Napoleon Bonaparte.
Life and Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte: Giving an account of all his engagements, from the siege of Toulon to the battle of Waterloo; also embracing accounts of the daring exploits of his Marshals; together with his public and private life, from the commencement of his career to his final imprisonment and death on the rock of St. Helena. Translated from the French of M. A. Arnault and C. L. F. Pauckoucke. New edition, in one volume, illustrated.
This is unquestionably the most authentic, impartial, and complete life of this great General now before the American public. The translator says in his preface: “In ushering these memoirs of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte into the world, we have not confined ourselves to the splendid work of M. A. Arnault; but, in order to furnish a faithful narrative, public, political, and private, have availed ourselves of every species of information afforded by different authorities, from the commencement of the career of the departed hero, to the closing scene of his last hours at St. Helena.”
Burns’ Poetical Works.
In comparing this edition with others, it will be found to possess several advantages. It contains, besides a number of other pieces not inserted in Dr. Currie’s edition, The Jolly Beggars, a cantata replete with humorous description and discrimination of character; as also his celebrated Holy Willie’s Prayer, a piece of satire unequalled for exquisite severity and felicitous delineation.
In the editions hitherto published, no regard is paid to method of classification. In this, the poems are