Rough hewn, Volume 3

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1874
 

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Page 341 - A Life of Plots ; The Two Penns ; A Quaker's Cell; Colonel Blood; Crown Jewels, King and Colonel; Rye House Plot ; Murder ; A Patriot ; The Good Old Cause ; James, Duke of Monmouth ; The Unjust Judge; The Scottish Lords; The Countess of...
Page 339 - Young, Balfe, Braham, and many other artists of note in their time, will recall a flood of recollections. It was a delicate task for Madame Moscheles to select from the diaries in reference to living persons, but her extracts have been judiciously made.
Page 340 - All the civilized world— English, Continental, and American — takes an interest in the Tower of London. The Tower is the stage upon which has been enacted some of the grandest dramas and saddest tragedies in our national annals. If, in imagination, we take our stand on those time-worn walls, and let century after century flit past us, we shall see in duo succession the• majority of the most famous men and lovely women of England in the olden time.
Page 343 - Harvey not only saw a great deal, but saw all that she did see to the test advantage. In noticing the intrinsic interest of Mrs. Harvey's book, we must not forget to say a word for her ability as a writer."— Times.
Page 338 - A lively, interesting, and altogether novel book on Switzerland. It is full of valuable information on social, political, and ecclesiastical questions, and, like all Mr. Dixon's books, it is eminently readable.
Page 341 - Move and Counter-move ; Pirate and Prison ; In the Marshalsea ; The Spanish Olive ; Prisons Opened; A Parliament ; Digby, Earl of Bristol ; Turn of Fortune ; Eliot Eloquent; Felton's Knife; An Assassin; Nine Gentlemen in the Tower; A King's Revenge ; Charles I. ; Pillars of State and Church...
Page 343 - The work before us contains much historical information of interest and value. We must applaud here, as we applauded in his treatise on The Seventh Vial, the skill and diligence of the author in the vast and careful selection of facts, both physical and moral, the interest of each when taken singly, and ths striking picture of the whole when presented collectively to the view.

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