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264 WORKS by the Late LORD THE PILGRIMAGE, DONNA CHARITEA, PLUEDEARD, AND OTHER POEMS. With Illustrat►ons. Crown 4to. 245. "A pleasant task Is before any future Walpole who may be dianosed to bring down his predecessor's Catalogue of ' lto)al and Noble Authors to the limo present. Few names in the mod .?rn list would figure more agreeably than that of the Earl of THE CAMPAIGN of 1812, in RUSSIA. By GKNKRAL CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ. Translated front the German. Map. Bro. 10s. 6d. THE SIEGES OF VIENNA BY THE TURKS. From the German. Post Bvo. 2s. thl. SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF A SOLI) lER TN ACTIVE szavtme.. The Campaign of Radetzky, in Piedniont,—The Defence of Temeswar—the Camp of the Ran. Translated from the German. Post Bvo. Bs. Bd. LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE LATE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. Peep. Svo. ed. yr. THE WAR IN THE CRIMEA. Fcap. Svo. 2i. Otl. WELLINGTON; HIS CHARACTER- HIS ACTIONS, AND lIIS WRITINOS. Ay JULES MAU REL. With a Preface, by LORD ELLESMERE. Fcap. bro. IS. 6J. JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street. Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors Now ready, Vols. 1 to 3 (to be completed with an Index, in 10 Monthly Volumes), crown dvo., 6s. each, LIVES OF THE LORD CHANCELLORS, AND KEEPERS OF THE GREAT SEAL OF ENG LAND, from the Earliest Times till the Reign of George the Fourth. By the Right lion. JOHN, Lotd CAMPBELL, LL.D., Lord Chh'fJustice of England. Fourth and Revised Edition. " The first series of the 'Lives' was published iu 1845, and in less than six months a new edition was called for. Equal suc cess attended the concluding series, and now the noble and learned lord is publishing a fourth and cheaper edition of the whole in ten volumes, adopting the same form of publication which has been followed by Mr. II allam in his great historical works. 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