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Published by T. & W. BOONE, 29, New Bond Street.

In 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, price 248.

HISTORICAL RECORD

OF THE

ROYAL MARINE FORCES,
From their Formation to the Present Time,

INCLUDING

AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR SERVICES IN CHINA,

BY P. H. NICOLAS,

LIEUT. ROYAL MARINES.

"Mr. Nicolas has had a wide and fertile field to work upon, and excellently has he turned his materials to account. Impelled by a sincere attachment for his old comrades, by an ardent desire for their welfare, by the very natural wish for a more minute and connected narrative of their daring career than has hitherto been given to the world, he has produced a luminous and comprehensive work, than which none can be better of its class, and which reflects equal credit upon his feelings as an officer, and his talents as a writer."-United Service Gazette.

"These volumes cannot fail to prove eminently acceptable to the members of the gallant corps, whose honours they record, and generally indeed to the military service of both arms."-Naval and Military Gazette.

"It is historical, and must interest all historical readers; it is proudly national, and speaks to the heart of every Englishman; while to the sailor, the soldier, and especially the marine, whose services it chronicles, it will prove a valuable record. It is a work, which for historical information, and clearness of arrangement, may fairly compete with any of its class.”—Literary Gazette.

In Two Volumes, post 8vo. price 21s.

COMMODORE SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S

ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IN PORTUGAL. BETWEEN DON PEDRO AND DON MIGUEL;

WITH PLANS OF HIS ACTION OFF CAPE ST. VINCENT.

"If we read the account of that naval action in which, with a force wholly unequal, had it not been directed by the utmost skill and valour, to compete with the enemyif we read the account of that action in which, in the space of five minutes, a signal victory was achieved, by which the glory of St. Vincent was revived-I say, if we read the records of such an action, we shall find that the commander bore the name of Napier."-Speech of Sir Robert Peel.

"An excellent and spirit-stirring book-plain, honest, and straight-forward-the very stuff of which the web of history alone should be composed. This is indeed an honest, fair, and impartial history."-Morning Chronicle.

"In spirit and in keeping, from beginning to end, Admiral Napier's War in Portugal,' is the happiest picture we could conceive of the battle off Cape St. Vincentits especial excellence consisting in a regardless bluntness of manner and language that is quite admirable and delightful."-Monthly Review.

"It is Cæsar's Commentaries in the first person."-Spectator.

"Candid to a degree, and sincere as a sailor's will. This is the very stuff of which history should be composed."-Bell's Messenger.

"If Admiral Napier be not distinguished by the common-place facilities of authorship, he possesses the higher qualities of truth, discretion, and clear-sightedness, in no slight degree."-Atlas.

In speaking of himself and his deeds, he has hit the just and difficult medium— shewing his real feelings, yet steering clear of affected modesty on the one hand, and of over-weening modesty on the other."-Tait's Magazine.

"This is a very graphic account of the affairs in which the gallant author figured so nobly, and added fresh lustre to the name of Napier."-News.

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THE HISTORY OF THE GERMAN LEGION, FROM THE PERIOD OF ITS ORGANIZATION IN 1803, TO THAT OF ITS DISSOLUTION IN 1816.

Compiled from Manuscript Documents,

BY N. LUDLOW BEAMISH, ESQ. F.R.S., LATE MAJOR UNATTACHED. Two vols. 8vo. complete, with Plans and Coloured Plates of Costumes, price £1. 10s. The second volume sold separately, price 10s.

"The work is not like others we could name-a mere compilation from newspapers and magazines. Major Beamish has left no source of information unexplored; and the access he obtained to manuscript journals has enabled him to intersperse his general narrative with interesting personal anecdotes, that render this volume as delightful for those who read for amusement, as those who read for profit."--Athenæum.

"We are altogether much pleased with the volume, and heartily recommend it to the British public."-Literary Gazette.

In 2 vols. 8vo. with numerous plates, some coloured, price 36s.

EXCURSIONS, ADVENTURES, AND FIELD SPORTS

IN

CEYLON;

Its Commercial and Military Importance, and numerous advantages to the British Emigrant.

BY LIEUT.-COLONEL JAMES CAMPBELL,

Late of the 45th and 50th Regiments, and for many years Commandant of the Districts of Galle, and the Seven Korles, and Judicial Agent of Government.

"These two volumes are full of interesting matter."--Morning Herald.

"We never wish to take up a pleasanter, more fresh spirited production than this of Colonel Campbell's."-Naval and Military Gazette.

"The book is to be heartily commended to lovers of lively anecdote and good natural description."-Examiner.

"We have to thank the Colonel for a very entertaining book on Ceylon. The work possesses the invaluable character both of a long residence in it on the part of the writer, and the very best means of observation attainable by a British resident." Foreign and Colonial Review.

In Two Volumes, 8vo.-Price Twenty-four Shillings.

SPAIN AND THE SPANIARDS IN 1843.

WITH ACCOUNTS OF DISTRICTS VERY SELDOM VISITED:

*

NATURAL HISTORY, GEOLOGY, MINES, ANTIQUITIES, FINE ARTS, THE CHURCH, PRONUNCIAMENTOS, Fall of the REGENCY, ETC.

BY CAPTAIN S. E. WIDDRINGTON, R.N., F.R.S.

Author of "SKETCHES OF SPAIN IN 1829, 30, 31, & 32."

"This is a solid well-informed book, written by a man of great experience, of unusual attainments, and thoroughly acquainted with Spain."-Examiner.

"These volumes contain the plain and unaffected narrative of a well-informed and experienced man, with much interesting and general information with respect to Spain, and some judicious observations on recent transactions in that country. As an authentic account, therefore, of the present social and physical condition of the Spaniards, we have read the work with interest, and recommend it to the perusal of our readers."-Morning Herald.

