aft -characteristic of him. It was his chief amusement during
his last illness to muse over a collection of the cat icatures of himself which had been published during his reign and after his fall. The writer thinks he was so miserable, that he found pleasure only in nursing his sorrow ; but there is another explanation possible. The Emperor, who had lived much with ail ilea, knew that caries- twists, if numerous, rarely fail to catch a man's inner weakness, and was studying the collection to discover the quality in himself which he ought, in the interest of his dynasty, to have suppressed. Unfortunately, his first defects were such as no caricaturist catches. Neither Chem nor Tenuiel could show that Napoleon disliked mental ability, and enjoyed before all indulgences the meditative inertia which the Arabs call kef.
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