mation is given as to the Chevalier Beaumont d'Eon, the famous French Diplomatist, especially on the disputed question of his sex.

In No. 44 of the "Pennsylvania Magazine" (January, 1888) will be found a very readable article by Dr. Charles J. Stillé on the offer made by the Comte de Broglie, while the American Colonies were struggling in 1776 for their Independence, to assume the position of Stadtholder of the country, asking in return that he should be appointed for three years Generalissimo of the Army, with uncontrolled power and an undisputed right to direct all negotiations with foreign powers. He further bargained for a "great deal of money," partly paid down in advance, and partly in annual payments, to "enable him and his companions to prepare properly for the voyage." The proposal never came before Congress, but as the writer of the Article remarks, America, in her most troublous times, apparently came very near having to elect whether she would have an English or a French King for her Suzerain.

De Cailleux, Alph.—VOYAGES Pittoresques (etc.).—France. See Taylor, Baron I. S. J.

Defoe, Daniel (?) (1661–1731).—Cartoucheans, THE, in France (1725). See Bookworm's Garner (Vol. V.).(a)

Defoe, Daniel.-[Robinson Crusoe.] THE LIFE and strange sur[477] prising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, as related by himself. Being a facsimile reprint of the first Edition published in 1719. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. London: Elliot Stock. 1883. 8vo. Red morocco with beautifully worked corners, double with gold borders, edges gilt. Binding by Samblancx-Weckesser, drop cover.

... The Copy is embellished with two portraits of Defoe and nine Plates numbered 1-9 by Delvaux, after Stothart (see pp. 2, 52, 64, 78, 159, 181, 240, 269, and 286), and besides a Frontispiece of Robinson Crusoe by Clark & Pine there are four plates engraved by Mouilleron [inv. et, sc.] (pp. 60, 128, 241, and 274) and two (pp. 164 and 218) signed Fesquet.

Defoe was 58 years of age when he published Robinson Crusoe, and had then given to the world 190 predecessors. See William Lee's Biography of Defoe for a list of these pamphlets and volumes issued on almost every possible subject.

The Frontispiece is a reproduction of the "rude copper plate" drawing of the 1st Edition. It was first published April 25, 1719. The following months of May, June, and August witnessed the issue of the second, third, and fourth Editions of this "in"stantly and eternally” popular book.

The story is founded on the adventures of Alexander Selkirk (1676–1723), sailingmaster of the "Cinque Ports" Galley, who was "marooned" by Captain Stradling on the desolate island of Juan Fernandez for four years and four months (1704–1709), when he was rescued by Captain Woodes Rogers, the Commander of a Privateer. On his return to England, in about 1712, his adventures were published, and the original

narrative will be found in the Biographia Britannica. Whether Defoe saw Selkirk in the flesh or whether he read Steele's account of him in "The Englishman" (Dec. 1713) are doubtful points. Friday is said to have had his prototype in “a Mosquito Indian, described by William Dampier," the English Navigator.

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De Gasparin, Agénor Étienne, Comte (1810-1871).—AMERICA [478] before Europe. Principles and Interests. Translated from advance sheets, by Mary L. Booth. Third Edition. New York: Charles Scribner. 1862. I 2mo. Cloth.

.. The work was published in French in 1862.

De Gasparin, Agénor Étienne, Comte.-UPRISING, THE, of a [479] Great People. The United States in 1861. To which is added a Word of Peace on the Difference between England and the United States. From the French, by Mary L. Booth. New American Edition. From the Author's Revised Edition. New York: Charles Scribner. 1862. 12mo. Cloth.

This was published in French in 1861. The "Word of Peace" relates to the Trent affair, and was written in the interim between England's demand for Mason and Slidell, and their surrender.

De Genlis, Countess (1746-1830).—MEMOIRS (with Portrait): [480] Illustrative of the History of the Eighteenth and Nine

teenth Centuries. Written by Herself. New York: Wilder & Campbell. 1825. 2 vols. 8vo. Half morocco, top edges gilt.

