THE PARTERRE OR Poetry and Historical Romance; WITH ESSAYS, SKETCHES, AND ANECDOTES. ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS CHARACTERISTIC ENGRAVINGS BY SAMUEL WILLIAMS, IN THE FIRST STYLE OF THE ART. . LONDON: 16, KING WILLIAM STREET, LONDON BRIDGE. CHRISTMAS, 1836. CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE A Nautical Adventure - - - 9 | Chronicles of the Chateau - - 264 The Man who sold the Moiety of Fontana and the Nero Obelisk - 265 A Duel in the Seventeenth Century 277 Scenes of Private Life : - The The Abbey of Maubuisson - . 73 Katrina Schulyer - - - - 313 The Martial Fairy . . . 81 The Roving Pirate . . . 325 A Duel in the time of Henry III. 93 ESSAYS, SKETCHES, LETTERS, &c. The Sheik's Revenge - - - Characters in the Sorrows of Wer- Marie; or the Blue Kerchief . ter - - - - - - 10 Legend of Crosby Hall - . 145 The Cavalry Drill, a Comic Sketch 21 The Second Day's Drill - - Scraps from my Note Book - . with the Gory Cowl - - 241 | Byron and other writers - - 68 130 189 |