The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-18

bors are at an end he HES himself on
to fine country seat few miles distant
from Baltimore, where fine clothes are
not requisite. Considering these facts.
Mr.. Bonaparte may be considered a
plainly dressed mamie always wears
black-and would be more readily taken
for student, or. perhaps, a clergyman
than one of the most brilliant lawyers
in Baltimore, man of wealth and one
of the most conspicuous reformers of
the land.
He is identified with nearly every edu-
cational, charitable and reforming insti-
tuition in Maryland, has been honored
with the degrees of A. B. and Ii. D.,
from Harvard university. and recently
received the Baetare medal from Notre
Dame university of Indiana. as the most
distinguished Catholic layman who dur
ing the year had rendered the most eff
ficient and laudable service to the Cath
Ollie church.
To the lover of the historical and at the
same time of the beautiful and artistic
a visit to the Napoleon room at the resi-
dence of Mr. Bonaparte in Baltimore is
a treat. In the home of Mr. Bonaparte
one finds himself in a Napoleonic atmos-
phere.
AS one enters the room the eye first
falls upon marble bust of the Emperor
by Henri Frederick Iselin. 1t was. cut
from a marble from plaster cast mod
eled from life in Cairo, Egypt, by Louis
Corbet.
The marble bust was cut in 1859. and
came at that time into the possession of
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, the son of
Jerome Bonaparte, at one time King of
Westphalia and grandfather of the pres
ent Mr.. Bonaparte, and the man who
married Miss Elizabeth Patterson of
Baltimore.
The bust represents Napoleon in the
uniform of a general OF the French re-
public. The pose is natural and grace
full. To one side is another and SMALL
er bust, In which Napoleon appears in the
garb of the first consul.
In another part of the room, side by
side, are the marble busts of Charles
Bonaparte and Letizia Bonaparte, the
father and mother of the Emperor. These
busts are by Canova, and were presented
to Mr.. Bonaparte's mother by James
Bonaparte during his residence at Bor-
dentown.
A portrait of Miss Patterson. grand
mother of Mr.. Bonaparte, painted in
1926, by Mascot. at Geneva, Switzerland,
also attracts attention. In this portrait
Miss Patterson appears much younger
than she was at the time-about 40. There
is also a painting of her by Kinson,
portrait and in another part of the room
a crayon of her by Stewart is triplieate
portrait on one canvas, showing the head
from three different points of view.
To one side is a fine portrait of the
Empress Eugene, and close by number
of beautifully executed miniatures of va
rious members of the Bonaparte family.
A portrait of May, an American artist,
painted about 1863, shows Jerome Bona
parte, father of Mr.. Bonaparte, as cap
tain of carabineers. Another painting
shows him in the West Point cadet uni
form.
There are also many objects of inter
est. One is a breech-loading, double-
barreled fowling piece, given by Mr.. Bo-
naparte's grandfather to Mr.. Bonaparte's
father, in 1854
There is also a pair of holster pistols,
which belonged to the Duke of Bruins
wick, killed at Quatre Bras, two days
prior to the battle of Waterloo. The pis-
| tolls were given to Mr.. Bonaparte's grand
father, who was in command of divi-
/ sion of the French army during the
Waterloo campaign