The first edition of this translation was published in New York in
1897. Ten years later we purchased the plates and copyright and
brought out an edition in paper covers. The type was small and the
printing unattractive, but the demand for the book continues, and we
now offer a new edition from new plates. The translation is unchanged
except for a few slight verbal corrections, and we are reprinting the
introduction by the translator just as originally written. The events
of sixteen years have in many ways confirmed his forecast, and the
spectacular figure of Theodore Roosevelt now offers a striking
parallel to that of Napoleon the Little.
C. H. K.
March, 1913.