Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 15th January 1883, Edition 1 of 1, Page 73

/ in the press , preparing for immediate publication , in 2 vol $ . demy Bvo . cloth . I FEED 1 BICK THE SECOID AND HLOIA THEKESA . FROM HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS RELATIVE TO THE EVENTFUL PERIOD 1740-1742 . By the DUC DE BROGLIE , Member of the French Academy . Translated by Mrs . CASHEL HOEY and Mr . JOHN LILLIE . While they do not depart from the dignity of History , the Political Studies of the Due de Broglie , devoted to Frederic II . of Prussia , and Maria Theresa , the Empress-Queen , have all the piquant vivacity and intimate interest that distinguish the author's extraordinary revelation of the secret diplomacy of Louis XV . In these close and careful surveys of the eventful years 1740-42 , we find a new light shed upon the respective characters and actions of the great personages involved in the progress of the famous struggle for the crown of the elective Empire , after the death of the Emperor Charles "VI . ; and a picture of the diplomatic arts of the period , such as no historian has previously been in a position to place before the reader . The access to the Imperial Archives at Vienna , lately given , has enabled the Due de Broglie to avail himself of a mass of unpublished correspondence which , supplemented by his own family papers and the recently disclosed documents of the French Ministry of Foreign ALfFairs , furnishes him with materials full of interest . His narrative of the political mission of Marshal de Belle Isle ( Carlyle ' s * last of the great ' Frenchmen ) to the camp in Silesia , with the amusing episodes of the ambassador's visits to the three Electors at Treves , Cologne , and Mayence ; his comparison with the Marshal ' s hitherto unpublished account of his interview with Frederick at Brieg , addressed , on the spot , to Ainelot , with the King ' s version , as given in ISHistoire de mon temps , and written twent y years after ; his estimate of the policy of the aged French Minister , Cardinal Pleury , and a brilliant sketch of Maurice of Saxony ( Marshal Saxe ) , are among the striking features of the first of these political studies . The second , which follows the fortunes of Maria Theresa during the two critical years of sketches Austria political , and see in - which saw Prussia , "whose "th , e is dramatic issue of even was element greater fraught in is with terest skilfull such . This momentous blended study with forms consequences the a series amusing of to , historical and France the , portrait of the Empress-Queen is drawn with auch force y and minuteness as to render Maria Theresa thoroughly real to the reader . In this study we again meet with Marshal de the the Broglie subject Due , cuid de of Brog find a remarkabl li the e , intimts 'The y brillian defection details t chapter onl of y Frederick to , with be derived which , ' and the fro its m work political the concludes sources consequences at . the disposal , form of London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , SEARLE , & RIVINGTON , , 1 Crown Buildings , 188 Fleet 8 treet , E . C . ( 66 )

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