Memoirs of Prince Talleyrand. Edited by the Due de Broglie.
Translated by Mrs. Angus Hall. Vol. III. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—This volume concludes the story of Talleyrand's connection with the First Restoration of 1814 and the Second of 1815, and it also relates his reappearance in political life after the Revolution of July.1830. His advice to the restored dynasty was to establish Constitutional Monarchy, and he resigned in the September of the Waterloo year, because he saw that his policy was not to be adopted. From this time he lived in retirement, but carefully watched the progress of events, and saw quite plainly, as we may gather from letters that are given, that the conduct of Charles X. would bring about a catastrophe. He was inclined to think that Louis Philippe's right course would have been to rule France as the constitutional vice-gerent of the elder branch. His life as Am- bassador here contains some interesting notes. He thought Lord Palmerston to be one of the ablest men of the day, and gauged with great correctness his extraordinary capacity of representing the typical English feeling. A memorandum containing his defence in the matter of the Due d'Enghien seems to us very inconclusive.
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