We have all been reminded lately of the manner in which his return from Elba was announced in the _Moniteur_. It will bear repetition here:--"1st announcement--The demon has escaped from banishment: he has run away from Elba. 2d--The Corsican dragon has landed at Cape Juan. 3d.--The tiger has shown himself at Gap--the troops are advancing from all sides, in order to arrest his progress--he cannot possibly escape. 4th--The monster has really advanced as far as Grenoble--we know not to what treachery to ascribe it. 5th--The tyrant is actually at Lyons. Fear and terror seized all at his appearance. 6th--The usurper has ventured to approach the capital to within sixty hours' march. 7th--Buonaparte is advancing by forced marches--but it is impossible he should reach Paris. 8th--Napoleon will reach under the walls of Paris to-morrow. 9th--The Emperor is at Fontainbleau. 10th--Yesterday evening his Majesty the Emperor made his public entry, and arrived at the palace of the Tuileries--nothing can exceed the universal joy!" What would be his reception now, were he--as he escaped so strangely from Elba, and worked his way still more strangely from under the willow of St. Helena--were he to _wake_ where he is! The people cried VIVE _l'Empereur_ as the coffin that held him was borne by. And truly the Emperor yet _lives_ in France! [As for me, who have skeletonised him prematurely, paring down the Prodigy even to his hat and boots, I have but "carried out" a principle adopted almost in my boyhood, for I can scarcely remember the time when I did not take some patriotic pleasure in persecuting the great Enemy of England. Had he been less than that, I should have felt compunction for my cruelties; having tracked him through snow and through fire, by flood and by field, insulting, degrading, and deriding him everywhere, and putting him to several humiliating deaths. All that time, however, he went on "overing" the Pyramids and the Alps, as boys "over" posts, and playing at leap-frog with the sovereigns of Europe, so as to kick a crown off at every spring he made--together with many crowns and sovereigns into my coffers. Deep, most deep, in a personal view of matters, are my obligations to the Agitator--but what a Debt the country _owes to him!_] [Illustration] PHOTOGRAPHIC PHENOMENA, OR THE NEW SCHOOL OF PORTRAIT-PAINTING. "Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur!"--HENRY IV. "My lords, be seated."--_Speech from the Throne._ I.--INVITATION TO SIT.