Devereux — Volume 01

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E. B. L. - DEDICATORY EPISTLE - TO - JOHN AULDJO, ESQ., ETC., - AT NAPLES - LONDON.

MORTON DEVEREUX. - NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION (1852).

CHAPTER IV. Paris.—A Female Politician, and an Ecclesiastical One.—Sundry other Matters - CHAPTER V. A Meeting of Wits.—Conversation gone out to Supper in her Dress of Velvet and Jewels - CHAPTER VI. A Court, Courtiers, and a King - CHAPTER VII. Reflections.—A Soiree.—The Appearance of one important in the History.—A Conversation with Madame de Balzac highly satisfactory and cheering.—A Rencontre with a curious old Soldier.— The Extinction of a once great Luminary - CHAPTER VIII. In which there is Reason to fear that Princes are not invariably free from Human Peccadilloes - CHAPTER IX. A Prince, an Audience, and a Secret Embassy - CHAPTER X. Royal Exertions for the Good of the People - CHAPTER XI. An Interview - Book V. - CHAPTER I. A Portrait - CHAPTER II. The Entrance into Petersburg.—A Rencontre with an inquisitive and mysterious Stranger.—Nothing like Travel - CHAPTER III. The Czar.—The Czarina.—A Feast at a Russian Nobleman's - CHAPTER IV. Conversations with the Czar.—If Cromwell was the greatest Man (Caesar excepted) who ever /rose/ to the Supreme Power, Peter was the greatest Man ever /born/ to it - CHAPTER V. Return to Paris.—Interview with Bolingbroke.—A gallant Adventure. —Affair with Dubois.—Public Life is a Drama, in which private Vices generally play the Part of the Scene-shifters - CHAPTER VI. A long Interval of Years.—A Change of Mind and its Causes - Book VI. - CHAPTER I. The Retreat - CHAPTER II. The Victory - CHAPTER III. The Hermit of the Well - CHAPTER IV. The Solution of many Mysteries.—A dark View of the Life and Nature of Man - CHAPTER V. In which the History makes a great Stride towards the final Catastrophe. —The Return to England, and the Visit to a Devotee - CHAPTER VI. The Retreat of a celebrated Man, and a Visit to a great Poet - CHAPTER VII. The Plot approaches its /Denouement/ - CHAPTER VIII. The Catastrophe - CONCLUSION - DEVEREUX. - BOOK I. - CHAPTER I. - OF THE HERO'S BIRTH AND PARENTAGE.—NOTHING CAN DIFFER MORE FROM THE END OF THINGS THAN THEIR BEGINNING.

ISORA D'ALVAREZ.

C. D. B.