From collection and the nay Author of own letters pe ' s rsonal and Preface my recollections mother . —* The ' s fountains . journals Sometimes , from and for I which h the ave I last been have twenty compelled drawn or my thirty to narrative admi years t passa are also chiefly ges many that a verbal have very been fragmentary already printed character , becanse to the the book omission . of them , especially in the case of Felix ' s letters , would have given a family ' The I have portraits no drawings are all , or excellent , at least ph , no ototypic perfect copies likenesses of my by father my father 's drawings . . Of the other members of the On these ' My two narrative the interest closes of with the public the year was 184 concentrated 7 , in which , and Felix they and were his eldest , likewise sister , the , Fanny all-uniting , departed centre this of life the . family , which has since been so widely separated . ' Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito , Minister , Ambassador , Councillor of State , and Member of the Institute of France , between the years 1788 and 1815 . Edited by General Fleischmann . From the French by Mrs . Cashel Hoey and Mr . John Liixie . 2 vols . demy 8 vx > . cloth extra , 36 s . [ Now ready . friendshi Notice p with . —This Joseph is a work Bonaparte of extraordinary , whom he accompanied historical and to ^ biographical Naples and about interest Spain . , The where Author he was ' s with life-long the King throughout the Peninsular War , and his intimate acquaintance with the political and personal history of the the poin Bonapartes t at which , render Madam his e Memoirs de Remusat exceptionally drops it , and full reveals and valuable the true . He story takes of the up Spanish the history fiasco of as *> he it Empire has never at hitherto Marie Louise been and exposed the . members His presence of the Impe at Blois rial when family the who news had of fled the thither Emperor from ' s abdication Paris , enables reached him the to Empres describe 3 in inflict minute in the detail way of one contrast of the . suggestive This work episod supplements es of a hi and story completes which lacks the historical nothing that narrative the irony for which of fate we coul are d indebted to the Memoirs and Letters of Madame de R 6 musat . A Selection from the Letters of Madame de Remusat to Her Husband and Son from 1804 to 1813 . From the French ,, by Mrs . Cashel Hoey and Mr . John Liixie . 1 vol . demy 8 vo . ( uniform I with the ' Memoirs of Madame de Remusat , ' 2 vols . ) , cloth extra , 16 s . [ Now ready . greatest In selecting interest fro for m English among readers the Letters , the translators of Madame have de Remusat been careiuL those to which retain they a number believe of likely passages to have which the str Preface ikingly to illustrate his Mother the ' s Memoirs characterise with profound qualities of filial the a writer ffection —qualities ; and which on which M . Paul M . Remusat Itemusat has commemorates dwelt in his , in hia Preface to his Grandmother ' s Letters , with just pride . The Head Hunters of Borneo : Up the Mahakkam , and Down the Barita ; also Journeyings in Sumatra . By Carl Bock . Super-royal 8 vo _ with 32 Coloured Plates , 36 « . [ Beady . Exploring The author Expedition gives . an The acc book ount in of copiou his sly overland illustrated journey with in coloured Borneo plate as s leader and engravings of the Dutc from h Government the lnaaoi autnors j own ing the drawings forests . of Among tjie island other , of matters wliom , the the bo women <» k describes at leaht nn have « l wives never drawings previousl of the y been fair seen -skinned by any race Luropea traveller . ' illustrations ' Finer epecimens tell ftneir of own colour * to - ry printing , imn g we ive hav one « an never idea seen of the , and people the , book their is houses altogether , utensils handsome , weapons . ^ V general reproduction surroundings of the elaborate , far more tattooing impressive ' on the and feet instructive and legs of than the any women amount is a wonderful of description triump could h or cJ , ' F ~ . j ^ ^ lithog To execution those raphy who . ; There and are not the is a familiar lav illust ish rations -supply with "; of < :. » <• f hwoh literature the pile illustrations -liouaes relating of , and to the Borneo these natives alone and are the are moat Malayan sure instructive to make peopl the es and this work be J wor u pop JJrD * ^ ixir j . cit value prove her European of fresh the and work lands instructive , especially , In eviden ; au the « t l .. < illustrations \ ' * J' ) n »• * ¦ ]> mturner ,.- iuJists , in as will which th pro rowing lably tli « light le work arn on a baa few the been things prehistoric brough they did t condition out not re know flects of ^ our tlxe o ' m ^ ^ ^( j credit upon the publishers . 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