19 MAY 1917, Page 17

Napoleon and the Artiste. By Hama Grant. (Grant Richards. 10s.

6d. net.)—Any book about Napoleon is bound to be interesting, more or less, and Mr. Grant's chapters on the great man's dealings with literature, the drama, art, music, journalism, and religion are distinctly readable, even if they leave very much to be said about " the temperamental side of Napoleon," which is the author's avowed subject. He quotes freely, and Napoleonic quotations are always striking. " Napoleon once objected to La Fontaine's famous fable of The Wolf and the Lamb' on the ground that it taught might to be greater than right, and was consequently bad for children. It was immoral, he further held, because the wolf was not choked when he devoured the lamb." We commend that to the Kaiser.