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THE LIFE OF

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE PRINCE CONSORT.

By THEODORE MARTIN.

_With Portraits and Views. Volume the First. 12mo. Cloth. Price_, $2.00.

"The book, indeed, is more comprehensive than its title implies.
Purporting to tell the life of the Prince Consort, it includes a
scarcely less minute biography--which may be regarded as almost an
autobiography--of the Queen herself; and, when it is complete, it
will probably present a more minute history of the domestic life
of a queen and her 'master' (the term is Her Majesty's) than has
ever before appeared."--_From the Athenæeum._

"Mr. Martin has accomplished his task with a success which could
scarcely have been anticipated. His biography of Prince Albert
would be valuable and instructive even if it were addressed to
remote and indifferent readers who had no special interest in the
English court or in the royal family. Prince Albert's actual
celebrity is inseparably associated with the high position which
he occupied, but his claim to permanent reputation depends on the
moral and intellectual qualities which were singularly adapted to
the circumstances of his career. In any rank of life he would
probably have attained distinction; but his prudence, his
self-denial, and his aptitude for acquiring practical knowledge,
could scarcely have found a more suitable field of exercise than
in his peculiar situation as the acknowledged head of a
constitutional monarchy."--_From the Saturday Review._

"The author writes with dignity and grace, he values his
subject, and treats him with a certain courtly reverence, yet
never once sinks into the panegyrist, and while apparently most
frank--so frank, that the reticent English people may feel the
intimacy of his domestic narratives almost painful--he is
never once betrayed into a momentary indiscretion. The almost
idyllic beauty of the relation between the Prince Consort and
the Queen comes out as fully as in all previous histories of
that relation--and we have now had three--as does also a good
deal of evidence as to the Queen's own character, hitherto
always kept down, and, as it were, self effaced in publications
written or sanctioned by herself."--_From the London Spectator._

"Of the abilities which have been claimed for the Prince Consort,
this work affords us small means of judging. But of his wisdom,
strong sense of duty, and great dignity and purity of character,
the volume furnishes ample evidence. In this way it will be of
service to any one who reads it."--_From the New York Evening
Post._

"There is a striking contrast between this volume and the Greville
Memoirs, which relate to a period in English history immediately
preceding Prince Albert's marriage with Queen Victoria. Radical
changes were effected in court-life by Victoria's accession to the
throne.... In the work before us, which is the unfolding of a
model home-life, a life in fact unrivaled in the abodes of modern
royalty, there is nothing but what the purest mind can read with
real pleasure and profit.

"Mr. Martin draws a most exquisite portraiture of the married life
of the royal pair, which seems to have been as nearly perfect as
any thing human can be. The volume closes shortly after the
Revolution of 1848, at Paris, when Louis Philippe and his hapless
queen were fleeing to England in search of an asylum from the
fearful forebodings which overhung their pathway. It was a trying
time for England, but, says Mr. Martin with true dramatic effect
in the closing passages of his book: 'When the storm burst, it
found him prepared. In rising to meet the difficulties of the
hour, the prince found the best support in the cheerful courage of
the queen,' who on the 4th of April of that same year wrote to
King Leopold: 'I never was calmer and quieter or less nervous.
Great events make me calm; it is only trifles that irritate my
nerves.' Thus ends the first volume of one of the most important
biographies of the present time. The second volume will follow as
soon as its preparation can be effected."--_From the Hartford
Evening Post._