Charles Macfarlane

On his way home, in the summer of 1848, they visited Messina and made a tour through the kingdom of Naples, the Abruzzi, the marches of Ancona, and Rome.

[3][4][5] An abridgment, with a continuation bringing it up to date, was published under the title of The Cabinet History of England, 26 vols.

[6] Another edition, with the title changed to The Comprehensive History of England, appeared under the editorship of Thomas Napier Thomson, 4 vols.

For Knight also, Macfarlane compiled anonymously two volumes called The Book of Table Talk,[9] 1836 (another edition 1847), for which James Robinson Planché wrote a brief history of stage costume.

They had six children: Charles, Arabella, Blanche, Malcolm (died young), Victor and Marion Macfarlane.