University of Virginia Library

MISCELLANEOUS.

MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF KING
CHARLES THE FIRST. By Lucy Aiken.
2 vols. 8vo.

"The admirers of Charles the First, owe no gratitude
to Miss Aiken. She has told too plain a tale.
She has given, it is true, no summary of the character
of that monarch, but she has devoted an extensive
work to a faithful relation of his public works and actions,
and has left it to tell his story."—Athenæum.

"Following up her interesting career of a historical
writer, Lucy Aiken has here produced one of those
episodes belonging to our national annals, which add
to the importance of facts elaborated from many a
source, all the charms which are usually found in the
inventions of fiction.

"Suffice it to say, that from family and other papers
long hidden from the public view, new lights are ever
and anon shed upon the actors and proceedings of that
time: and that without delving too deeply into them,
our intelligent author has wrought the whole into one
of those agreeable narratives for which her pen is so
justly popular."—Lit. Gazette.