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WORKS HE STUDIED.
TIE KIND OF LITERATURE THAT lN-
 PERSISTED NAPOLEON.

He Fell Under the Influence of Abbe Ray
 Before Writing-He Was Partial to His
 tory, Politics and Geography.
 Rousseau had been the prophet and forerunner of the new social dispensa- tion. Tine scheme for applying it's prin- ciples is found ill 8 work which bears the namo of very mediocre man, the Abbe Raynal, man who enjoyed i'll his day an extended and splendid repu- tation which now appears to have had only tue slender foundations of unmer- ited persecution and the friendship Of superior men h l770 appeared over his nafne d volume of which he was the compiler. but net the author. s'Philo- soplical and Political History of the Establishments and Commerce of the Europeans in the Two Indies'' is g mis- cellany compounded If extracts from many sources and of short essays by Raynal's brilliant acquaintanees on su- perstition, tyranny and similar themes. The reputed author had written for tho public prints and had published several works, none of which attracted atten- tion The amazing sueccss of this ono was not remarkable if, IS the critics now believe, at least z third Of the lock was by Diderot. Tho position of the self styled author a3 8 man of letters imme- diately became q foremost one, and such was the vogue Of the work that the au- thorities finally became almmed. A dramatic climax to Raynals renown was secured when i'll 17SI tho vol ume was condemned to bo burned and the writer fed fer safety into eNile. The storm had finally subsided, he had re- turned to France, and communication was opened between the great man and his aspiring reader.
 Not yet s, arc tho startling words in tho letter written by Boaaparte I am q writer It is tho age when NC must learn. Will my boldness subject me to your raillery? No; am sure. If indulgence be mark of true genius, you should have much indulgence. l inclose chapters l and ? of his tory of Corsica, with an outline of the rest. If you approve, l will go on; if you advise mo te stop l will go no fur ther. These chapters as they camo to Raynal's hands gre not in existence, so far as is known, and postority can never judge how monumental their authors assurance ygas The abbe's reply was kindly, but he advised the novice to complete his researches and then to re- write his pieces Bonaparto WAS neb unwilling to profit by tho eounsels he received. Soon after, in July, he gave two orders toa Geneyese bookseller, ono for books concerning Corsica, another for the memoirs of Mime. de WareHs and her servant, Claude Anet, which are 9 sort of supplement to Rousseau's $ s.Con- fessions , The young historians letter teens with bad spelling and bad gram mar, but 1t is saturated with the spirit of his time
 Some of the tagging days were not only spent in novel reading, as the em- peror i'll after years confessed to Mmo. de Remusat, but i'll attempts at novel writing to relieve the tedium of idle hours. It is said that first and last Bo- naparte read "Werther' five times 
 boyish soribblings to show the kind of fantastic dreams both of love and of glory in which he indulged, Many en- tertain shrewd suspicion that amid the gayeties of the winter he lest his heart, CT thought he did, and was re- pulsed. At least, ill his Dialogue on Love, ' written five years later, he says, "I, too, was once in love, and pro- ceeds after q few lines, to decry the sentiment as harmful to mankind, a something from which God would 60 well to emanoipato it. Thero seems to have been in the interval no apportuni- ty for philandering so good as tho one he had enjoyed il tho drawing rooms of Mme do Colombior. Ithas atall events been the good fortune of that excellent and eharmiRg woman to seeare, by this suppositiou. aplaeo i'll history not mero- ly as tho influential patronoss of Napo. leon, but as tho mother Of his first love-
 Bat theso wero Lis ayocations The real occupation of lis ti:ne was study Besides reading again the chief works of Rousseau and dovouring the Abbo Raynal. his most beloved author, he also read much ia the works of Vol aire, of FilSAslesi. of Naeiser a2d of Adam Smith With notebook and pencil he extracted, annotated and criticised. his mind alert aid every faculty bent to tho clear apprehension of the subject in hand To the conception of the state Us a private corporation, which he had imbibed from Rousseau, wss now added the convict OH that the institutions of France were no longer adapted to the occupations. beliefs CT morals of her people, and that revolution was noces- sity To jHdge from Aamoir presented somo years later b tho Lyons Academy, he mast have ab3orbai the teachings of tho Two lndies' almost entire
 Tho cnnsumipg zeal fer studies on the part of this inoolaprehensible youth is probably unparallolod Having read Plutarch in his childhood, ho now de- vourcd lIerodous S!rabo and Diodorus. Ghina, Arabia and tho Indies Gazzled his imagination, ard what ho could lay hands upon concerning the cast WAS soon assindlated England and Germany next engaged his attention. and toward the close of his studies he became ardent i'll examining tho minntest details of French history. It was moreover, tho science of history and not of literature which peotttipd him - dlv details of