Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Life of Napoleon
Napoleonic idea; it is the best draw possible in a free country with a free people, who overlook the fact that he was the most despotic ruler the world has ever known.
NO more splendid monument has been raised to his grandeur than the elaborate work lately prepared by Professor Sloane. Here in England, too, the country of his peculiar and persistent aversion, which he never dared attack, but would have ruined insidiously by his commercial system, Napoleon enjoys unbounded popularity. Every book about him is read with avidity new works elucidating new phases in-his many-sided character appear continually, and are welcomed widely they are in large demand at the booksellers and the lending libraries. The walls of the Academy year after year bear witness to the hold he has on the artistic imagination; adaptations from the French stage attract large audiences at London theatres.
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