. Review of reviews and world's work. s Russia and p]ngland, but at long distance fromthem. Her importations amount foabt)ut •$1,848,000(5)^per cent, of the total importation). In , theFrench importations were $1,4:^,000. So France hasmade a little —or, rather, she has retrievedthis last year very nearly the figure that she reached in1901-02. The other importing countries, taken all to-gether, show about their usual figure. THE NEW BOOKS. NOTES OX RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS. HISTORY AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS. A WORK of uuusual aud personal interestis the collected me
. Review of reviews and world's work. s Russia and p]ngland, but at long distance fromthem. Her importations amount foabt)ut •$1,848,000(5)^per cent, of the total importation). In , theFrench importations were $1,4:^,000. So France hasmade a little —or, rather, she has retrievedthis last year very nearly the figure that she reached in1901-02. The other importing countries, taken all to-gether, show about their usual figure. THE NEW BOOKS. NOTES OX RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS. HISTORY AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS. A WORK of uuusual aud personal interestis the collected memoirs of the lateDr. Thomas , which Appletons have just published under thetitle The Second Frencli Empire, sub-heading itXapoleon III., the Empress Eugenie, and the PrinceImperial. Dr. Evans was the American dentist inParis from 1847 until after the Commune. His longand close attachment to Xapoleon III. and his family,and the confidential relations he maintained with othersovereigns and princely .\»,i\«><vVi. DR. THOMAS W. EVANS. houses of Europe, afford-ed him unusual opportu-nities for thepolitical ideas and insti-tutions in France and theconditions and causesthat determined the fallof the second French Em-pire as seen from Empress Eugeniewas entertained by during her flightfrom Paris. The Emper-or was a closefriend of the Americandoctor. Just before hisdeath (in 1896), Dr. Evansbegan to write his mem-oirs and to gather to-gether into coherent form a sketch of the military andpolitical situation inFranceand Germany preceding thewar, including the escape of the Empress from Paris,—the latter a narrative which had remained unpublishedfor some twelve years, because of a feeling of delicacy onthe part of the writer. Dr. Evans died before his taskhad been completed, and the present volume has beenedited by Edward A. Crane, , one of his making no pretensions to literary ability. undoubted
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