Napoleon in his own defence; being a reprint of certain letters written by Napoleon from St. Helena to Lady Clavering, and a reply by Theodore Hook; with which are incorporated notes and an essay on Napoleon as a man of letters (1910) By Clement Shorter
 
Clement Shorter was a self-made man who led a successful career in journalism. Indeed he not only founded The Tatler in 1901 but was also editor of various publications, including the Illustrated London News and the English Illustrated Magazine. He was also founder editor of The Sphere, a publication to which he contributed frequent articles amongst other figures on Napoleon.
 
 Napoleon in his own defence was published in 1910 as a companion to his earlier Napoleon and his fellow-travellers, (1908) Cassel (London) which included most notably William Warden's text on Napoleon on St Helena (1817), read and described by Napoleon himself. Shorter's own words (Napoleon in his own defence, pp. x and xi) on Napoleon reveal his programme (if such it was) in publishing the two books and articles, namely: “Granted that Napoleon was at heart a thorough despot, whose point of view would now be intolerable, we may still be content to survey the permanent work he did on behalf of liberal ideals, and to contrast him with the Alexanders and Ferdinands, the George the Fourths and Louis the Eighteenths who afflicted the European peoples after his destruction.” His opening essay is thus very much in defence of Napoleon. 
 
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