... Most of her writings were translated into English as soon as they were published. She was "Gouverneur" to Louis Philippe, afterwards the King of the French, and her appointment (in 1781) in the household gave rise to much scandal. Her works fill over eighty volumes, and of her Memoirs, which are full of scandal and gossipy anecdotes, it was remarked, Ah what a dévote: She has confessed everybody's sins except her own. Her "adopted" daughter Pamela married Lord Edward Fitzgerald. De Godoy, Don Manuel (1767-1851).-MEMOIRS of Don Manuel [481] de Godoy, Prince of the Peace, etc. (with Portraits). Writ

ten by himself. Edited, under the superintendence of his Highness, by Lieut.-Colonel J. B. D'Esménard. With an Introduction, Historical and Biographical Notes, etc. London: Richard Bentley. 1836. 2 vols. 8vo. Half calf, edges sprinkled.

... The volumes are embellished with three portraits. De Godoy, Duke of Alcudia, received the title of "Prince of the Peace" and a large landed Estate for negotiating

Peace between Spain and France in 1795. His Estates were confiscated later, and he barely escaped with his life when the Abdication of Charles IV. of Spain, and his own disgrace, were accomplished in May, 1808. His Estates and titles were restored in 1847. He was excessively unpopular with the Spaniards, who regarded him as a parvenu and responsible for the defeat of Trafalgar. His Memoirs are a defence of his policy.

De Hübner, M. Le Baron.-RAMBLE, A, Round the World, 1871. [482] Translated by Lady Herbert. London: Macmillan and Co. 1884. 8vo. Cloth. 23 Illust. a. c.

The writer gives "a daily record," written down every evening, of "things that " he saw that were curious and, to him, new, and things told him during the day." He visited America, Japan, and China.

He proposes to visit India on a future occasion and "examine the results produced "in the course of a century by the contact of a great Christian nation with the millions "of Hindoos and Mussulmans subject to her dominion."

De Klinkowström, M. A.-METTERNICH'S MEMOIRS. See Metternich, Prince.

De la Motte, Madame de Valois.-THE DIAMOND NECKLACE. See Collectanea Adamantæa (Vol. XV.).

Delamotte, Philip H.-ART WORK in Earthenware. See Wheatley, Henry B.

Delaunay, M. L'Abbé.-PRESUMED Authors of the "Imitation." See A Kempis, Saint Thomas [L'Imitation].

Delauney, Alfred.-PARIS Pittoresque Historique et Archéolo[483] gique. Vues genérales et particulières. Eglises, Palais, Hôtels, Maisons, et Rues Anciennes. Dessinées d'après Nature et gravées à l'eau-forte. Paris: A. Delauney. 1867. Folio. Half morocco, top edges gilt. Illust., last page.

The volume consists of 72 etchings in three Series of 24 each. They are unusually interesting, as a large number of the sketches are of places rarely seen by the hurrying visitor and in many instances recall treasured "bits" which rarely find their way into ordinary "views." A separate descriptive Memorandum has been placed with the work.

De Lescure, M.-AMOURS, LES, de Henri IV.: Ouvrage orné de [484] quatre portraits dessinés d'après les originaux du temps.

Paris Achille Faure. 1864. 12mo. Red morocco

extra, doublé in blue, edges gilt. Binding by De Samblancx-Weckesser, drop case. Extra-illustrated.

This is No. 3 of an Edition limited to 100 copies, Nos. 1 12 on China paper. The binding is very choice. It is whole red morocco extra, doublé in blue morocco, with the letter" H" entwined with a crown, leaves, and motto, on the upper and lower sides. On the two inner covers are the monograms "Henri," and "G. d'E." in mosaic, in remembrance of Henri IV. and Gabrielle d'Estrées, protected by fly-leaves of silk moiré antique-the whole design invented by the binders.

The work gives a catalogue of the 56 mistresses of the King with the families from which they were descended and the years of their attachment to the King: Of nine of them full particulars are given, but especially full accounts of "La belle Corisande," Diane d'Andouins; "La grande maitresse," Gabrielle d'Estrées; and "La méchante "maitresse," Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues.

