New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-10

OMeara peeYSud n ~ ~ When we do not believe in
him. Ia turning over the leaves of this book GI'eI
meet SS said Sf me eT the better like it According to
NV own conviction Napoleon never Rne "a gerry
and still more never diyined me- Inc orId Who
s s.oIt Sssnsad the buman race He had stranRs
antitnde for discovering the weak ndes Oh sn' He
al passions are weak sides OF p'ons and great
| weakuesses; he judged the most opposIGe calm
In men bv these defects In me be be founded
ness Inn,ation on passions Hence he denied the
existence In me Of every quality nasyn Itself /
pure reason cfisO ;nTounsry laughed in NapoleOn,s
nresence when remarked that he ne t Re-
Therefore knew Napoleon ros %1fe study suffice to
Know man. especially man whose nature anu aUr
tions are all externalthat is: for cal S awe
Is not led dstsy 4y an rysadng oMears book
| God IN 6eayeni how the poor devil has been I'M
nosed upon The account OF the agreement 1870 aIt
| &anoleon and the Emperor Francis about we nIEnC
from Eliza good me ~ too were i SS1sTs
to Napoleon; he has often tried to make me peieue
let him FIX tn ae naa TSeD he looked
| ut me- smiled and said as he turned away, " Son0
| bugie per i Parigini.n What book l could write
written down all the nonsense | had heard in the
day. see, too that Napoleon was mnch gT,eVeo 70
lose his Sianor Dottore. What good stuff for
romance writerl
All may be said in two words: Napoleon was
very small man of imposing character. lie was
ignorant, as subentenant generally is; a remark
able instinct supplied the place OF knowledge FROM
his mean Opinion of men he never had any anxiety
lest he should go wrong. DE ventured everything
and gained thereby immense step toward success
Throwing himself upon prodlglonS arena, ne
amazed the world and made himself mastor of it:
while others cannot get so far as being masters OF
their own hearth. Then he went on and on until he
broke his neck. He ended as he must nave endeu;
and was judged all those are judged VINO ma
means to subdue the common herd AS IeRitlmste
ruler of small state ne would never nave Degn
heard of except as an arbitrary monarch AS mil
tary commander in any country Whatever as an az
miDistrator wherever the storm OF revolution Tagea
he would always have come out StroTe Syaved the
part he did play, and which man of better primer
| pies could have ventured to undertake.
The views and recollections of Madame de Stael
| arc slight but amusing:
"Ies dix apnees d'exil is full of thought, very
fanciful but intolerable in STYLE like all that this
remarkable woman writes. All the portraits, WIN
| the exception of Bernadottes, bear the stamp OF
! truth and genius. Madame de Stael resembles all
partlsans gifted with maginatIon she loves cause
but not its consequences As often as she enters Tue
| field of politics or government, or touches On anI
| mans deeds, she is like person who asserts tha5
there is nothing more wholesome than arsenic, ana
who yet gives in page OF her book most SIever
and exact descriptions OF the pnspeSkaole SuieIIus
the agony before the approaching death. Win such
| O one it is difficult to argue.
| Napoleon has often spoken TO me OF her. She did,
| indeed once beg me to obtain for her the permits
sion she 40 specially desired-namelY to perorae III
| the salons of Paris. My head, however, does NOT
seem TO be easily turned, for was aDle 10 Wltnstahu
~" The story of her Journey through Vienna in 1912
! Is worth mentioning, Herr Rocca. who accompanied
/ her. was cited TO appear as deserter from the
French Army and threatened with eXtradltlon
Madame de Stae was displeased because they barely
promised her that Herr Rocca should not be given
Vienna salons The man to whom she uttered her
| complaints Police-PTesdent Ha2er) was the best
of men but certainly very dry When she begged him
| 70 R0cCA.
! Madam, are we TO go 10 war about Herr Rocca ~
| 10 which Madame de Stael answered, " why not
Herr Rocca 10 my friend, and will be my husband"
An example this of how little use mere esprit is IN
this world. Talleyrand rightly says, LtSpTft Sert
tout CT nc meme rieR." Celebrity was power TO
Madame de Stael. The longer i've, INC HoIo
mIstrust this power.
During the Congress of Laybach, in 1921 Meter
Mich was harassed by the Whms and differences of
the Italian Dukes and Ambassadors, and wrote in
dismay:
lam in the strangest position have ever been In.
I have on hand an extingushed revolution and two
revolutions in full blaze; monarch who will not
STIR and another who will go forward with double
strides. The first wi, not leave Florence unless
90 there and will only follow me; may write to
him ever SO much, write to him through the two
Emperors. let him be personally e1treated by our
no answer but "Send Metternich to me.p The other
rnshcs like mailman at death and the devil listens
neithelt1 EmperorS DC' Inv" saHd
me Metternich." But meantime cannst get away
from here. can neither get the one to go nor the
other to stay. Tho Emperors are wroth and cross
myself. This Is certain. Enemies are much the
most easy to manage; you run straight at them and
make away with them; but trendsl
The following are detached passages that throw
light on Metternich's habits of work and thought:
write in TIVE hours what my copyist can hardly
prepare in five hence 1t happens that my writing
as well as my style suffers from the necessary haste
Nine times ont Of ten | am quite ashamed when .l
read 1t over again. Alieri asserted that 10 write
really well man should copy the manuscript Tour
or five times before it goes TO the printers then the
printed copy should be laid aside for some months,
and then two days devoted to the correction of each
| proof Sheet What would become OF the world II
| this process was imposed on us IN the Offices
hlfer forgot to add that people should only write
when they feel intellectually moved to do so. With
us poor people the contrary is unhappliy, always
the case. generally write tne most Wnen nave
puts me in this batter1ng moral position 30 easily
| as long, often senseless, strife of words
| The History of Cromwell" by VIllemain, has APP
ueared in Paris; good beck which the author has
| lung into world haunted everywhere by Crom-
| we'll. Political Madness religious madness is seen
in all classes of society and in the army usurpation
democracy despOtism, or weakness in the Govern
mept low state of feeling in men; brilliant sur
faces and decaying bodies: lastly, general relaxa
| tion-these are always the first symptoms at all
times and in all places of the return TO order. The
dead speak more but their sons return ever and
their 6sV cs the G 10
discovery OF old errors the name OF the society
of Man. ,
| begin TO KNOW tne WOru Well anu DoleFo tnaC
the flies are only eaten up by tho spiders because
they die naturally so young that they have no time
| to gain experience and do not know what 70 the
nature of the spiders web. My axiom is all the
more correct because it is impartial for the real
spiders interest me. very often watch them, they
| are the best barometers, and, their ugness apart,
they are quite dear little animals always busy al
| ranging their dwellings in the neatest manner.
| Hurrah for good dplomacyp you exclaimed the
other day. hope there is nothing bad in the diplO-
matte position have chosen. Never has anything
troubled me less than NesselrOdes l-bumOr. know
my man. and of all men living fear him the least.
| Your opinion of Pozzo was mine years ago. Some
thing in my nature makes me follow a certain kind
| of man as hounds track game. AS soon as sniff
them they double and make all approach impossible.
Such men are more or less adventures, as Pozzo.
! Capo dIstria, Armfcdt, dAntraigues, ETC. Without