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by his Grandson, Baron NAPOLEON JOSEPH DE MENEVAL. With Portraits and
Autograph Letters. In three volumes. 8vo. Cloth, $6.00.

"The Baron de Meneval knew Napoleon as few knew him. He was his
confidential secretary and intimate friend.... Students and
historians who wish to form a trustworthy estimate of Napoleon can
not afford to neglect this testimony by one of his most intimate
associates."--_London News._

"These Memoirs, by the private secretary of Napoleon, are a
valuable and important contribution to the history of the
Napoleonic period, and necessarily they throw new and interesting
light on the personality and real sentiments of the emperor. If
Napoleon anywhere took off the mask, it was in the seclusion of
his private cabinet. The Memoirs have been republished almost as
they were written, by Baron de Meneval's grandson, with the
addition of some supplementary documents."--_London Times._

"Meneval has brought the living Napoleon clearly before us in a
portrait, flattering, no doubt, but essentially true to nature;
and he has shown us what the emperor really was--at the head of
his armies, in his Council of State, as the ruler of France, as
the lord of the continent--above all, in the round of his daily
life, and in the circle of family and home."--_London Academy._

"Neither the editor nor translator of Meneval's Memoirs has
miscalculated his deep interest--an interest which does not depend
on literary style but on the substance of what is related. Whoever
reads this volume will wait with impatience for the
remainder."--_N. Y. Tribune._

"The work will take rank with the most important of memoirs
relating to the period. Its great value arises largely from its
author's transparent veracity. Meneval was one of those men who
could not consciously tell anything but the truth. He was
constitutionally unfitted for lying.... The book is extremely
interesting, and it is as important as it is interesting."--_N. Y.
Times._

"Few memorists have given us a more minute account of Napoleon....
No lover of Napoleon, no admirer of his wonderful genius, can fail
to read these interesting and important volumes which have been
waited for for years._"--N. Y. World._

"The book will be hailed with delight by the collectors of
Napoleonic literature, as it covers much ground wholly unexplored
by the great majority of the biographers of
Napoleon