THE DRAMA OF SAINT HELENA.
The Drama of Saint Helena. By Paul Fthneaux. Translated by Alfred lieu, B.A., and the Author. (Andrew Melrose. 10s. 6d. net.)—We cannot but think that these discussions about what went on at St. Helena are superfluous. It must be clearly under- stood, to begin with, that we were under no obligations to Napd on. He had pursued us with unrelenting hostility, and had done his very best to destroy our national existence. Ho had been the cause of the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives and of hundreds of millions of money, and at the last, when he would most certainly have been shot or hanged if he had gone anywhere else, he took refuge on board a British man-of-war. Everything in the way of hospitality accorded to him was absolutely a favour and he got more than he deserved. It is all very well for M. Fremeaux to say that "Napoleon is more royal in our eyes than any other King of the time." This was not what his countrymen thought in 1815. Outside the Army he had scarcely a friend.
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