St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-05
WHAT SHALL We READ
Some Interesting Books of
Travel and Many New
Novels.
The Private Life of Napoleon
and Josephine at NAL
maiSOn.
Rev. DR.. Fields Exploration
Of the Southern
States.
M. Zola's Latest Sensational
Work--The Current Mag
aZineS.

OIL WHICH Is lnuICdUeu ny ule cOllStdut III
terest taken in everything relating to
him. Imbert de Saint-Amand, who has
compiled the volume 1.-The Wife of the
First Consul" which has been trans
lated by Thomas Sergeant Perry and is
published by Charles Scribner's Sons,
New York, devotes a chapter to dis
cuSSiOn of the questions whether Ma
poleOn was a great man and whether he
was an intellectual man. The student
of Napoleon's military campaigns finds
| in them an early and affirmative answer
to both questions. The interest in Ma
poleons campaigns and in Napoleon's
character seems to increase with the
lapse of time, and any book which
| throws real light upon either is sure Of
a wide reading in America as we'll as IN
| Europe.
The present volume is mainly por
| trayal of Napoleon'S character. and Of
| the private life of the first consul and
| Josephine. Depending for a consider
able portion of its material upon the
memoirs of Madame de Remusat, of
| Madame Recamier and of his secretary,
BOurrienne, this volume is to some eX-
tent judicial weighing of what has
| been written about Napoleon, while at
the same time it is a Skillful abridg
ment of voluminouS works, and one that
American Readers
will take to readily on account of its
compactness and the liyeliness, and at
times spiciness, of the narrative. The
author has selected for retellinga num-
Der of the best of those anecdotes and
oh, tn II
ings of Napoleon's nature. Such,
for instance. is his remark to Bour-
rienne on the morning of Feb 10,
1900, when he awoke in the LuXem-
bourg: "Well. Bourrienne, here's the
day when we are going to sleep at the
Tuileries. You are very lucky, for you
haven't got to make show Of yourself:
you will go your own way. AS for me,
I've got to go in procession. It's a
great bore but we must make show
and impress the people. The directory
was too simple, and so was not re-
spected. Simplicity was all very well
in the army; but in large city, in a
palace, the head of the government must
attract all eyes in every possible way"
The Napoleon of this volume is the
Napoleon of Malmaison and the LHxem-
bourg, rather than the general and first
consul. During his first years at the Tut
lerieS he occupied the same chamber
ment of Marie Antoinette. and every
evening Napoleon went down
A Little Staircase
to the room below on the ground floor.
Afterwards when something like court
had been formed, both Nine. Recamier
and Nine. de Remusat seem to have
been fattered by the attentions of Ma
poleon, which on one or two occasions
approached the danger line. though it
is certain that they never passed it.
Josephine, who was some years older
than Napoleon, had given him cause for
jealousy during his absence in Egypt,
but the time was approaching When she
could not have made him jealous if she
had had the opportunity, which she had
not. In Paris he was not always loyal
to her. At MalmaiSOn occurred that
curious scene described in the memoirs
of Mime. Junot, and here described at
length. Josephine had gone to Plom-
bieres for her health. Napoleon wrote
her sufficiently loving letters. but
he does not seem to have taken her alb
sence much to heart, for at Malmaison
during this period he made charming
host. Nine. Junot was among the num-
Der of pretty women then at MalmaiSon.
She had been recently married. Her
husband was governor of Paris, and,
being detained there by his duties, left
his wife at Malmaison under the pro-
tecting care of Nine. Louis Bonaparte.
One morning Madame Junot awoke
with a start. and then burst out laugh
ing. Napoleon was standing in her
room. 1t was not5 o'clock. He pushed
an easy chair
Near Her Bed,
and for an hour calmly busted himself
by going through mass of correspond
ence. The clock struck. 1.-THE deuce
Sixoclock. Goodbye, Madame Junot."
and pinching her foot through the bed
clothes, he departed. This remarkable
proceeding being repeated, Madame
Junot instructed her maid not to open
the door when any one knocked, but
Napoleon let himself in with skeleton
key, said few words to her and went off.
Junot arriving OPPORTUNITY on the scene,
his wife begged him TO take her away.
movement which Napoleon did not
oppose. Indeed, he told Josephine aft
erWard not to detain Madame JunOt. A
similar adventure was that of Madame
de Remusat at the camp at Boulogne.
Both women seem to have been little
proud, both Of their adventure and their
virtue.
Pauline Bonaparte, Madame Moreau,
wife of the victor of HOhenlinden.
Queen HortenSe are some of the famous
women, beside those already mentioned,
who pass through these pages. AL
though she gives the title to the book,
the character of Josephine is dWarfed
by the stronger personages who sur
round her.
Rev. DR.. Henry M. Field, in bright
Skies and Dark Shadows" volume of
3l6 pages, published by Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. New York, records his very
favorable impressions OF the South
gathered in trip to Florida. Georgia,
Tennessee and other Southern states
He has good deal to say in common
dation of the Southern heroes, Lee and
jackson. to whose graves he made pill
grimages. He repeats the anecdotes
told him of these Southern soldiers by
persons who knew them. He made
visits to the battlefields, the places of
their triunlphS and defeats, and conSid-
cradle space is devoted to studies of
military campaigns, which are illus
trated with numerous maps. Chancel-
iol SYille, the siege of Knoxville, the
valley campaign, the battle of Frank
lin. are some of the military subjects
treated at length. Dr.. Fields interest,
however, was not confined to the his
toric South. He went to those places
where the new South is showing the
effects of labor and enterprise, and he
looked into the race question. with the
conclusion that here is the great oppor-
tunity of the republic and of Christian
civilization-to raise up an inferior race
to the level of our own.
The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Eel
low" by Jerome X. Jerome. published
by Henry Altemus, 507 and 5l3 Cherry
street, Philadelphia, and received from
the j. B. Lippincott company, remind
the reader of the books of TX Marvel,
which were SO popular generation
ago. These idle thoughts make very
entertaining reading. They are about
being hard up and having the blues,
about getting on in the world, about
shy people, the weather, babies, cats
and dogs, eating and drinking, fur
niShed apartments, dress and deport-