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...March in 1815 the Emperor returned. He best the Prussians. He marched doggedly toward the English, encamped at Waterloo. There was a sound of revelry by night . . . . The English spurred to the field from their midnight frolic . . . . Napoleon left again. This time for Saint Helena. He never returned. He brooded over the past and wrote his "Memoirs". He died...
...HELENA-Octave Aubry-Lippincott...
According to Caulaincourt, the Empire ended with Ragusa's treachery; what followed were the convulsions of its death-agony. Another addition to the 40,000 books about Napoleon, Author Aubry's St. Helena, also published last week, carries the story of Napoleon's personal decline to its miserable conclusion. An exhaustive record of the Emperor's last six years, St. Helena is a superb piece of composition that remains interesting through its 500 pages. Beginning with Waterloo, it clips along like a good melodrama through Napoleon's flight, his success in winning the friendship...
...room cottage at Longwood, on a bleak plateau on the island, the tragi-comedy of Napoleon's exile worked itself out. He adjusted himself to it more readily than anyone else. He romped with the children, teased the pretty, high-spirited 14-year-old Betsy Balcolme, a St. Helena heiress who played tricks on him, pulled his hair, once almost killed him with one of her pranks. Making a great fuss over his rights, Napoleon outsmarted his jailers almost from habit, played on the sympathies of Europe, started such rumors that presently a large body of troops...
Whereas the latter gains pace by compressing a whole career into ten scenes, Mr. Sherriff's play loses it by stretching a single phase over eleven scenes. St. Helena is one of those plays which seems to gain stature in remembrance, with the sidelights dimmed and the details fused into a moving portrait of a crumbling conqueror, resigned but unrepentant, who clings to his destiny and keeps his iron soul to himself...