The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-17

Compression was ever exhibited by a young
pnan in the world than by Napoleon Bona
Eparte brooding over his books in his hum
Die apartments at Valence.
II The ambition of the young officer now
shot out in several directions. Deeply i'm
Ipressed with the fame and power of the
ABraat authors whose writings Just then
were setting the world ahame, he, too
#Would be an authorl Such was the quality
~ this singular parsonage that he never
Fllstrusted himself in anything. Before the
End OF the eighteenth year he conceived
llmsef able and qualified to write a his
Fory! Corsica should be his theme. He
would write the annals of his native land,
Hand in so philosophical manner as to
place him alongside of the Able Raynall.
lie went so far as to address a letter to
that august parsonage, telling him that
NE himself, though a youth, was already
writer. He begged the historian TO ex-
cuse his audacity. He flattered him by
saying that indulgence, extended to a
neophyte, was a sure mark of genius! He
enclosed to the Able the first two chapters
of his alleged History of Corsica" the
geography only being surpassed by the
neresy of the rhetoric and the massage of
grammarl
We half suspect that the bottom motive
IN this business was not the hope of be-
ing historian but rather the distinction
OF having correspondence with a great
man. However this may be, the aibbe in
dulged Napolean wrote to him, advised
nm TO study further, and then to rewr1te
MS work. Not only did the historical am
nluon have the lieutenant, but the roman
nc also. He took somewhat to novels, and
Tor the first time falling in love, deter
mined to write a novel, At the house of
Madame du ColOmbier, he made the &C
qaintance of her beautiful daughter, and
leu IN love with hereafter the manner of
all young lieutenants. The flame of this
passion presently went out, but traces of
lt are seen in his correspondence until
what time-ceasing to love Madamoiselle
colombier-he turned pessimist, denounced
love as mockery, and in particular as
Inc drawback to human ambition!
In the midst of the fitful CLEANS of this
errauc life may be seen burning the
Goals of that furnace-heat which the
pears have not yet extinguished. The
STUDENT Bonaparte became a pale, living
sreality. He supplied himself with the
works of the leading authors of the age,
ana deVoured them with the rapacity
ol one starving. He made himself famil-
lar with the writings of Voltaire and
Necker. The one he followed through
ne mazes of the new French learning,
ana the other through the intricacies of
Facucal finance. For months together,
Ae might be seen, with book in hand,
lluttering as he read, penciling the mar
elns' approving and condemning the doc
me according to his judgment or within.
tHere never was time in his life when
ne swept within his grasp a greater
Hount Of intellectual products than dur
W the after part of 1856 and the first half
- me following year.
Colncldent with the date of the Lyons
i'eglment La Fere from Valence to
Doeal IN French Flanders, three hundred
'u ninety miles distant. Here Napoleon
-ouhd himself exposed to northern blasts
Nu unfamiliar hardships. In his CORE
pondence he complains bitterly of his
'la ton. He got a fever of both mind
lU body and the effects of it lasted for
.eIdI years. His unhappiness became
Aieme. and he sought by every means
his power to escape from the situation.
would get away or kill himself! Nor
very powerful reasons wanting
wy ne should so elsewhere. The Bona
''7 FAMILY in Corsica had fallen by this
INTO desperate straits. Joseph had
~ AIKEN to build up a wine-trade with
~ out had failed-as he did with most
--ss else Lucien, student at Brienne,
a. doing his best TO get a transfer to
@' "nere he might substitute a priestly
military education. Madame de
1o'4parte, now 81 years of age, was hop
against hope that the government
91'a pay her the petty stipend due for
care of her mulberry orchards, but no
'@,gment was made.
mere came want into the household
Bonaparte. making the condition
n ma 10 FAMILY plausible excuse. sought,
4abg.lll FEBRUARY of 17sS, obtained leave of
'i1e 70 visit Corsica. Thither he went,