DE BOURRIENNE'S Memoirs of Bonaparte, in one volume, is an
addition to what Messrs. SCOTT and WEBSTER call their " Eng- lish Classic Library ;" and it appears to us to contain the best life of NAPOLEON which has yet been published in so small a compass and at so low a price. The plan of the compiler has been to take DE BOURRIENNE'S work as a basis, and to incor- porate with it the account of those transactions which not falling under the observation of the Secretary, he avowedly omitted to notice: thus, the account of the siege of Toulon is abstracted from the Memoires Napoleon dictated at St. Helena, and the battle of Waterloo from the Remarks of Captain PRINGLE. As DE BOURRIENNE'S work alone Consists of ten volumes, whilst this biography is comprised in one thick pocket volume, the book is of course an abridgment ; but it appears a very able one. Not only are the leading points preserved, but the manner of the original is retained, as well as many of those minute details which give such interest and truth to the Memoirs of the Private Se- cretaiy. Altogether, it is a volume to be recommended for the fulness of its matter and the interest of its narrative, forming an agreeable pocket-book for young or old.
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