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OTHER WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

One Volume 8vo., of 650 pages, illustrated with Steel Engravings of two unpublished Portraits and 45 Wood Engravings, price 24s,

THE LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS OF EDWARD SOMERSET, SIXTH EARL AND SECOND MARQUIS OF WORCESTER,

To which is added,

A REPRINT OF HIS CENTURY OF INVENTIONS (1663), WITH A COMMENTARY THEREON.

"A monument raised late, it is true, but not too late, to a great and modest genius. A national biography which illustrates and elevates our ideas of the past, and a contribution which the world will recognize to the European history of Science."

Dublin University Magazine, September, 1865.

"A work which displays a high order of literary ability, careful antiquarian research, much ingenuity, and withal thorough honesty of purpose.

"[Lord Worcester], his life, told as Mr. Dircks has told it, is one of much interest.

"Here we have an elaborate--although of course not a completely exhaustive--account of his life; at any rate the most complete account of him ever likely to be written--a work filled with abundant evidence of the most painstaking research, a work written in a generous and sympathising spirit, and with every attribute of conscientiousness."

Engineering, 5th January, 1866.

"The production of this volume is no common achievement; Mr. Dircks has undertaken to write the life of a man about whom the public know very little.

"He has, we think, collected some curious information, and established the claim of the Marquis to be the first constructor of a steam-engine. The reprint of the celebrated Century of Inventions adds greatly to the interest of the volume."--The Spectator, 14th September, 1867.

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One Volume, 8vo., price 21s, only 100 copies printed,

WORCESTERIANA;

A COLLECTION OF

BIOGRAPHICAL AND OTHER NOTICES, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED, RELATING TO EDWARD SOMERSET, SECOND

MARQUIS OF WORCESTER,

AND HIS IMMEDIATE FAMILY CONNECTIONS; WITH OCCASIONAL NOTES.

"The present volume is, as it were, a supplement. [To. Mr. Dircks's Life of the Marquis of Worcester.] It contains what the French call 'pièces justificatives,' on which that biography was founded; and such other materials connected with the history of Lord Worcester's family and his invention of the steam-engine as will prevent, as far as possible, a repetition of the gross errors hitherto promulgated on these subjects."