The Birthplace and Childhood of Napoleon. By Howell ap Howell.
(E. Howell, Liverpool.) — The author has brought together a number of interesting particulars, none of them newly discovered, but making an effective total, all the more so because they have been collected, for the most part, in the course of a personal examination of the localities. One upshot of the whole is that Bonaparte was not much of a Frenchman. The author has a high opinion of the Corsican character. Suppress the vendetta entirely—and the French Government by making the kinsfolk of a murderer responsible for him has done much towards this end—and you will have an eminently respectable people,— " serious, taciturn, chaste, consistent," qualities which our author is not willing, it seems, to concede to the Corsican's compatriots on the mainland.
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