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The Life of MirabeauBy S. G. TALLENTYREAuthor of “The Life of Voltaire,” “The Friends of Voltaire”First American Edition Reprinted from the Second English Edition8º.With Portraits.The two great representative Frenchmen of the eighteenth century are Voltaire and Mirabeau. Voltaire was the last great influence of the old order, and Mirabeau the first of the new. Voltaire, more than any other one man, undammed the torrent of Revolution. Mirabeau used all the strength of his mighty genius to turn those rushing waters into the channel of use, of wisdom, and of safety.These two notable men have inspired the present biographer, who has the distinction of having written what may be regarded as the definitive life of each.The Life of Mirabeauis, likeThe Life of Voltaire, a penetrating study of character combined with a dramatic conception of Mirabeau’s rôle in history. It has been entirely reset, and is offered to the public in a format uniform withThe Life of Voltaire.G. P. Putnam’s SonsNew YorkLondon
The Life of Mirabeau
By S. G. TALLENTYRE
Author of “The Life of Voltaire,” “The Friends of Voltaire”
First American Edition Reprinted from the Second English Edition
8º.With Portraits.
The two great representative Frenchmen of the eighteenth century are Voltaire and Mirabeau. Voltaire was the last great influence of the old order, and Mirabeau the first of the new. Voltaire, more than any other one man, undammed the torrent of Revolution. Mirabeau used all the strength of his mighty genius to turn those rushing waters into the channel of use, of wisdom, and of safety.
These two notable men have inspired the present biographer, who has the distinction of having written what may be regarded as the definitive life of each.The Life of Mirabeauis, likeThe Life of Voltaire, a penetrating study of character combined with a dramatic conception of Mirabeau’s rôle in history. It has been entirely reset, and is offered to the public in a format uniform withThe Life of Voltaire.
G. P. Putnam’s SonsNew YorkLondon
Voltaire in His LettersBeing a Selection from his CorrespondenceTranslated with a Preface and NotesByS. G. TallentyreAuthor of “Life of Voltaire,” “The Friends of Voltaire,” etc.8º.THE letters portray the man “in his habit as he lived,” and not only display his extraordinary mind, but show him in love and in prison, recovering from smallpox, lamenting a mistress, visiting a king, righting human wrongs, attacking inhuman laws, belittling Shakespeare, and belauding Chesterfield.G. P. Putnam’s SonsNew YorkLondon
Voltaire in His Letters
Being a Selection from his Correspondence
Translated with a Preface and Notes
By
S. G. Tallentyre
Author of “Life of Voltaire,” “The Friends of Voltaire,” etc.
8º.
THE letters portray the man “in his habit as he lived,” and not only display his extraordinary mind, but show him in love and in prison, recovering from smallpox, lamenting a mistress, visiting a king, righting human wrongs, attacking inhuman laws, belittling Shakespeare, and belauding Chesterfield.
G. P. Putnam’s SonsNew YorkLondon
Matthew HargravesByS. G. TallentyreAuthor of “Bassett,” “Life of Voltaire,” etc.12º.To those discriminating readers of fiction who put human interest above the eccentric and exceptional, this new book by S. G. Tallentyre, recounting with rare fidelity the progress through life of Matthew Hargraves, son of the portly landlord of theHope and Anchor, with all the qualities one respects and the limitations one recognizes in the average man, will afford delightful hours. The delicate way in which the author conveys to the reader the sense of growing sympathy between Matthew and the girl whom he and his wife have taken into their coldly correct household is a refreshing escape from the clumsy, or even gross, manner in which many writers of fiction, with an artistry less perfect, would have done violence to the situation. But the supreme achievement of the author’s artistry is to have made a commonplace man thoroughly interesting.
Matthew Hargraves
By
S. G. Tallentyre
Author of “Bassett,” “Life of Voltaire,” etc.
12º.
To those discriminating readers of fiction who put human interest above the eccentric and exceptional, this new book by S. G. Tallentyre, recounting with rare fidelity the progress through life of Matthew Hargraves, son of the portly landlord of theHope and Anchor, with all the qualities one respects and the limitations one recognizes in the average man, will afford delightful hours. The delicate way in which the author conveys to the reader the sense of growing sympathy between Matthew and the girl whom he and his wife have taken into their coldly correct household is a refreshing escape from the clumsy, or even gross, manner in which many writers of fiction, with an artistry less perfect, would have done violence to the situation. But the supreme achievement of the author’s artistry is to have made a commonplace man thoroughly interesting.
DRAKE, NELSON, ANDNAPOLEON: StudiesBySir Walter Runciman, Bart.Author of “The Tragedy of St. Helena,” etc.Illustrated.Demy 8vo.Cloth.The author deals first with Drake and what he calls the Fleet Tradition, of which he regards Drake, the greatest Elizabethan sailor, as the indubitable founder; next the author deals with Nelson, his relations with Lady Hamilton, and the various heroic achievements which have immortalized his name. From Nelson the author passes on to Napoleon, and shows how his career and policy have had a vital relation to the World War. As himself a sailor of the old wooden-ships period, Sir Walter is able to handle, with special knowledge and intimacy, the technique of the seafaring exploits of Nelson; and Sir Walter’s analysis of the character of Nelson, a combination of vanity, childishness, statesmanlike ability, and incomparable seamanship and courage, is singularly well conceived.G. P. Putnam’s SonsNew YorkLondon
DRAKE, NELSON, ANDNAPOLEON: Studies
By
Sir Walter Runciman, Bart.
Author of “The Tragedy of St. Helena,” etc.
Illustrated.Demy 8vo.Cloth.
The author deals first with Drake and what he calls the Fleet Tradition, of which he regards Drake, the greatest Elizabethan sailor, as the indubitable founder; next the author deals with Nelson, his relations with Lady Hamilton, and the various heroic achievements which have immortalized his name. From Nelson the author passes on to Napoleon, and shows how his career and policy have had a vital relation to the World War. As himself a sailor of the old wooden-ships period, Sir Walter is able to handle, with special knowledge and intimacy, the technique of the seafaring exploits of Nelson; and Sir Walter’s analysis of the character of Nelson, a combination of vanity, childishness, statesmanlike ability, and incomparable seamanship and courage, is singularly well conceived.
G. P. Putnam’s SonsNew YorkLondon