3 DECEMBER 1898, Page 28

Face to Face with Napoleon. By 0. V. Caine. (J.

Nisbet and Co.)—This is a really excellent story, well furnished both with well-drawn characters and striking incident. Such, indeed, is the abundance of material that the matter would have sufficed for two books of adventure. The tale belongs to the later days of Napoleon, and a whole crowd of interesting personages appears on the scene. We have, for instance, Bernadotte, then Crown Prince of Sweden, Blucher, and the great Emperor himself. The drama finds its completion in Leipsic, the " Battle of the Nations."