RECENT FOREIGN LITERATURE. 93 bonne ville et noble.' The historian goes through twenty cen- turies of struggle and glory and defeat and decadence, and ends with the hope that the city's importance will be revived. The addition of an index would greatly add to the usefulness of the book. Inedits Napoleoniens. Par Arthur Chuquet. A complement to the already published volume entitled 'Ordres et Apostilles.' It contains notes, etc., made by Napoleon in the last years of the Empire. Napoleon et La Vendee. Par Emile Gabory. Based on unpublished documents in the archives of the depart- ment of La Vendee. The Vendeans welcomed the Consulate, and only withdrew their allegiance to Napoleon when his insati- able greed of men and money discouraged their loyalty. La Campagne de France. Napoleon et les Allies sur le Rhin. Par Ct. Lefebvre de Behaine. Fre*de"ric Masson contributes an introduction to the work of his nephew and pupil. The book shows wide and deep research. Le General Dumouriez, 1739-1823. Par Pouget de Saint-Andre. Based on unpublished documents discovered by the author that go to prove that Dumouriez was not the adventurer, * sans foi ni loi, perdu des vices et trahissant tous les partis,' that he is usually represented to be. He is rather a great man who was the victim of events. Lady Hamilton. Ambassadrice d'Angleterre et la revolution de Naples d'apres des documents inedits (1763-1815). Par Joseph Turquan et Jules d'Auriac. Lady Hamilton is here well characterised as * une aventuriere de haut vol,' not a heroine, but a woman who sometimes and by chance rose to the part her beauty assigned her, but never sustained it for long.
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