Several extra plates have been inserted by Mr. Clark, viz: four Portraits of Henri IV. (after the Half-title), by Thos. de Leu; (at p. i.), by Anton Wierx; (p. xxviii.), by Henri Goltzius; and (p. 440), by Jacques de Gheyn; and Portraits of Henriette de Balsac (p. 301), by Thos. de Leu, and “Gabrielle Des Tres" (p. 170), by Paul de la Honne: with an Allegorical Engraving by Moreau le jeune, as Frontispiece. The original illustrations, consisting of Portraits of Henri IV., Gabrielle D'Estrées, Henriette d'Entragues, and the Princesse de Condé, are given before and after letters. De Maistre, Xavier (1763–1852).—JOURNEY Round My Room. See Bibliotheca Curiosa (Vol. XVIII.).(a)

De Maistre, Xavier.-NOCTURNAL Expedition Round My Room. See Bibliotheca Curiosa (Vol. XVIII.).(6)

De Maistre, Xavier.-VOYAGE autour de ma Chambre suivi de [485] L'Expédition Nocturne. (With Portrait.) Préface par Jules Claretie. Six Eaux-fortes par Hédouin. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles [Jouast]. 1877. 8vo. 2 vols. in 1. Large paper copy. Blue levant morocco extra, with inner tooled borders, top edges gilt, rest uncut, in drop case.

This is No. I of a limited Edition of 210 copies, Nos. 1-20 being on China paper. The copies on China paper have double proofs of the illustrations, before and after let

ters.

See Notes, Bibliotheca Curiosa (Vol. XVIII.)(a) and (b).

From

De Mazade, M. Charles.-LIFE, THE, of Count Cavour. [486] the French. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1877. 8vo. Half calf, top edges gilt.

... Cavour (1810-1861), whose real life was concentred in the last ten years of his existence, has been not inaptly described as the fit co-countryman of Dante and Michael

Angelo. Dante created a great poem, and Michael Angelo, great masterpieces of art; Cavour brought to a new life the Country they all loved, thereby accomplishing a triumph rarely attained in politics.

De Moleville, Antoine François Marquis Bertrand (1744-1818).— [487] PRIVATE MEMOIRS relative to the last year of the reign of Lewis the Sixteenth, late King of France. Translated from the Original Manuscript of the Author, which has never been published. With five portraits, from original pictures, of the Royal Family of France. London: A. Strahan, and others. 1797. 3 vols. 8vo. Half calf, edges yellow.

.. A work written "to do justice to the character of Lewis XVI, and to detect the "calumnies invented by the most wicked of men to justify the dethroning, imprisoning, "and murdering of the most virtuous of kings." It is an account written by one who "had opportunities of knowing the principles on which His Majesty acted and the mo"tives of his conduct at a most important crisis."

The portraits mentioned on the title-page are wanting in this Edition.

De Montholon, Charles Tristan, Count (1782-1853).—MEMOIRS [488] of the History of France during the Reign of Napoleon, dictated by the Emperor at Saint Helena to the Generals who shared his Captivity; and published from the Original Manuscripts corrected by himself. Second Edition. Historical Miscellanies. London: Henry Colburn and Co. 1823. 3 vols. 8vo. Half calf, marbled edges.

These Volumes consist of a Series of "Notes" on "Baron Jomini's Treatise on "Grand Military Operations" and similar works, with Notes on the Wars of Marshal Turenne and Frederick II. The Volumes have several facsimile MSS. of the handwriting of Napoleon and of his amanuenses. In the Appendix to Vol. III. are some important papers relating to the arrest and trial of the Duc d'Enghien.

De Montholon, Charles Tristan, Count.-MEMOIRS of the History of France. See Gourgaud, General.

De Nerval, Gérard.-SYLVIE, Souvenirs du Valois : Préface par [489] Ludovic Halévy: 42 Compositions dessinées et gravées à l'eau-forte par Ed. Rudaux. Paris: L. Conquet. 1886. 18mo. Half blue morocco, top edges gilt, rest uncut.

... The etchings, except the Frontispiece (a charming scene of a girl looking out of an open window, over a dim religious cloister), are incorporated with the text.