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Walpole, Horace, earl of Oriord—continued.<br />

pendix of books printed at the Strawberry-hill press.<br />

I8Q O<br />

g2 Wi86d<br />

"Mr. Dobson is an admirer, but a judicious one, and on the whole his<br />

picture. . .is eminently trustworthy." Spectator, 1891.<br />

Wesendonk, Frau Mathilde (Luckemeyer).<br />

Kobbe, Gustav. Wagner and his Isolde. 1905<br />

g2 Wi34ko<br />

This version of Wagner's friendship with Mathilde Wesendonk, who inspired<br />

his "Tristan und Isolde," was made in advance of, and without<br />

any knowledge of, Mr Ellis's translation of the letters to her. Those<br />

who have time and inclination for merely the most interesting parts of<br />

the episode, will find Mr Kobbe's volume just what they want.<br />

History<br />

General<br />

Lang, Andrew.<br />

Historical mysteries. 1904 904 L23I1<br />

Contents: The case of Elizabeth Canning.—The murder of Escovedo.—<br />

The Campden mystery.—The case of Allan Breck.—The cardinal's<br />

necklace.—The mystery of Kaspar Hauser, the child of Europe.—The<br />

Gowrie conspiracy.—The strange case of Daniel Dunglas Home.—The<br />

case of Captain Green.—Queen Oglethorpe.—The chevalier d'£on.—<br />

Saint-Germain the deathless.—The mystery of the Kirks.—The end of<br />

Jeanne de la Motte.<br />

Ingenious pursuits, by a skilful historical detective and mystery-monger,<br />

of some obscure secrets of history. The charm of the cases is<br />

that they are apparently insoluble, not one of the 14 problems he discusses<br />

being completely explained.<br />

Scherr, Johannes.<br />

Neues historienbuch. 1884 go4 S32<br />

Contents: Die dekabristen.—Ein antiker schwindler.—Konig und priester.—Von<br />

der landsknechtschaft.—Die nonne von Monza.—Die kindheit<br />

eines riesen.—Die tagebucher der fiirstin Metternich.—Ein<br />

prokop des zweiten empire.—Ein handeschiitteln mit Leo XIII.—Der<br />

teufel; eine biographische belustigung.<br />

Europe—History<br />

Adams, Ephraim Douglass.<br />

Influence of Grenville on Pitt's foreign policy, 1787-1798.<br />

1904. (Carnegie Institution of Washington. Publication<br />

no.13.)<br />

qrg42.o7 A21<br />

"Bibliography," p.75-79.<br />

Maintains that Grenville played an important part in formulating English<br />

foreign policy during the French revolution.<br />

Ahnfelt, Arvid.<br />

Skandinavische hof- und staatsgeschichten des neunzehnten<br />

jahrhunderts; nach den schwedischen quellen von<br />

Heinrich Martens. 1887 948 A28<br />

Blanc, Jean Joseph Louis.<br />

Geschichte der zehn jahre, 1830-1840. 1847<br />

944.06 B53<br />

Dill, Samuel.<br />

Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. 1905 g37 Ds8r<br />

Contents: The aristocracy under the terror.—The world of the satirist.<br />

—The society of the freedmen.—The circle of the younger Pliny.—<br />

Municipal life.—The colleges and plebeian life.—The philosophic director.—The<br />

philosophic missionary.—The philosophic theologian.—<br />

Superstition.—Belief in immortality.—The old Roman religion.—<br />

Magna Mater.—Iris and Serapis.—The religion of Mithra.<br />

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