Napoleon Bonaparte.

One evening last week the members of History 15 were entertained in Dr. Channing's room by an informal. But very interesting lecture on the First Napoleon by Mr. John C. Ropes, and Mr. Cohn of the French department. The former gave a biography of Napoleon, briefly tracing the periods of his life, and naming the best books for each period; the latter stated the opinions with which the different political parties in France at the present day regard Napoleon and his empire. The strength to the old Napoleon's legend is rapidly declining, although twenty or thirty years ago it was still very powerful. So powerful in fact, that when in 1848 Prince Louis Napoleon was nominated for the Presidency of the Republic, the mere magic of his name was sufficient to give him an overwhelming majority. The results of the Franco-German war, however, have greatly dimmed the lustre of the French arms under Napoleon, and many of the present French Republicans are exceedingly bitter towards the First Consul, charging that he took France with the boundaries of the French Revolution, and left it with the boundaries of 1815.