NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
THE TREASON OF BENEDICT ARNOLD.
MEMORIES OF MEXICO.
THE POOLS OF ELLENDEEN.
A WATERSPOUT IN THE INDIAN OCEAN.
MAURICE TIERNAY,THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SENSITIVE SPIRIT.
ESCAPE FROM A MEXICAN QUICKSAND.
THE BEAR-STEAK.
WEOVIL BISCUIT MANUFACTORY.
MEMS FOR MUSICAL MISSES.
POULAILLER, THE ROBBER.
SCIENTIFIC FANTASIES.
THE HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THOS. MORE.
WORDSWORTH, BYRON, SCOTT, AND SHELLEY.
THE LAST DAYS OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER.
AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF JOHN RAYNER.
JOYS AND PERILS OF LUMBERING.
THE HIGHEST HOUSE IN WATHENDALE.
SHOTS IN THE JUNGLE.
A VISIT TO ROBINSON CRUSOE.
THE WHITE SILK BONNET.
BORED WELLS IN EASTERN MISSISSIPPI.
MY NOVEL, OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE.
Monthly Record of Current Events.
Literary Notices
Editors Drawer.
Fashions for September
II. DAWNING GREATNESS.[Pg 433]
While Napoleon was spending his few months of furlough in Corsica, hedevoted many hours every day to the careful composition, after themanner of Plutarch, of the lives of illustrious Corsicans. Though he hadmade considerable progress in the work, it was lost in the subsequentdisorders of those times. He also established a debating club, composedof the several officers in the army upon the island, to discuss thegreat political questions which were then agitating Europe. Thesesubjects he studied with most intense application. In this club he was afrequent speaker, and obtained much distinction for his argumentativeand oratorical powers. Napoleon, at this time, warmly espoused the causeof popular liberty, though most sternl