BOOK X.
Mars, seeing the English army thus inactive, hastens to rouse Napoleon, who, conducted by Night and Silence, unexpectedly attacks the Prussians.
The slaughter is immense.

Napoleon kills many whose histories and families are happily particularised.

He slays Herman, the craniologist, who dwelt by the linden-shadowed Elbe, and measured with his eye the skulls of all who walked through the streets of Berlin.

Alas! his own skull is now cleft by the Corsican sword.

Four pupils of the University of Jena advance together to encounter the Emperor; at four blows he destroys them all.