MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, Etc 
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NAPOLEON’S LAST CAMPAIGN IN GER- 
MANY. By F. Loraine Petre. Author of “ Napoleon’s 
Campaign in Poland,” “Napoleon’s Conquest of Prussia,” etc. 
With 17 Maps and Plans. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net. 
In the author’s two first histories of Napoleon’s campaigns (1806 and 1807) 
the Emperor is at his greatest as a soldier. The third (1809) showed the 
commencement of the decay of his genius. Now, in 1813, he has seriously declined. 
The military judgment of Napoleon, the general, is constantly fettered by the 
pride and obstinacy of Napoleon, the Emperor. The military principles which 
guided him up to 1807 are frequently abandoned ; he aims at secondary objectives, 
or mere geographical points, instead of solely at the destruction of the enemy’s 
army; he hesitates and fails to grasp the true situation in a way that was never 
known in his earlier campaigns. Yet frequently, as at Bautsen and Dresden, his 
genius shines with all its old brilliance. 
The campaign of 1813 exhibits the breakdown of his over-centralised system 
of command, which left him without subordinates capable of exercising semi- 
independent command over portions of armies which had now grown to dimensions 
approaching those of our own day. 
The autumn campaign is a notable example of the system of interior lines, as 
opposed to that of strategical envelopment. It marks, too, the real downfall ol 
Napoleon’s power, for, after the fearful destruction of 1813, the desperate struggle 
of 1814, glorious though it was, could never have any real probability of success. 
FOOTPRINTS OF FAMOUS AMERICANS IN 
PARIS. By John Joseph Conway, M.A. With 32 Full-page 
Illustrations. With an Introduction by Mrs. John Lane. 
Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net. 
*y* Franklin, Jefferson, Munroe, Tom Paine, La Fayette, Paul Jones, etc., 
etc., the most striking figures of a heroic age, working out in the City of Light 
the great questions for which they stood, are dealt with here. Longfellow the 
poet of the domestic affections ; matchless Margaret Fuller who wrote so well of 
women in the nineteenth century; Whistler master of American artists; Saint- 
Gaudens chief of American sculptors ; Rumford, most picturesque of scientific 
knight-errants and several others get a chapter each for their lives and 
achievements in Paris. A new and absorbing interest is opened up to visitors. 
Their trip to Versailles becomes more pleasurable when they realise what 
Franklyn did at that brilliant court. The Place de la Bastille becomes a sacred 
place to Americans realizing that the principles of the young republic brought 
about the destruction of the vilest old dungeon in the world. The Seine becomes 
silvery to the American conjuring up that bright summer morning when Robert 
Fulton started from the Place de la Concorde in the first steam boat. The Louvre 
takes on a new attraction from the knowledge that it houses the busts of 
Washington and Franklyn and La Fayette by Houdon. The Luxembourg becomes 
a greater temple of art to him who knows that it holds Whistler’s famous portrait 
of his mother. Even the weather-beaten bookstalls by the banks of the Seine 
become beautiful because Hawthorne and his son loitered among them on sunny 
days sixty years ago. The book has a strong literary flavour. Its history is 
enlivened with anecdote. It is profusely illustrated. 
MEMORIES OF JAMES McNEILL 
WHISTLER : The Artist. By Thomas R. Way. Author of 
“The Lithographs of J. M. Whistler,” etc. With numerous 
Illustrations. Demy 4 to. 10s. 6d. net. 
*** This volume contains about forty illustrations, including an unpublished 
etching drawn by Whistler and bitten in by Sir Frank Short, A.R.A., an original 
lithograph sketch, seven lithographs in colour drawn by the Author upon brown 
paper, and many in black and white. The remainder are facsimiles by photo- 
lithography. In most cases the originals are drawings and sketches by Whistler 
which have never been published before, and are closely connected with the 
matter of the book. The text deals with the Author’s memories of nearly twenty 
year’s close association with Whistler, and he endeavours to treat only with the 
man as an artist, and perhaps, especially as a lithographer. 
*Also an Edition de Luxe on hand-made paper, with the etching 
printed from the original plate. Limited to 30 copies. 
'This is Out of Print with the Publisher. 
