LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 499 



rendering of grand old classic words is one of the footprints left by the 

 Barbarians of the north. (I have a volume in Italian, entitled " Le 

 opere di Senofonte tradotte dal Greco," printed at Venice in 1588." In 

 Senofonte we scarcely recognize the Greek general and author, 

 Xenophon. A similar difficulty tlii'oughout the book occurs in 

 "Giro" for Cyr^us.) 3. A volume which has been presented by its 

 author to Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, husband of Miss 

 Patterson, of Philadelj)hia, subsequently (1807-1813) King of West- 

 phalia ; and after the fall of the Emperor, styled Prince de Montfort. 

 It is to him, under this last designation, that the volume referred to 

 was inscribed in the followmg words, appearing on a fly-leaf in the 

 handwriting of the author : " Alia Reale Mfesta di Girolamo N"apo- 

 leone, Principe di Montforte : omaggio di profondo respetto, e di viva 

 gratitudine umilemente offerto dall' Autore." The book itself is. a 

 work, on the Empire of Morocco by a Swede Jacopo Graberg di 

 Hemso. It is in Italian, and was printed at Genoa in 1834. It is 

 dedicated, in the usual style, to Leopold the Second, Grand Duke of 

 Tuscany, Prince Imperial and Arch-Duke of Austria, Prince Royal 

 of Hungary and Bohemia. It contains an admirable map of the 

 Empu-e of Morocco (properly Mogrib-al-Acsa), and .a number of 

 engraved views ; also a valuable index, helping one to understand 

 numerovis Arabic names and expressions. 



Further Napoleonic interest attaches to this book. On its title- 

 page is a stamp, showing that it once belonged to the library of 

 Jerome's son, the Prince Napoleon, who still survives, the husband 

 of a daughter of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. The legend on this 

 stamp is particularly curious. It reads thus : " Bibliothhque du 

 Citoyen, Napoleon Bonaparte." The political liberalism of Prince 

 Napoleon is well-known. He was the enfant terrible of the family 

 during the second Empire, and here he has caused himself to be 

 designated after the affected manner of the R6publique by the simple 

 title of Citoyen. This was perhaps just before the advent to power 

 of his cousin, Louis Napoleon. The following sentences from his pen 

 in. May, 1875 will, at least, show his political consistency : "Heredi- 

 tary succession is really and truly dead in France, de facto as well as 

 dejure. Since Louis XIY. not a king's son has succeeded his father. 

 Napoleon I., who made the mistake of falsifying the true Napoleonic 

 traditions by causing himself to be consecrated Emperor and King 

 by the Pope in 1804, expii-ed on a desert rock 2,000 leagues from the 

 coast of France. Napoleon III., after having dreamed of destroying 



