BOOKS ON THE TABLE.
1. Calabria, during a Military Residence of Three Years. (E. Li ilson.)—This is an account of the proceedings of the French in the very extremity of Italy, subsequent to the battle of Maida, and preliminary to the establishment of MURAT on the throne of Naples. The author, a general officer in the French army, was brought into constant contact with the armed peasants, and other inhabitants in a state of insurrection,—whom he invariably terms brigands; and in his various marches and counter-marches, saw a great deal of this lovely part of the world, and its wild inhabit- ants. The descriptions of scenery and the author's adventures are romantic and interesting. His narratives of military proceed- ings, like all others from a French source, are partial: the French, in war, can do no wrong.
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