28 JANUARY 1871, Page 23

CURRENT LITERATURE.

We are happy to see that Mr. Buchanan's Napoleon Fallen (Strahan) 'has already reached a second edition, and that he has added a supplement to it in the shape of an unquestionably fine war song,—written in parts,— France entreating aid from England, and England expressing her bitter feeling at the moral degeneracy which prevents her from affording it. Mr. Buchanan takes in his preface more notice than he need of foolish • critics, who had represented him as casting mud at a fallen man. If the actual Louis Napoleon is not like Mr. Buchanan's picture, it is, we are persuaded, not from rising above his conception, but from falling below it.