Show New Light Shed j f Upon Life of Great Leader The Manuscript of St. St Helena HeI Hel en-a. en ena Is Interesting S. S Document The life of ot Napoleon Bonaparte Itt f not a new subject In the world of ot books Both friends and foes hava haye written about him until it would seem that the subject is Js well nigh exhausted Nevertheless there i la is much that is new to American r read readers ad ers ens to be found in a book entitled The Manuscript of ot St. St Helena purporting to be Napoleons Napoleon's owr story wn Willard As explained Parker aled by the translator translator- president of the Bacon Society of America the contents contents contents con- con tents have long ong been lost Jost to view vie V f and never Vera ne have ave been widely widely- dis- dis h fn The manuscript itself has a thrilling story being a part of a a. a. a collection left in storage in 1907 hf After Arter hands f fifteen of i. i years it U came into the tha Mrs Catherine Harkins Meyer n The life of Napoleon Bonaparte Bonaparta wi has been written scores of times by many pens pens hostile hostile friendly and neutral but until now the reader ot of En English has never had an opportunity to read of the hopes and fears the successes and failures the Joys jOS and sorrows yes sorrows yes even the errors error of the great CorsIcan as portrayed by himself Heretofore the reader has been able to see only what Na did as viewed by the eyes of ot the outside world Now after all these years we have the story of why he did It In such fashion the translator presents pre pre- cents this remarkable narrative U e here first given in English and I which from many evidences seems indubitably to be an actual autobiographical auto auto- I biographical sketch by the great Napoleon himself The history of or the manuscript reads like a ro ro- ro mance It is dated 1817 three years after Napoleons Napoleon's banishment and f four years before his death In 1817 editions of The Manuscript of or St. St Helena appeared in France and England England both both In French Now af after atter at- at ter more than one hundred years ears the manuscript has turned up In America and the translation pre pre- pared As to the actual authorship by Napoleon many evidences confirm confirm con con- con con- I firm belief in It For one thing he mentions the manuscript In his will and disavows it for it-for I for obvious reasons rea rca sons eons as Mr Parker points out The Th Interest of the narrative is certainly certain certain- ly Iy unflagging for tor the reader and every pagel page of of It bears the stamp of the personality of Napoleon Napoleon D. D I Appleton Co New York A C J f |