In two volumes, with Portraits and Plans. Crown 8vo. 12s.
The Great Duke.
By W. H. Fitchett, B.A., LL.D.,
Author of 'Deeds that won the Empire,' 'Fights for the Flag,' &c.
Liverpool Post.—'Written ... by a master of narrative. The history of the exhaustive Peninsular campaign has never been written more picturesquely, yet with such regard to truth.'
With a Portrait in Photogravure, and 8 pages of Illustrations.
2nd Edition. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
My Naval Career and Travels.
By Admiral of the Fleet the Right Honble. Sir Edward H. Seymour, G.C.B., O.M., etc.
Daily Telegraph.—'Simple, straightforward, manly, and unadorned, this literary record is a worthy tribute to the career which it describes. Admiral Seymour has to his credit as distinguished a career as any officer in the British Navy.'
With 3 Photogravures and 20 pages of Illustrations. In 2 Vols.
Large medium 8vo. 31s. 6d. net.
The Family and Heirs of Sir Francis Drake.
By Lady Eliott-Drake.
Observer.—'The Drake records are rich and so excellently managed and arranged by Lady Eliott-Drake that we get a very close and vivid picture of life in Devon and in London for nearly two hundred years.'
With 2 Portraits in Photogravure and 2 Illustrations.
Large post 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
'Sylhet' Thackeray.
By F. B. Bradley Birt, I.C.S., Author of 'Chota Nagpore,' &c.
*** A biography of William Makepeace Thackeray, the grandfather of the Novelist.
Standard.—'Mr. Bradley Birt's knowledge of India, not only as it is now, but also as it was in the latter part of the eighteenth century, has enabled him to give the story a vividness which is not always found in Anglo-Indian Biography.'
With 18 Portraits (2 in Photogravure). Small demy, 8vo. 2 vols. 21s. net.
The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon.
By Sir Henry Craik, K.C.B., M.P.,
Author of 'A Century of Scottish History,' &c.
Times.—'A life which in its greatness and variety of relief, no less than in the picturesque abundance of detail available, yields to five or six alone in the whole splendid gallery of seventeenth century biography.'
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.
