The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-01-09
WORKS HE STUDIED.
nam OF LITERATURE THAT IN
II" 7ERESTED NAPOLEON.

yvritine-He Was Partial to His
politics and Geography"
pousseau had been the prophet and
I0 of the new social dispense
lols , Tbe scheme for applying its prin-
uoI os is found in a work which bears
cli'Y nome of very mediocre man, the
Ir,a Ravnal, a man who enjoyed i'll
az A dav an extended and splendid repu-
~. which now appears to have had
"r w. rho slender foundations of unmer'
wy wy persecution and the friendship of
~" men. IT. 1910 appeared over
1 5is name a volume If which he was the
D u, but not the author NPhllo-
VO rhicaI and Political History Of the
Tl+obIjshments and Commerce OF the
T.roroans In the Two Indies is mis-
laIIonv compounded Of extracts from
many sources and Of short essays by
pornaTs brilliant acquaintance on .su-
nor.tition. tyranny and similar themes,
Tba racoted author had written for the
willie PRINTS and had published several
,.1-T
ton The amazing success OF TINS one
mo. nat remarkable if, as the critics
now believe, at least a third OF the book
no. he Oiderot The position of the self
strIed author as a man of letters imme-
diatelv became a foremost one, and such
was the vogue of the work that the au-
thmities finally became alarmed A
dramatic climax to Raynal's renown
was saaured when in 1881 the vol
o,op was condemned to be burned and
the writer fed for safety into exile. The
storm had finally subsidized, he had re-
tnrned to France, and communication
was opened between the great man and
his aspiring reader.
"Not yet Is, are the startling words
in the letter written by Bonaparte, Il
Am writer. 1t is the age when we
must learn. Will my boldness subject
me to your raillery? No; am sure, If
indulgence be mark of true genius,
YOU should have much indulgence,
inclose chapters l and 2 of a his
tory Of Corsica, with an outline of the
rest If yOu approve, | will go on; If
you advise me to stop, | will go no fur
Their. These chapters as they came to
Raynal's hands are not i'll existence, SO
/ far as is known, and pOsterity can never
Judge how monumental their author
assurance was. The abbe's reply was
kindly, but he advised the novice to
complete his researches and then to re,
write his pieces. Bonaparte was not
unwilling to profit by the COunsels he
received Soon after, in July, he gave
i two orders to a Geuevese bookseller, one
for books concerning Corsica, another
for the memoirs of Nine. de Warens and
her servant, Claude Anet, which are
sort of supplement- to Rousseau Con
fessions." The young historians letter
teens with bad spelling and bad gram
mar, but it is saturated with the spirit
I OF his time.
Some of the tagging days were not
y only spent in novel reading, as the en-
5 peror in after years confessed to Nine.
de Remusat but in attempts at novel
writing to relieve the tedium of idle
hours 1t is said that first and last Bo-
naparte read "Werther" five times
~ through. Enough remains among his
81 0oylsh scribblings to show the kind OF
fantastic dreams both of love and OF
Y glory III which he INDUCED. Many en-
certain shrewd suspicion that amid
The gayeties of the winter he lost his
heart, Or thought he did, and was re-
pulsed. At least in his Dialogue on
Love written five years later, he says,
81 |, too, was once in love-" and pro-
ceedS, after a few lines, to decry the
sentiment as harmful to mankind, a
+ something from which God would do
well to emancipate it, There seems to
nave been in the interval no opportuni-
y lor philandering so good as the one
He hsd enjoyed in the drawing rooms OF
niAe de COlombier 1t has at all events
Oeen the good fortune of that excellent
"lu charming woman to secure, by this
opposition, place in history not mere
aS the Influential patroness of Napo-
-0J1' out as the mother of>his first love.
Dut these were his avocations. The
b S"i occupatlOn of his time was study.
1eSIaeS reading again the chief works
nouSS8au and devouring the Able
''ynal, his most beloved author, he
sSV read read much in the works of Voltaire,
iiiIangieri, of Necker and of Adam
min With notebook and pencil he
@"acVed annotated and criticised, his
sIa .u1 alert and every faculty bent to the
u05 apprehension of the subject in
,'uu. 10 the conception of the state as
private corporation, which he had
lO'oed from Rousseau, was now added
convection that the institutions of /
Dco "-iVe We're no longer adapted TO the
ooPauons, beliefs or morals Of her