The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-24
THE JUNE MAGAZINES.
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Turner & Co. send us the June number of
THE atlantic, which has the following table
of contents:-"J and his Friend" by
Bayard Taylor" "Drives from French
Farm" "by P. G. Hamerton; civilian Haz-
litt," by Fl. T. Tuckerman; "In june" by
Nora Perry; ''French and English Illustrated
Magazines, "by Eugene Benson; ''Song;""Old-
town Fireside Stories, 1. The Ghost in the
Mill, )" by Harriet Beecher Stoves" 'Let us be
Cheerful" !" by Mrs. E. Lynn Linton 'sMaster
Treadwell," by j. e. Babson; "a Idlers
Idyl," by Hiram Rich; ''The Correspondence
of Napoleon Bonaparte," by James Parton;
''The English Governess at the Siamese
Court, III; ''The Logic of Marriage and
Murder" by Henry James; ''Reviews and
Literary Notices" by John Fiske, Henry
James, t. w. Higginson, j. J. Piatt, and w.
d. Howells.
From Mr.. James Parton's review of ''The
Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte" we
quote as follows
At st. Helena, in conversation with the
companions of his exile, Napoleon designated
the moment when he first felt the STRINGS of
lawless ambition. SIT was not hll after Lodi, /"
he said, ''that was struck with the possibility
of my becoming decided actor on the
scene of political events. Then was
enkindled the first spark of lofty am
bition." Having lively recollection of
this sentence, which we read long ago in Mr..
| Abbotts entertaining volume upon Napoleon
at ST. Helena, we had the curiosity to turn to
the letters written by General Bonaparte at
the time, to see if there was anything in them
to confirm his statement. Yes: Just after
Lodi, for the first time he begins to protest
and swear that his only ambition is to serve
| France in any capacity which the Directory
may be pleased to assign him. Five days
after his troops had given him, at the bridge
of Lodi, that surprising proef of devotion,
he writes to his patron, Carnot, whether
I make war here or elsewhere is Indifferent
to me. To serve my country, to deserve
| from posterity one leaf of our history to
give the Government proofs of my attach
ment and devotion-this is all my ambition" !"
1t is touch worthy of Shakespeare. Thus
| might the great dramatist have indicated the
| birth of an ambition. N.t ....
1t was after Lodi, too, that he showed his
eager promptitude to reward those who
served him, and his tact in adapting the re-
ward to the nature of the case. The battle
of Lodi was won by the column that rushed
| across the bridge in the face of thirty pieces
OF cannon and the fire of infantry. The
General caused printed list of the names
OF the men composing the column to be
posted In every district of France where any
one Of them resided Could any reward
have been more thrilling to the men or
more promotiye of the next conscrip-
ton? At a later day it became a Gus
tom with him to have such lists posted
upon the parish churches of the soldiers
whom he desired to honor But when once
a priest presumed to read the list to his
parishioners in the church, the master wrote
from Vienna to the minister of police to for
bid the repetition of the act; because, said
he, in substance, if priests may announce
victories, they may conament upon them, and
if bad news should arrive, they may comment
E upon that "Priests must be used with civil
lity, but not made too much of.
- s.
The correspondence, reticent as it is con-
cerning whatever tends to exhibit Napoleon
vulnerable, shows plainly enough that it was
Nelson who destroyed him. Nelson hit him
two blows-Nile and Trafalgar. By the battle
of the Nile he penned him in
: Egypt, killed his Indian projects, and
reduced him to absolute paralysis for year
and half. By Trafalgar he again destroyed
the French naval power, made invasion ol
England impossible, and compelled Napoleon
to continue his policy of fighting England
upon the territories of her allies. In othel
words, he penned him in the continent o
Europe. This led TO that prodigious exten
, sion of his operations, until be had vas