New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-30
Won SYBEL'S LAST VOLUME
HIS TREATISE ON THE ORIGIN OF THE
FRANCO PRUssIAN WAR.
r,,r p,o1-NDINo OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE
Ih6n WfIIIAM / BY Heinrich Won y DeI.

BY MILAN BY sIH5 s1nTiesf YG9 Wh Ge
C cH 4 Co
In this concluding volume is con'priseu Nv"
only the last chapters In the varied parliamentary
s.r,,e,,e now in one capital. now in another
which preceded German unity. bu' ai'o '
..,.,,r history Of the twelve days diplomacy
-. .o,,.h. nm the Franco Prussian War
and made German Imperialism an immediate
.a,,,v lust now when the Spanish-A nerl-
- Ua, has caused all Europe TO revue" ils
,,u,,arv and political equipment. ana IN par
.,,tar has shown that Germany Is Hueh
a,,dad In optpion even 70 the point or pelhs
,.,,+ed nv outsiders with weakness IN us
federal organism, the narrative or the pe"'''
nary quarrel with France In the Winter VI
1864 10 is excessively interesting Won 0yoe'
narrative is 10 a large extent an orlgihsl uo.N
mont II is based more on personal hho"'e"So
and on conversations with men VINO h"e" o"o
,sr.ct or another OF the battle OF WIS ma
-receded the appeal 70 arms thah OH oi"O'
naners II fails. perhaps. TO relieve b'sni'''
wholly from the Satanic repute IN "hlch he wa"
hold by the French but II certainly puts
.,rone color of diabolism on the conouct Vi 'i7
Duke OF Gramont 1t puts the Frussiah N"'
celor In the light not OF wishing 10 eNdue wal
49,, ., wishing 70 fix the responsibility for 1t
:, nuts Napoeon's Foreign Minister in the a'"-
1. .,nart,ng war IN the effort to lay blame
1~,.s,a T, gives to the whole controversy
-. onnearance OF q personal contest between
..s. two men Others were victims. even Ma
,o,oo, himself and Benedict and WERNER 'he
o.ruan Ambassador in Paris and the young
uohenzollern prince who was 50 near peihs
wing NJ Spain and above all, Plus In tle
Pope 40 infallible in dogma and so very iail'o'e
IN notifies One might say that the TWO ne"
were themselves the victims each or MS OWN ue-
vices though In Bismarcks case there was So'iie
dsav o, the kind which only Putarch coulu
describe ,, 49,
Aside from al questions Of high politics 'ie
= o-Prussian drama starts with one OF tnoS7
eating remarks which Bismarck uttered so ire
or.r+lv in his active days. Having occasion 10
Give his opinion Of the Duke OF Gramoh'' Tic
called him blunty 1.-The greatest olocKhedu III
Europe" Granont was then the Arhpassau0'
Of France at Vienna. But by turn IN analIs
he WAS called &c a place in the CABINET "Nio"
NAPOLEON accepted when he allowed hii"9ei4 u"
hs rnade a constitutional monarch. Napoleon
was not then the he had been ne was
already oppressed by complication Of incur
able diseases and his desire was Tor peace an"
res, He did not wish even the labor Of think
practical sign that his estimate OF Gramont was
not very different from that which Bismarck Ut
@erad Von Sybel acknowledges himself in DOUBT
&c IN the motives which led the Emperor to al
,,,t C;ramont 10 his Cabinet in time OF grow
tho h,tterness II the Duke had hated Prussia
before certainly Bismarck's criticism had nov
lessened his resentment for Sadowa ana 'he
affair OF Luxembourg His reply wheh DIS
marck's words were reported TO MIN. Is saiu ~
have been, II will revenge France Cohsluel-
ing diplomacy something like war the APP
no,ntment OF G:amont the same as free
Gift Of interior lines and the privilege OF purely
defensive strategy to Prussia
The historian evidently holds that Napoieoh
was at this moment still the most popular man
N France and that If he had been IN heaIth al
would have been different But now from s'aiA
ohso,ptjsrn France descended suddenly TO some
thing not unlike directorate. The Emperor
could still decide. but he was not in the temper
10 do So The Minister with purpose was the
man likely to guide the nation Under the not
breath OF Gramonrs wrath the friendly feeling
NJ ,he Prime Minister Olivier for Germany dis
anneared. and Napoleon became more undecide1
than ever The very first step Of the new Gov
eminent was one tending to ALLEVIATE both Aus
tra and Italy olivier announced 10 the NaN-
can his accession to power he withheid the
memorial which had been prepared in the name
of France against the interference OF the rope
In the temporal affairs of the Cathohc na'iohs'
and he persisted in defending the states OF the
Church with French troops. These measures
met the views Of Gramont exactly: but Austria
was at that moment strenuously opposing 'he
coming declaration of papal infalhbility While
Italy. as was discovered could not he
moved even bv the French proclivites Of her
Ao11 nIalN for 10
Church While France was in this way uncon-
sciously isolating herself, The North German
Confederation proceeding to bind itself with
bands of steel 10 Switzerland and Italy by
means OF a railway over the ST. GOthard The
project was one which France had refused TO
aid but now that Bismarck took 1t up It's i'm
nortance was magnfed II would relieve Ger
many at once Of dependence on the French and
Austrian lines. The feeling shown over this
matter In the French Chamber was significant.
What was more significant was that Napoleon
now made quiet efforts assure himself OF the
aid Of Austria in case Of war
Won Sybel puts the whole story Of this incl
dent in such a way as 10 give the impression
that the Emperor feared the acts Of his own
Ministers His wish was for peace but he
was keenly alive TO the perils which the excite
ment Of Others preparing for him His
prescience was all the more remarkable, since II
was shown in the midst OF that deceitful calm
which preceded the storm That was time
when the Premier. Olivier rose in the Chamber
70 say Never has peace been more certain than
at present" This with declaration Of war not
two weeks of. and Napoleon almost the only
man in France who saw the danger. Frustrated
by new attack OF the disease which tortured
him The same certainty of peace was felt by
the English Government. always automatically
alert In these circumstances there is positively
no place for the two opposing theories as to the
origin OF the Franco-Prussan Wharf.-The one that
Bismarck after long preparation entrapped