12 DECEMBER 1914, Page 15

NAPOLEON AND THE KAISER.

[To TER EDITOR 01 IRS "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Perhaps you may consider the following extract from Lockhart's Life of Napoleon of interest. The characteristics of Napoleon the Great seem reproduced in Napoleon the Little:— "He began to believe that there was something superhuman in his own faculties, and that he was privileged to deny that any laws were made for him. Obligations by which he expected all besides to be fettered, he considered himself entitled to snap and trample. He became a deity to himself; and expected mankind not merely to submit to, but to admire and reverence, the actions of a demon. Pride and vanity were strangely mingled in his composition."