OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "It is a rare and elaborate monument of industry and genius. It is well worthy of taking a place beside the valuable productions of Lord Campbell." -Sunday Times. “It is, in truth, a work of very considerable merit, exhibiting tokens of great industry and care; and there is no reason why it should not occupy a high position in public estimation."-Morning Post. "The learned author is a very careful and truth-loving biographer."-Bell'8' Life in London. "To collect together the materials for nearly one-hundred-and-twenty biographical notices, scattered over a period of nearly five centuries, was indeed no easy task."-John Bull. "This volume, intimately connected with the history of the English constitution, will be found of the greatest use to the student as well as the statesman."— Weekly Despatch. "This is one of a very useful class of publications auxiliary to history, and Mr. MANNING has contrived to make the results of his biographical researches entertaining, while the moderate compass within which they are brought renders them convenient for reference."-The Globe. "Nor shall we do Lord Campbell a wrong, but rather pay him a compliment in placing this able work by the side of his 'Lives of the Chancellors.'"-St. James's Magazine. "Mr. MANNING has collated from every available source, a complete and correct account of those who have gloried in the title of the 'First Commoner of the Realm.'"-Britannia. "The kindly perseverance with which the author follows out the family destinies of the functionaries whom he has undertaken to biographise, betokens a general love for his subject, exercised not a little to the profit of his readers." -Atlas. "This work is a valuable sequel to Lord Campbell's 'Lives of the Chancellors and Chief Justices of England.'"-Bell's Weekly Messenger. "The Lives of the Speakers' will always be valuable as a book of reference." - Observer. THE LIVES OF THE SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, FROM THE TIME OF KING EDWARD III. TO QUEEN VICTORIA, COMPRISING THE BIOGRAPHIES OF UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED Distinguished Persuns, AND COPIOUS DETAILS OF THE PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND, FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS. BY JAMES ALEXANDER MANNING, Esq., OF THE INNER TEMPLE. LONDON: EORGE WILLIS, GREAT PIAZZA, COVENT GARDEN. |