CONSTABLE’S MISCELLANY. 
The Publishers beg leave to announce, that the 72d 
volume of the Miscellany will contain Memoirs of the 
Empress Josephine, by Dr Memes, the translator of 
Bourrienne’s Napoleon. In the present volume, Dr Memes 
may be considered more as redacleur than as either translator 
or author, taking for his groundwork the celebrated memoirs 
of the Empress, by Madame de Remusat, regarding which 
work it maybe sufficient to quote the opinion of an eminent 
French critic, while reviewing the volumes of Bourrienne : — 
“ From these, the only genuine and impartial Memoirs 
of the Emperor, we cannot disjoin those of his first consort. 
While Bourrienne, in the former, describes the public acts 
or unfolds the secret policy of Napoleon — the master of 
France, almost of Europe — the lady who writes the Life 
of Josephine unveils the privacy of the courts of the 
Tuileries, Mulmaison, and St Cloud. Whoever wishes to 
be fully acquainted with the most wonderful era in modern 
history, will place these works side by side on the shelves 
of his library. The two are inseparable. While a distin- 
guished man describes the transactions of the cabinet and 
the field, a female of high rank, of eminent accomplishments, 
and who enjoyed the intimate converse of the fair inmate, 
narrates the occurrences of the boudoir. ” 
This is perfectly true. The two works throw mutual 
light upon each other. The Memoirs of the Empress, too, 
are particularly valuable, as supplying many private details 
of the “ hundred days,” a space rather hastily passed over 
by Bourrienne. 
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Edinburgh, August, 1831. 
*** For list of Works already published in Constable’s Mis- 
cellany, see the end of the volume. 
