No person, young or old, that takes up this book will wish to put it
down before it is finished; and no reader will fail to be profited by
its perusal. We doubt whether in the same space there can anywhere be
found a better summary of the history of that wonderful man, or a
clearer picture of the folly of his extravagant ambition, or the
cruelties it led him to perpetrate, and of the downfall in which it
terminated. False views of the character of warriors and conquerors have
ruined thousands. Need any other fact be stated to show the importance
of giving the young, especially, timely and correct views of these
characters?
If there is one class to whom more than another this book is
particularly commended, it is to that large class of boys, between the
ages of five and fifteen years, who often think, and sometimes say, "I
would like to be a soldier."