AUTHOR OF “THE HISTORY OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE,” “THE FRENCH REVOLUTION,” “NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA,” ETC. It is not surprising that many persons, not familiar with the wild and wondrous events of the past, should judge that many of the honest narratives of history must be fictions--mere romances. But it is difficult for the imagination to invent scenes more wonderful than can be found in the annals of by-gone days. The novelist who should create such a character as that of Frederick William, or such a career as that of Frederick the Great, would be deemed guilty of great exaggeration, and yet the facts contained in this volume are beyond all contradiction.…
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