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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 5, Issue 267, 19 May 1865, Page 3

Napoleon’s Life of C.esak. —To show how fine a hing it is to be an emperor and an author, let us state that Napolen the Third—with a view to carefully learning the military practice of the Romans at the time of Carnr, and in order to make his forthcoming history of J ulius as perfect as study under favorable circumstances will permit—caused an able and learned officer of artillery to ascertain the military costume, tho arms, armor, accoutrementa, trappings and other warlike instruments —including thoseproper for siege service, the camp and the field, and to reconstruct the same in the most peifect manner that care and boundless wealth ifllowed. At the Tuilenes has been formed a museum of such articles, derived from ancient sculptures, descriptions, auddrawings on pottery, &o.; there appear the tents, waggons, standards, haversacks, straps, boats, bridge machinery, shovels, the balista, falarica, catapult, bow and arrow. Each has been carefully reproduced and fitted for use, so that when the author desired to see a tribune, centurion, decurion, or private soldier exactly as Caesar saw him, all that needed to bo done was to call a Cent-Grarde and clothe him from the museum. The ghost of Cassar himself might be invoked with even less of fear than Brutus had, and the “ Ay, at Philippi,” «f the umuatchable spirit have no terror for his successor.—Athenmim. Something like love! —“Amelia, for thee—yes, at thy command—Td tear this eternal firmament in a thousand fragments ; I’d gather the stars, one by one, as they tumble from the regions of ethereal tp ice, and put them in my treusers pocket; I’d pluck, the sun, that oriental god of day, that traverses tho blue arch of heaven in such majestic splendour—l’d tear him from the sky, and quench his bright effulgence in the fountain of my eternal love lor thee! Lend me five shillings, dearest! ”