12 DECEMBER 1863, Page 9

THE GOVERNING FAMILIES.

THE next of this series will appear next week. It is scarcely necessary to say that none of these family histories are compilations which one lit irateur could make just as well as another. They are real y histories, verified from original sources by a historian singularly acquainted with our past English life. An occasional hiatus of a week in every few months is, therefore, unavoidable.