ced the
greatest biographical work which has yet appeared in American
literature. I think that in the main his accomplishment has been equal
to his ambition. It is not an unworthy thing that an _American_
professor, at the seat of an _American_ university, turning his
energies to this great task, has succeeded in making a well-nigh final
record of the life and work of that unequalled organizer, that sublime
dissembler, that cruel reformer, that heartless philanthropist, who,
for half a lifetime, converted old Europe into a mire of murder and
desolation, for the ultimate good of man.

Only one thing may be said in adverse criticism of Professor Sloane's
book, and that is, that his style is too mathematical and too little
imaginative for the subject which he has in hand. His rather cold
precision, however, we concede to him; for it is, no doubt, the
natural method of his expression. We do our part to acknowledge and
welcome the remarkable work which he has produced, and to commend it
to all readers as the best existing and best probable account of the
personal and historical career of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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[Transcriber's Notes: Every effort has been made to replicate this
text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant
spellings and other inconsistencies.

The transcriber made these changes to the text to correct obvious
errors:

1. p. 6 over-capatalized --> over-capitalized
2. p. 18 successfull --> successful
3. p. 23 benovelent --> benevolent
4. p. 60 ecocomists --> economists
5. p. 68 A macron diacritical mark, a straight line above
a letter, is found on the first letter o, in the
word Sosoku. This letter is indicated here by the
coding [=x] for a macron above any letter x.
Thus, for example, the word Sosoku appears as
S[=o]soku in the text.
6. p. 76 staightforward --> straightforward
7. p. 94 abnormalties --> abnormalities
8. p. 124 desparing --> despairing
9. p. 144 stategy --> strategy

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