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HINTS TO SUBALTERNS OF THE BRITISH ARMY. Regt.

BY HENRY HARDBARGAIN, Late

Dedicated to WILLIAM HIGGINSON DUFF, Esq., &c. &c. &c.
"Scribimus indocti doctique."

Containing-Sketches of Commanding Officers-The Art of getting Leave of
Absence-Military Miseries--Glossary, &c.

"I have also added, for the information of those non-military readers who may deign to peruse this small volume, a Glossary of those exclusively military terms, they might otherwise be at a loss to comprehend; and which, the profound ignorance that great part of the world are in with respect to military matters, renders it most necessary to explain-for instance, I assure my readers, that the other night when I was dining out, an old gentleman asked me whether the officers who were on guard in London, on the day of the Derby, did not receive a compensatory pension from government; nay, so firmly convinced was he that such was the case, that I had some difficulty in persuading him that his impression on the subject was erroneous.”—Preface.

In post 8vo. price 5s.

RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS

RELATIVE TO THE

Duties of Troops composing the Advanced Corps of an Army, BY LIEUT.-COLONEL I. LEACH, C.B., LATE OF THE RIFLE BRIGADE, Author of " Rough Sketches of the Life of an Old Soldier."

Also, by the same Author,

A SKETCH OF THE

SERVICES OF THE RIFLE BRIGADE,

From its Formation to the Battle of Waterloo.
In 8vo. price 2s. 6d. boards.

AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLES AND CONSTRUCTION OF

MILITARY BRIDGES,

And the Passage of Rivers in Military Operations,
BY GENERAL SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS, BART. K.S.C. &c. &e.
The Second Edition, containing much additional Matter and Plates.

8vo. price 20s. boards.

"Of this valuable work we expressed a very high opinion when it was first published; and now that the able author has added much important new matter to it, we need only say that it is worthy of his own high reputation as a tactician and Military Engineer; and that no soldier in Europe can know his business thoroughly without consulting it."-Literary Gazette.

NAVAL EVOLUTIONS;

A MEMOIR.

BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS, BART. K.S.C. &c. &c. Containing a Review and Refutation of the principal Essays and Arguments advocating Mr. Clerk's Claims, in relation to the Manoeuvre of the 12th of April, 1782; and vindicating, by tactical Demonstration, and numerous authentic Documents, the professional skill of the British Officers chiefly concerned on that memorable occasion.

With plates, 1 vol. 8vo. price 10s. cloth boards,

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NEW HISTORICAL WORK BY G. P. R. JAMES, ESQ.

Just published, in 3 vols. 8vo. cloth,

THE

LIFE OF HENRY THE FOURTH,

KING OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE.

BY G. P. R. JAMES, Esq.

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AUTHOR OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH.'

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"Never was historian more scrupulously correct, more rigorously veracious than Mr. James; he even deteriorates occasionally from the interest of his narrative, rather than allow his imagination to colour the picture, and contents himself in general with an animated detail of external events, appearing convinced that the duties of the historian and historical novelist are almost diametrically opposed to one another. In the Life of Henry the Fourth' he has produced a highly valuable work, which will retain its standard worth for ever."

New Quarterly Review.

66 There are few writers better known or more deservedly popular than Mr. James for few have written so many books, and so many of these charming, instructive, and interesting. He has rendered fiction as spirit-moving as if it were fact, because he has invested it with all the vraisemblance of truth; and in the work before us he has, by stepping into the wide domain of history, fortunately selected a hero whose life is full of adventure, and an epoch deeply tinged with the horrors, and in some instances brightly illuminated with the purest chivalry of the wildest romance. To write the Life and the Times of Henry IV. of France, required on the part of the author little of imagination, and nothing of fancy in illustration of its events. The events have but to be arranged; they only demand a due research into contemporary documents, and then, under the pen of a practised writer, they grow into a narrative of thrilling interest. Such is the work before us. It is a carefully composed history of that transition in France in which popular feeling became for the first time an essential element in polity-in which kings and oligarchies were convinced of the necessity that it should be baffled, coerced, deluded, cajoled, or trampled out of the soil of France, as if it were a noxious weed. It is impossible to read this work without being pleased, and it is equally impossible to read it without being instructed; for Mr. James has, by the abundant use of that valuable series of publications, for which France is indebted to Louis Philippe, thrown a great deal of light upon many transactions, which before were either misapprehended or imperfectly understood. Finally, we declare that there seldom has been a more valuable contribution to history than these three volumes of "The Life of Henry the Fourth of France and Navarre."

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Morning Herald.

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Published by T. & W. BOONE, 29, New Bond Street.

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WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUNG PLAYERS,
BY ADMIRAL JAMES BURNEY.

REVISED BY F. P. WATSON, ESQ.

SECOND EDITION, 18mo. cloth, gilt leaves, price 3s.

HAND-BOOK to the GAME OF BILLIARDS,
ADDRESSED TO THE NOVICE AND THE proficient,
With the Laws and 44 Diagrams,

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Bell's Life in London. "All that the Billiard player can acquire from instruction, he may gain from this band-book; and having well studied it, it will be his own fault if, by practice, he do not become a proficient in this most delightful pastime."-Argus.

"Every Billiard player, be he novice or proficient, will find this a manual adapted exactly to his wishes."- Court Journal.

SIXTH EDITION, 18mo. sewed, price 1s.

HINTS TO THE CHARITABLE,

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Author of "Old Rainy Day," 8vo. price 3d.; "Hand-bill for the Cottage Wall," &c.

Also by the same Author, Third Edition, 18mo. price 1s.

HINTS

FOR THE AMELIORATION OF THE MORAL CONDITION OF A VILLAGE POPULATION.

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