Illustrations by A. D. M’Cormick

The Novels Of Charles Lever
Edited By His Daughter
London
Downey And Co., Limited
12 York St. Covent Garden
1898

CONTENTS

NOTICE
MAURICE TIERNAY
CHAPTER I. ‘THE DAYS OF THE GUILLOTINE’
CHAPTER II. THE RESTAURANT ‘AU SCELERAT’
CHAPTER III. THE ‘TEMPLE’
CHAPTER IV. ‘THE NIGHT OF THE NINTH THERMIDOR’
CHAPTER V. THE CHOICE OF A LIFE
CHAPTER VI. ‘THE ARMY SIXTY YEARS SINCE’
CHAPTER VII. A PASSING ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER VIII. ‘TRONCHON’
CHAPTER IX. A SCRAPE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
CHAPTER X. AN ARISTOCRATIC REPUBLICAN
CHAPTER XI. ‘THE PASSAGE OF THE RHINE’
CHAPTER XII. ‘A GLANCE AT STAFF-DUTY’
CHAPTER XIII. A FAREWELL LETTER
CHAPTER XIV. A SURPRISE AND AN ESCAPE
CHAPTER XV. SCRAPS OF HISTORY
CHAPTER XVI. AN OLD GENERAL OF THE IRISH BRIGADE
CHAPTER XVII. LA ROCHELLE
CHAPTER XVIII. ‘THE BAY OF BATHFRAN’
CHAPTER XIX. A RECONNAISSANCE
CHAPTER XX. KILLALA
CHAPTER XXI. OUR ALLIES
CHAPTER XXII. THE DAY OF ‘CASTLEBAR’
CHAPTER XXIII. THE TOWN-MAJOR OF CASTLEBAR
CHAPTER XXIV. THE MISSION TO THE NORTH
CHAPTER XXV. A PASSING VISIT TO KILLALA
CHAPTER XXVI. A REMNANT OF ‘FONTENOY’
CHAPTER XXVII. THE CRANAGH
CHAPTER XXVIII. SOME NEW ACQUAINTANCES
CHAPTER XXIX. THE BREAKFAST AT LETTERKENNY
CHAPTER XXX. SCENE IN THE ROYAL BARRACKS
CHAPTER XXXI. A BRIEF CHANGE OF LIFE AND COUNTRY
CHAPTER XXXII. THE ‘ATHOL’ TENDER
CHAPTER XXXIII. A BOLD STROKE FOR FAME AND FORTUNE
CHAPTER XXXIV. GENOA IN THE SIEGE
CHAPTER XXXV. A NOVEL COUNCIL OP WAR
CHAPTER XXXVI. GENOA DURING THE SIEGE
CHAPTER XXXVII. MONTE DI PACCIO
CHAPTER XXXVIII. A ROYALIST ‘DE LA VIEILLE ROCHE’
CHAPTER XXXIX. A SORROWFUL PARTING
CHAPTER XL. THE CHATEAU OF ETTENHEIM
CHAPTER XLI. AN ‘ORDINARY’ ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER XLII. THE ‘COUNT DE MAUREPAS,’ ALIAS————
CHAPTER XLIII. A FOREST RIDE
CHAPTER XLIV. AN EPISODE OF ‘94
CHAPTER XLV. THE CABINET OF A CHEF DE POLICE
CHAPTER XLVI. A GLANCE AT THE ‘PREFECTURE DE POLICE’
CHAPTER XLVII. THE VILLAGE OP SCHWARTZ-ACH
CHAPTER XLVIII. A VILLAGE ‘SYNDICUS’
CHAPTER XLIX. A LUCKY MEETING
CHAPTER L. THE MARCH ON VIENNA
CHAPTER LI. SCHÖNBRUNN IN 1809
CHAPTER LII. KOMORN FORTY TEARS AGO
CHAPTER LIII. A LOSS AND A GAIN
CHAPTER LIV. MAURICE TIERNAY’S ‘LAST WORD AND CONFESSION’

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

‘Maurice Tiernay was first published as a serial in ‘The Dublin University Magazine,’ commencing in the issue for April 1850, and ending in the issue for December 1851. It was first published in book form (as a volume of The Parlour Library) with the following title-page (undated):

Maurice Tiernay " The " Soldier of Fortune " By the Author of " ‘Sir Jasper Carew’ " etc. etc. I London, " Thomas Hodgson, " 13 Paternoster Bow.

The earliest edition which has Lever’s name on the title-page is one published in Leipzig in 1861. This edition has the following title-page:

Maurice Tiernay " the " Soldier of Fortune, " by " Charles Lever, I Author of ‘Charles O’Malley,’ etc. I Copyright Edition. " In two VOLUMES " VOL. I. " LEIPZIG " BERNHARD TAUCH-NITZ I 1861.