Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 1581. His character is strongly marked in his memoirs, which show him to be vain, punctilious, and fanciful, but open, generous, brave, and disinterested. His style is manly, strong, and free from the quaint pedantry of his age.-Enc. Am. 8vo, $2, London, 1826. (See third part.) Winthrop, 1588. Rochefoucault, 1613. He described the disturbances of the Fronde (1648-52) with the hand of a master, and has, notwithstanding his obvious partiality, great clearness and sagacity in relating and developing events, furnishes admirable portraits of the principal personages described, and is distinguished for animation and natural colouring.—Enc. Am. (See third part.) De Retz, 1614. Pepys, 1620, On the accession of William and Mary, he published his memoirs relating to the navy for ten years preceding. His diary affords a curious picture of the dissolute court of Charles II.-Penny Cyc. 2 vols., $9, London, 1825. Burnet, 1643. "History of his Own Times." With rarely anything like elegance, there is a fluency, and sometimes a rude strength in his style, which makes his work readable enough. Although it shows him to have been possessed of vanity and bustling officiousness, its testimony is very favourable to the excellence of his heart and moral nature, to his disinterestedness, his courage, his public spirit, and even to his ability and talent, within the proper range of his powers.—Penny Čyc. 8vo, $5. (See third part.) Mather, 1663. Calamy, 1675. This He is the author of "Baxter's Life and Times." work abounds in notices of the men, the transactions, the habits, and the opinions of the stirring period in which he lived.-Penny Cyc. 2 vols. 8vo, $2 50. Duclos, 1705. He is the author of Memoirs on the Manners of the Eighteenth Century. Though he took Tacitus for his model, he resembles him little in his delineation of character and the interest of his narrative. Madame d'Epinay, 1712. Her Memoirs give a true picture of the refined, but corrupt, manners which prevailed among the higher classes in France during the government of Louis XIV.-Enc. Am. Paris, 3 vols., 1818. Walpole, 1718. His Memoirs of the last ten years of the reign of George II. (2 vols. 4to, 1822) are of the highest value for the domestic history of that period.-Enc. Am. Marmontel, 1723. He holds a high rank among modern French authors. Warm and eloquent on elevated subjects, easy, lively, inventive, and ingenious on light ones, he addresses himself with equal success to the imagination, the judgment, and the heart.-Enc. Am. 2 vols. 12mo, $1 00. Castelneau. His Memoirs (1559-70, Brussels, 1731, 3 vols. folio) are distinguished for the highest political honesty, for the soundness, maturity, and clearness of his judgment, as much as for his dignified and tranquil manner.—Enc. Am. Watson, 1737. The volume entitled "Anecdotes of the Life of Bishop Watson" were written by himself, and contain much useful and interesting information.-Edinb. Enc. 8vo, $150, Philadelphia, 1818. Madame Campan, 1752. Her Memoirs respecting the private life of Marie Antoinette, with Recollections of the Times of Louis Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth, in 4 vols., contain interesting contributions to the History of the French Revolution.-Enc. Am. Dohm, 1752. His highly valuable Memoi's consist of a series of histor ical treatises upon the events of our times, in which Dohm has taken more or less part, or respecting which he has made investigations.-Enc. Am. Madame Roland, 1754. The best edition is that, "Memoirs de Madame Roland, avec une notice sur sa Vie" (1820). In them she gives an interesting account about her husband, his conduct, his ministry, and their private life.-Blake. 8vo, $1 50, Paris. Madame La Roche Jacqueline. She has written memoirs on the war in La Vendée, which contain vivid pictures of the events.-Enc. Am. Wraxall, 1760. "Memoirs of his Own Times." The author, a native of Bristol, in England, spent part of his life in the East Indies, and then travelled on the Continent to a great extent. His Memoirs are full of interesting incident.—Enc. Am. 7 vols., $14 00. Wakefield, 1776. He wrote "Memoirs of his Own Life," 2d edition, 1804, 2 vols. 8vo, a characteristic performance.-Enc. Am. Bourrienne. Highly entertaining Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, translated, 18mo $1 75. VI. BIOGRAPHY. Cicero, 106 B.C. "Middleton's Life of Cicero." Cicero's life, interesting on many accounts, is particularly so to the historical politician, as showing the consequences of the deplorable state of the Roman Republic in the case of so distinguished an individual, as well as the impossibility of preserving its liberty.— Enc. Am. 8vo, $2 50. Philostratus, third century. He wrote a valuable and interesting work entitled "Lives of the Sophists." It contains a fund of anecdotes illustrating the manners and morals of these ostentatious pretenders, and gives a vivid picture of the decline of eloquence.-Enc. Am. A good English translation by Edw. Berwick, London, 1812, 8vo. Plutarch, second century. (See third part.) Diogenes Laertius, third century. His "Lives of the Philosophers" contains the biography of the principal philosophers of the various sects, together with their most remarkable apophthegms.-Eschb. The best edition, M. Meibomius, Greek and Latin, Amsterdam, 1692, 2 vols. 4to; English translation, London, 1688, 2 vols. 8vo. Petrarch, 1304. The best of his biographers is the Abbé de Sade, a descendant of his Laura. Chaucer, 1360. Godwin's Life of Chaucer. A more honest and sincere votary of truth never existed than Mr. Godwin.—Penny Cyc. 4 vols. 8vo, $7 50, London. Joan of Arc, 1410. The story of her is, throughout, disgraceful to every one, friend or foe; it forms one of the most curious enigmas in historic record. It has sometimes been suggested that she was merely a tool in the hands of the priests; but these suppositions will hardly satisfy those who read with attention the history of Joan of Arc.-Penny Cyc. A good account of her is given in Lebrun des Charmettes, Histoire de Jeanne d'Arc (Paris, 1817, 3 volumes). Wolsey, 1471. Cavendish's Life of Wolsey seems to have been written with great regard for truth, the author frequently stating facts which leave upon the reader an impression very different from the spirit in which the author gives them.-Lieber. Knox, 1505 (M'Crie's Life of). This work contains a copious narrative of the private life and public labours of the great founder of the Protestant faith in Scotland. The materials of the work are derived from a diligent collection of the different writers on that part of ecclesiastical history of which he treats, and from a consider able number of manuscript letters of the reformer.-Christian Observer. $200, Edinburgh, 1841. Vasari, 1512. His "Lives of the most eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects" are highly esteemed, both on account of the facts the work contains, and for the scattered remarks in regard to the progress of the arts. It, however, has fallen into many errors respecting the earlier masters, a circumstance owing to the imperfections of existing accounts; and it is also guilty of partiality towards the Tuscan artists.-Enc. Am. 2 vols. 8vo, $12 00, Florence, 1832. Fox's Book of Martyrs, 1517. (See third part.) G. Ridley's Life of the Reformer Ridley, 1538. Tasso, 1544. His life, with an historical and critical account of his writings, by John Black, 2 vols. 4to, $4 50, Edinburgh, 1810. Mirror for Magistrates, 1559. 2 vols. 4to, 1815. Cecil, 1563 (Nare's Life of). Walton, 1593. His Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, and Sanderson, exhibit a most pleasing picture of the abilities of the indefatigable author, and abound with interesting and curious anecdotes of men eminent in rank, in talent, and in learning. -Blake 12mo, $2 83.. Ruinart, 1617. He gives accounts of the lives and deaths of the early Christian martyrs, folio, Amsterdam, 1713.—Penny Cyc. Ashmole, 1617. His work "The History of the Order of the Garter" procured him great fame, and shows a vast amount of study and research into antiquity.-Penny Cyc. N |