W R H Trowbridge: 3 books

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Court Beauties of Old Whitehall Historiettes of the Restoration. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this...

Trowbridge's object of this book has not been to paint finished portraits of beautiful women, but rather to popularise characters who helped to colour one of the most memorable periods of our history. From this point of view the Bestoration will be found to be a mine containing a vein from which ore may still be extracted — the ore of amusement from the vein of curiosity.

IF we may believe so eminent an authority as M. Emile Bourgeois, whose "Le Grand Siècle," is a fascinating proof of his statement, "the age we live in delights in inquiry into the private lives of the great and into the spirit of society of the past. It loves to interrogate them directly,...