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[Symbol: asterism] _M.G. Lenotre is perhaps the most
widely read of a group of modern French writers who have
succeeded in treating history from a point of view at
once scientific, dramatic and popular. He has made the
Revolution his particular field of research, and deals not
only with the most prominent figures of that period, but
with many minor characters whose life-stories are quite as
thrilling as anything in fiction. The localities in which
these dramas were enacted are vividly brought before us in
his works, for no one has reconstructed 18th century Paris
with more picturesque and accurate detail. "The Daughter of
Louis XVI." is quite equal in interest and literary merit
to any of the volumes which have preceded it, not excepting
the famous Drama of Varennes. As usual, M. Lenotre draws
his material largely from contemporary documents, and among
the most remarkable memoirs reproduced in this book are
"The Story of my Visit to the Temple" by Harmand de la
Meuse, and the artless, but profoundly touching narrative
of the unhappy orphaned Princess: "A manuscript written by
Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France upon the captivity of the
Princes and Princesses, her relatives, imprisoned in the
Temple." The illustrations are a feature of the volume and
include the so-called "telescope" portrait of the Princess,
sketched from life by an anonymous artist, stationed at a
window opposite her prison in the tower of the Temple._

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SIR MARTIN CONWAY'S NOTE.

_Nearly half a century has passed since Mr. W.H. James
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[Symbol: asterism] _No complete Life of Vincenzo Foppa, one
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of painters, and of subjects relating to the art of Italy.
In Milanese territory--the sphere of Foppa's activity
during many years--he was regarded by his contemporaries
as unrivalled in his art, and his right to be considered
the head and founder of the Lombard school is undoubted.
His influence was powerful and far-reaching, extending
eastwards beyond the limits of Brescian territory, and
south and westwards to Liguria and Piedmont. In the
Milanese district it was practically dominant for over
a quarter of a century, until the coming of Leonardo da
Vinci thrust Foppa and his followers into the shade, and
induced him to abandon Pavia, which had been his home for
more than thirty years, and to return to Brescia. The
object of the authors of this book has been to present a
true picture of the master's life based upon the testimony
of records in Italian archives; all facts hitherto known
relating to him have been brought together; all statements
have been verified; and a great deal of new and unpublished
material has been added. The authors have unearthed a large
amount of new material relating to Foppa, one of the most
interesting facts brought to light being that he lived
for twenty-three years longer than was formerly supposed.
The illustrations will include several pictures by Foppa
hitherto unknown in the history of art, and others which
have never before been published, as well as reproductions
of every existing work by the master at present known._

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