24 OCTOBER 1891, Page 22

Marie Louise and the Invasion of 1814. By Imbert de

Saint- Amend. Translated by Thomas Sergeant Perry. (Hutchinson. and Co.)—There is not much—indeed, there could not be much— about Marie Louise in this volume. She was Empress-Regent during the absence of Napoleon at the seat of war, but her government was little more than a shadow. She left Paris with her little son—who, by-the-way, vehemently resisted, crying out. " Now that papa is away, I'm master here "—on March 28th. Just a week later her husband abdicated. All that the Empress had really done was to implore her father to accept Napoleon's offers of peace. But the Austrian Emperor, whatever he may have wished, was powerless. About the invasion of 1814 there is much that is interesting in this volume. -