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HISTORICAL AND SECRET MEMOIRS | PROSE WRITERS OF GERMANY. 



OF THE 



EMPRESS JOSEPHINE, 



(Marie Rose Tascher de la Pagerie,) 

 FIRST WIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. 

 BY MLLE. M. A. LE NORMAND. 

 Translated from the French by Jacob M, 

 Howard, Esq. 

 In 2 vols., 700 pages, muslin extra gilt. 

 *'Xt possesses great intrinsic interest. It 

 is a chequered exhibition of the undress life 

 of Napoleon. All the glitter and pomp and 

 dust of glory which bewilder the mind is 

 laid; and we behold not the hero, the em 



Eeror, the guide and moulder of destiny, 

 ut a poor sickly child and creature of cir- 

 cumstance—affrighted by shadows and lor 

 lured by straws."— PA?7ac?a. City Item. 



" This is one of the most interesting works 

 of the day, containing a multiplicity of in 

 cidents in the life of Josephine and her re- 

 nowned husband, which have never before 

 been m print."— i^. O. Times. 

 ^ " This is a work of high and commanding 

 interest, and derives great additional value 

 from the fact asserted by the authoress, that 



By FREDERICK H. HEDGE. 



ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT PORTRAITS AND AM 

 ENGRAVED TITLE-PAGE, FROM A DESIGN 

 BY LEUTZE. 



Complete in One Volume Octavo. 

 Contents* 



Luther, Boehme, Sancta Clara, Moser, 

 Kant, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Hamann, Wie- 

 land, Musaus, Claudius, Lavaier, Jacobi, 

 Herder, Goethe, Schiller, Fichte, Richter, 

 A. W. Schlegel, Schleiermacher, Hegel, 

 Zschokke, F. Schlegel, Hardenberg, Tieck, 

 Schelling, Hoffmann, Chamisso. 



"The author of this work— for it is well 

 entitled to the name of an original produc- 

 tion, though mainly consisting of transla- 

 I lions— Frederick H. Hedge of Bangor, is 

 qualified, as few men are in this country, 

 or wherever Ihe English language is writ- 

 ten, for the successful accomplishment of 

 the great literary enterprise to which he has 

 devoted his leisure for several years. 

 "Mr. Hedge has displayed great wisdom 



-iV. O. Com. 



irom me laci asserted by the authoress, that i . "eage nas aispiayed great wisdom 



the greater portion of it was written by the selection of the pieces to be trans- 



empress herself. It has a vast amount of?'^^^^' given the best specimens of 



mformalion on the subject of Napoleon's ^^^^ authors, so far as was possible in 

 career, with copies of original documents 5^^^ ^^"i^^^'^ space. 



^,"5 ^il^ copjous [ " We ve::ture to say that there cannot be 

 crowded into the same compass a more 

 faithful representation of the German mind, 

 or a richer exhibition of the profound 

 thought, subtle speculation, massive learn- 

 ing and genial temper, that characterize the 

 most eminent literary men of that nation." 

 — Harbinger. 



"What excellent matter we here have. 

 The choicest gems of exuberant fancy, the 

 most polished productions of scholarship, 

 the richest flow of th^ heart, the deepest 

 lessons of wisdom, all translated so well by 

 Mr. Hedge an(> his friends, that they seem 

 to have been first written by masters of the 

 English tongue."— r/ie City Item. 



"We have read the book with rare plea- 

 sure, and have derived not less information 

 than enjoyment." — Knickerbocker. 



" The selections are judicious and tasteful, 

 the biographies well wriltee and compro 

 hensive."— /nguirer 



not to be 



notes at the end of the work." 



Bulletin 



'Affords the reader a clearer insight into 

 the private character of Napoleon than he 

 can obtain through any other source."— 

 Baltimore American. 



"They are agreeably and well written ; 

 and It would be strange if it were not so, 

 enjoying as Josephine did, familiar collo- 

 quial intercourse with the most distinguish- 

 ed men and minds of the age. The work 

 does not, apparently, suffer by translation." 

 — Baltimore Patriot. 



It IS the history— in part the secret his- 

 tory, written by her own hand with rare 

 elegance and force, and at times with sur- 

 passing pathos-of the remarkable woman 

 who, by the greatness of her spirit was wor- 

 thy to be the wife of the soaring Napoleon. 

 a combines all the value of authentic his- 

 ■ory with the absorbing interest of an auto- 

 biography or exciting romance."— J?e?/i. 



