| Show A BONAPARTE AMONG US there la is at present a distinguished visitor in this city whose name dame alone is reminiscent ot of the rise anil and fall i f natili f the changing of boun boud ary lines between them plots and cou chuc templates ter plates with empe emperors cors kings king popes and princes as the actors and statecraft made a game or of chess with the nations of if europe as the squares and those who sat in authority tits an the pieces piece it to is roland napoleon bonaparte a grandson i if lucien bonaparte he who was once offered the thrones cf spain add italy on condition that he bucieri Ju cieri would divorce his wife who was disliked by the ruler but the grandfather gran grand ather dather of our visitor was not the ficker in wives that his brother wal wac he married because his regard anu and affections led him that way not dot an am a measure ut of d diplomacy or a political maneuver and this was not the only respect iu in which he differed from his brother for he be was a republican while the latter was a dictator and a more or lose lees restrained in accordance cor dance with we degrie e of success which his bis schemes met with the aary 0 of the Bona Boia partes is a romance the like ot 01 which the world never knew before or after stormy ald placid militant and peaceful aggressive gres sive and yie yielding luing progressive and reactionary victorious and vanquished qui shed white winged ana an blood stained all of these at different times and several of them together at other times but neither long were the ot of the house irom from ane time of napoleon Nopoleon 19 B first triumph to the death or the pallice imp nal in a A foreign land it lo la a chapter in tile the history of old eart earth b which however frequently it may be read never be cornea comes tiresome because there to ig al ways appearing from the pages sonie some new incident or some borne different light la Is shed upon something previously known and it all reads so much like the unreal like the skillful product ot of an author whose range of fancy and power of delineation are unbounded that we are Insen ins ensil alk ly fadz jax cin ted led and our attention is involuntary ily given while no longer a to conjure with it has baa lost joet little of its mystic potency in the domain of literature and history bi etory our visitor resembles rey enables the ane bonaparte Bonapart ea greatly in IB facial appearance but not much otherwise being a very large larae man and addicted to the field of letter letten in which he has made quite a repute deputa tion we bid him welcome |
