The initial letters of the Latin names of the kings of Bonaparte's family form the Latin word Nihil, (nothing;) and this used to be called the genealogical acrostic:

L udovicus.

I osephus.

H ieronymus.

I oachim.

N apoleo.

T.B.


THE SUBTERFUGE.

"I vow, my dear Strephon," said Chloe one day,