The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-23 00:00:00

THE EMPEROEHONAPARTE3 LIBRARY.

The 19th volume of the Napoleon correspondence
has jest been published et Perim. It fills 634 pages, and
contains 751 letters written or dictated between the 14th of
May, 1809, and the 15th of October of the mine year,
Knowing what vast projects Napoleon was engaged in
during the whole period they embraced, one is surprised to
find he could write or dictate on an average five or six letters
a day.
The Emperor closes a day full of matters of the highest
moment with the following letter to bis private librarian,
M. Bsrbier, at Paris :

" Behtiabrun, May 14, 1809.

" Tho Emperor thinks that his library is badly organised.
There are many useless books in it. Of this number are
the following :--The Works of Parny, 5 vols., in 12mo. ;
ditto of Bertia, 2 vols., la 12mo. ; Thant of Second-
class authors,' 8 vols., is 12mo. ; 'bisoourses on &nun
and Toning,' 4 vols., in 12mo. ; The Lives of Cele-
brated Mariners,' 12 vols., in 12mo. ; ' The Letters of
Dupaty on Italy,' 3 vols., in 12mo. ; ' The Three King-
doms,' by Delillq 2 vole., in 12mo. ; History el Jovianns,'
2 vols., in 12m0.; 'The Lenten of Madame de &vivre,' 11
vole., is 12mo. ; ' The Bamako,' 1 vol., in 12mo. ; 'Selec-
tions from Billion,' 1 vol., in 12mo. ; The Memoirs of
Rochefoucalt,' 1 vol., in 12mo. ; 'The Recollections of
MadamedeCaylns,' 1 vol. in 12mo. ; The Bible of Cologne,'
1 voL, in 12mo. ; The Iliad,' 2 vole., in 12mo. ; Tomo,
2 vols., in 12mo ; Camoens, 3 vols., in 12mo. ; ' The
2Erieid,' 4 vole., in 12mo. ; Milton, 3 vols., in 12mo. The
last six wcrks are to be exchanged for aDe Sao; Bible,
in 12mo. ; the ' Hind,' in 12mo. ; Tomo, in 12m0., Italian
and French ; Camoess, in 12mo. ; lEneld,' prose, in 121110..
and Milton, in prose, in 12mo. All to be of small size.
The Emperor will not have any works of poetry and
literature in 12mo. This oize should be reserved only for
history and chroniolee. The collection of Greek romances
is too large. The print of the Cologne Bible is not legible:
The /Eoeid,' and Milton are in verse, and his Majesty
deeres to have prose translatioon Eleven volumes of
Madame de Sevigni talcs up too much room ; you must get
a collection of her letters of small size. All the Wises
above-mentioned are rejected as =elem. Here are the
books which M. Berner will put in their plecoo-Tecitne,
in French, in 12mo. ; Gibbon, in 12mo. ; Didorus Sicedun
in 12mo. ; the poem of Pitif, is 12mo. ; sod 'Gil Bias,' the
same. The ' Men_oirs of Da Betz' are printed on horribly
bad paper, and the printing is equally bed ; they must be
exchanged for somethiog bettor. Fina'ly, the following
must be sent-1. Tacitas, in French ;2. Gibbon ;3. Dio-
dome Siculas ;4. Memoirs of De Betz ; 5. A selection of
' Madame de Sevignd's Letters ; 6. De Sacy Bible--
the whole six in 12mo. ; 7. ' The Iliad ;' 8. 'The 2Eneid,'
in prole ; 9. Tomo, Italian and Preach ; 10. Canioens;
11. Milton, in pry ; 12, a selection of Greek romances ;
13, ' Gil Bias ; and 14, 'La htie', a poem. All these
from the 70, to bs of a small sire.

The Madrid correspondent of the Times writes .
" The wretchedness of the people here is stilt on the in-
censes. The usual results of the Carnival season begin to
be visible ; it has brought to beggary marry of the wretches
who. while bordering on the brink of it, were, however,
improvident enough to squander away their last copper
in the silly indulgence of dancing and masquerad-
ing pleasures. The number of mendicants in Madrid
is appalling. Nor are the provinces free from the
same plague. At Avila, where I was the other day,
it seemed as if every sawed person I met was a
beggar. They crowd the doors and the very staircases of
the inns to the upper floors ; they swarm in and out of the
churches ; they lie everywhere on the pavement. It ie
sad, shocking, heart-rending sight. Ofte good thing there
is about the generality of Spanish beggars, however ; they
are not importunate, and slink away, on the first rebuke."
A greater number of Americana are now in
Rome than have been there goes the wee. Last week
there were shoat 000, and at one time in the Hotel de
Rome close there were 200.
A Voixwrasa DII3I3IZD Orr.—A few days
size& at Bradford-on-Avon, one of the members of the 9th
Wilts drum and fife band, who had moved rebellious, was
drowned out, tha band playing the " Rogue's Manh."
—Dnisa Gamete.