CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
ARISTOMENES THE MESSENIAN. ABOUT 684 B.C.
HEGESISTRATUS. ABOUT 475 B.C.
DEMETRIUS SOTER. 162 B.C.
MARIUS. 85 B.C.
ATTALUS. SIXTH CENTURY.
RICHARD, DUKE OF NORMANDY. TENTH CENTURY.
LOUIS II., COUNT OF FLANDERS. 1347
THE DUKE OF ALBANY. FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
JAMES V., KING OF SCOTLAND. SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
SECUNDUS CURION. SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
BENVENUTO CELLINI. 1538
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. 1568
CAUMONT DE LA FORCE. 1572
CHARLES DE GUISE. 1591
MARY DE' MEDICIS. 1619
GROTIUS. 1621
ISAAC ARNAULD. 1635
THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT. 1648
CARDINAL DE RETZ. 1654
QUIQUERAN DE BEAUJEU. 1671
CHARLES II. 1680
BLANCHE GAMOND. 1687
JEAN BART AND THE CHEVALIER DE FORBIN. 1689
DUGUAY-TROUIN. 1694
THE ABBE COUNT DE BUCQUOY. 1700-1702.
FORSTER, MACINTOSH, ROBERT KEITH, NITHSDALE, AND OTHER CHIEFS OF THE JACOBITE INSURRECTION. 1715
CHARLES EDWARD. 1746
STANISLAUS LECZINSKI. 1734
BARON TRENCK. 1746-1763.
CASSANOVA DE SEINGALT. 1757
LATUDE. 1750-1784.
BENIOWSKI. 1771
ESCAPE OF TWELVE PRIESTS, SAVED BY GEOFFROY ST. HILAIRE. 1792
DE CHATEAUBRUN. 1794
SYDNEY SMITH. 1797
PICHEGRU, RAMEL, BARTHELEMY, DELARUE, ETC. 1797
COLONEL DE RICHEMONT.
CAPTAIN GRIVEL. 1810
LAVALETTE. 1815
GIOVANNI ARRIVABENE, UGONI, AND SCALVINI. 1822
MARRAST, GUINARD, GODEFROI CAVAIGNAC, AND OTHER POLITICAL PRISONERS. July, 1834.
MONSIEUR RUFIN PIOTROWSKI. 1846
ESCAPE OF PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON FROM THE FORTRESS OF HAM.
THE CAPTURE AND ESCAPE OF THE FENIAN HEAD CENTRE, JAMES STEPHENS.
WONDERFUL ESCAPES.
Wonderful Escapes
REVISED FROM THE FRENCH OF F. BERNARD
AND ORIGINAL CHAPTERS ADDED.
BY
R I C H A R D W H I T E I N G.
With Twenty-six Plates.
NEW YORK:
CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO.
1871.
Illustrated Library of Wonders.
PUBLISHED BY
Messrs. Charles Scribner & Co.,
654 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
| | Each one volume 12mo. | Price per volume, $1.50. |
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| | Titles of Books. | No. of Illustrations |
| | Thunder and Lightning, | 39 |
| | Wonders of Optics, | 70 |
| | Wonders of Heat, | 90 |
| | Intelligence of Animals, | 54 |
| | Great Hunts, | 22 |
| | Egypt 3,300 Years Ago, | 40 |
| | Wonders of Pompeii, | 22 |
| | The Sun, by A. Guillemin, | 53 |
| | Sublime in Nature, | 50 |
| | Wonders of Glass Making, | 63 |
| | Wonders of Italian Art, | 28 |
| | Wonders of the Human Body, | 45 |
| | Wonders of Architecture, | 50 |
| | Lighthouses and Lightships, | 60 |
| | Bottom of the Ocean, | 68 |
| | Wonders of Bodily Strength and Skill, | 70 |
| | Wonderful Balloon Ascents, | 30 |
| | Acoustics, | 114 |
| | Wonders of the Heavens, | 48 |
| * | The Moon, by A. Guillemin, | 60 |
| * | Wonders of Sculpture, | 61 |
| * | Wonders of Engraving, | 32 |
| * | Wonders of Vegetation, | 45 |
| * | Wonders of the Invisible World, | 97 |
| | Celebrated Escapes, | 26 |
| * | Water, | 77 |
| * | Hydraulics, | 40 |
| * | Electricity, | 71 |
| * | Subterranean World, | 27 |
* In Press for early Publication.
The above works sent to any address, post paid, upon receipt of the price by the publishers.
