HARPER'S
NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
No. XVII.—OCTOBER, 1851.—Vol. III.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Napoleon Bonaparte.
Lima and the Limanians.
Ally Somers.—A Tale of the Coast-Guard.
Misers.
The Cricket.
The Right One.—A Lesson for Lovers.
Lord Brougham as a Judge.
The Household of Sir Thos. More.
Bookworms.
Incidents of Dueling.
Maurice Tiernay, The Soldier of Fortune.
Recollections of Colton, The Author of "Lacon."
Never Despair.
Incident During the Mutiny of 1797.
Woman's Offices and Influence.
The Town-Ho's Story.
My Novel, Or, Varieties in English Life.
The Fortunes of the Reverend Caleb Ellison.
Lamartine on The Restoration.
The Captain's Self-Devotion.
The Eagle and the Swan.
Monthly Record of Current Events.
Editor's Table.
Editor's Drawer.
Editor's Easy Chair.
Literary Notices.
A Leaf from Punch.
Fashions for October.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
BY JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.
III. FIRST CAMPAIGN IN ITALY.
The discomfiture of the insurgent sections at Paris, and the energy,tact, and humanity which Napoleon displayed in the subsequent governmentof the tumultuous city, caused his name to be as familiar as a householdword in all parts of the metropolis. His slight and slender figure, sofeminine and graceful in its proportions; his hand, so small and whiteand soft that any lady might covet it; his features, so mild andyouthful in their expression, and all these combined in strange alliancewith energies as indomitable, and a will as imperious as were everenshrined in mortal form, invested the young general with a mysteriousand almost supernatural fascination.
Famine was rioting in the streets of Paris. All industry was at an end.The poor, unemployed, were perishing. The rich were gathering the wrecksof their estates, and flying from France. There was no law but such aswas proclaimed by the thunders of Napoleon's batteries. The NationalGuard he immediately r