e on that of
common honesty.... So many pernicious faults were not committed by
Xerxes or Darius, whom ancient historians call feeble princes, as were
committed by Napoleon, whom the modern do not call feeble, because he
felt nothing for others, coerced pertinaciously, promised rashly, gave
indiscriminately, looked tranquilly, and spoke mysteriously. Even in
his flight, signalized by nothing but despondency, Segur, his
panegyrist, hath clearly shown that, had he retained any presence of
mind, any sympathy, or any shame, he might have checked and crippled
his adversary. One glory he shares with Trajan and with Pericles, and
neither time nor malice can diminish it. He raised up and rewarded all
kinds of merit, even in those arts to which he was a stranger. In this
indeed he is more remarkable, perhaps more admirable, than Pericles
himself, for Pericles was a stranger to none of them.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 20: Hofer had led the Tyrolese insurrection against
Napoleon's government in 1809, gaining victories at Sterzing,
Innsbruck and Isel. He became the head of the government of the Tyrol
which for two months maintained her freedom.]

CHARLES LAMB

Born in The Temple, London, 1775, died in 1834; his father
the clerk of a bencher in the Inner Temple; entered Christ
Hospital in 1782, where he met Coleridge and remained seven
years; became a clerk in the South Sea House in 1789, and in
the India House in 1792; his sister, Mary Lamb, in a fit of
temporary insanity, killed their mother in 1796, Charles
becoming her guardian for the remainder of her life; began
to publish verse in 1796; published "Rosamond Gray" in 1798,
a two-act farce produced at Drury Lane in 1805, "Tales from
Shakespeare," in which his sister shared the labor with him,
in 1807; and essays in various magazines, first collected in
1823 as the "Essays of Elia"; went abroad with his sister in
1822; retired from the India House with a pension of L441 in
1825; published the "Last Essays of Elia" in 1833.

I

DREAM-CHILDREN--A REVERIE[21]

Children love to listen to stories about their elders, when _they_
were children; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a
traditionary great-uncle, or grandame, whom they never saw. It was in
this spirit that my little ones crept about me the other evening to
hear about their great-grandmother Field, who lived in a great hou