had a particular look for every thought that arose in his mind.

Napoleon had beautiful hands, and he was very proud of them; while conversing he would often look at them with an air of self-complacency. He also fancied he had fine teeth, but his pretension to that advantage was not so well founded as his vanity on the score of his hands.

When walking, either alone or in company with any one, in his apartments or in his gardens, he had the habit of stooping a little, and crossing his hands behind his back. He frequently gave an involuntary shrug of his right shoulder, which was accompanied by a movement of his mouth from left to right. This habit was always most remarkable when his mind was absorbed in the consideration of any profound subject. It was often while walking that he dictated his most important notes.

He could endure great fatigue, not only on horseback, but on foot; he would sometimes walk for five or six hours in succession without being aware of it. When walking with any person whom he treated with familiarity, he would link his arm into that of his companion, or lean on it.

As soon as Napoleon arose in the morning, his valet-de-chambre shaved him and dressed his hair, while some person would read to him. He paid little attention to any but the German and English papers. "Pass over all that," he would say of the French "I know it already. They say only what they think will please me." It was often surprising that his valet did not cut him in shaving, for, when

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ever he heard anything interesting, he would turn quickly round towards the reader.

When Napoleon had finished his toilette, which he did with great attention, for he was scrupulously neat in his person, he went down stairs to his cabinet. There he signed the orders on important petitions, which had been analyzed by his secretary on the preceding evening. On reception and parade days he was particularly exact in signing these orders, because he would be likely to see most of the petitioners, and they would ask him for answers. He next perused letters, ranging them according to their importance. He occasionally wrote the answers himself, but not often. He generally took breakfast at ten, the repast being very simple.

Napoleon was exceedingly temperate, and averse to all excess. He knew the absurd stories that were circulated about him, and he was sometimes vexed at them. It has been repeated, over and over again, that he was subject to attacks of epilepsy; but those who have been most intimate with him pronounce it untrue. His health was good and his constitution sound. He generally, in his latter days, slept seven hours out of the twenty-four, besides taking a short nap in the afternoon. Among the private instructions which Napoleon gave his secretary, one was very curious: 'During the night," said he, "enter my chamber as seldom as possible. Do not awake me when you have any good news to communicate; with that there is no hurry. But when you bring bad news, rouse me instantly; for then there is not a moment to be

lost." This was a wise regulation, and Bonaparte found his advantage in it.

Napoleon was seen to less advantage in a drawing room, than at the head of his troops. His military uniform became him much better than the handsomest dress of any other kind. His waistcoats and smallclothes were always of white cassimere. He changed them every morning, and never wore them after they had been washed three or four times. He never wore any but white silk stockings. His shoes, which were very light, and lined with silk, were ornamented with gold buckles of an oval form, either plain or wrought. He also, occasionally, wore gold kneebuckles. During the Empire he was never known to wear pantaloons.

It appears also that he wore no jewels. In his pockets he carried neither purse nor money; but merely his handkerchief, snuff-box, and sweetmeat-box. He usually bore only two decorations,-the cross of the legion of honor, and that of the iron crown. His hat was of an extremely fine and light kind of beaver. The inside was wadded and lined with silk. It was unadorned with either cord, tassel, or feather—its only ornament being a silk loop, fastening a small tri-colored cockade.

Gallantry to woman was by no means a trait in Napoleon's character. He seldom said anything agreeable to females, and he frequently addressed to them the rudest and most extraordinary remarks. To one he would say, "Heavens, how red your elbows are!"-to another, "What an ugly head-dress you have got!" At another time he would say, "Your

dress is none of the cleanest. Do you never change your gown? I have seen you in that twenty times." He showed no mercy to any who displeased him on these points. He often gave Josephine directions about her toilette, and the exquisite taste for which she was distinguished might have rendered him fastidious respecting the costume of other ladies.

After he became emperor, he said one day to the beautiful Duchess de Chevereuse, in the presence of all the circle at the Tuilleries, "Ah; that's droll · enough! your hair is red!" Perhaps it is, sire," replied the lady; "but this is the first time a man ever told me so!"

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While Napoleon was quite young, he conceived an attachment for Mademoiselle du Colombier, who, on her part, was not insensible to his merits. It was the first love of both; and it was that kind of love which might be expected to arise at their age, and with their education. "We were the most innocent creatures imaginable," the used to say. "We contrived little meetings together; I well remember one which took place on midsummer morning, just as daylight began to dawn. It will scarcely be believed that all our happiness consisted in eating cherries together!" When reviewing the second regiment of horse chasseurs, at Lobenstein, two days before the battle of Jena, Napoleon, addressing the colonel, said, "How many men are there here?" "Five hundred," replied the colonel; "but there are many raw troops among them." "What signifies that," said the emperor, in a tone which denoted surprise at the obser

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