The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-17
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deal respectively 9Th IN" Consulate
0gd 9th France I rdrf Tho Einp'f~' ara
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" modern history IN tho hiverHlty ~
Nancy Tho chapters which treat ~ The
~Pa6ineatiot ~ tufotr In i5ga and iS7'
and ~ tho Relation ~ France 10 h"f THb-
utar,ea In ispi-oa- are ~ " Anton Oull.
land, pfoirsart ~ history IN the Federal
poiyseohnio school ~ Zurich There Ia .
study N The codes which trar 'hs name
II. Napoleon, by Mr. " 4 H. Fisher. fellow
And tutor NJ Nrv COLLEGE. Offord, VIM
also contributes an accoua' NJ The French
beprudencies and Switzerland In isoo-it,'
toeetbpr with chapters on Tho First Rsato-
rntIon, isil-Ib," and on tho captivity 81
Napoleon In ~. Helena. The 'C~oncordats'
are diacrsand by Mr., l.. u. Wickham-Isgg,
lectirer In history At New College, Oxford.
and the outcome ~ aThe Third Coalition Ia
40 forth in two chapters by Col, z. ".
Lloyd, lately ~ the Royal Engineers. To
Mr.. J. Holland Rose the author OF the waltz
able history Of The Revolutionary and
Napoisonic Fra " We are indebted for chap
tars on The Napoleonio Empire at lie
height, iso7-Oo,- and on The Continental
System, isoe-il"; while TO the equally we'll
known Prof. Oman we owe brief narratives
Of sThe P%eninsular War, lS0s-i4' and OF
THE Hundred Days, 1873 The two chap
tars on THE Congress Of Vienna are by Mr.,
A. W. Ward, master Of Peterhouse College,
Cambridge. For a study OF The War Of
1907 the editors lave had recourse 10
August Keim. Major-General (retired) In
the German army: for a record Of The War
OF 1lDeTaIlOu, lblo-lt, 10 IT. ouitu "
Pdugk-Harttung, formerly professor Of
history in the University Of Basel, and for a
description Of Russia Under Alexander I.
and tho Invasion Of 1872 to Eugen Stschep-
kin, professor of universal history in the
Imperial University Of Odessa. There are
also chapters on The Armed Neutrality,
17so, 1901 en- sThe Command Of the Sea,
lso3-i5"; on Great Britain and Ireland,
I7e7-lsl5.' and on The British Empire,
I7ss-lsl5'; bus with these such readers as
are chiefly interested in Napoleon are less
directly concerned.
We may say at once that the method con-
ceived by Lord Acton has ampler %justifi-
cation in the book now under our eye than
in some OF the preceding volumes Of the
series. 1t would have been scarcely prac-
ticable, even for a mind so comprehensive
as was Tsine's, to grasp n expound in
detail the multitude of themes embraced
under the collective title Of the Napoleonio
Era. There is, to be sure, a kind OF unity
in the quarter OF a century here depicted.
No other period in modern, or, for that
matter, ancient history-except that Of
Alexander the Great. or that Of Julius
Cesar, or that Of Charlemagne-was so
dominated by a single person
atty. In ON respects. no doubt, the ages
of Charles ". and Of Louis XIV. may be
compared with that Of Napoleon, but in
neither of them was the personal influence
Of the soverei7 n so o~verpowering: in neither
was the supremacy Of the State or group
of States under his immediate control 80
extensive or so decided. 1t is further
pointed out by the editors of THE Cam
bridge Modern History" in a preface,
that the ascendency Of Charles V. was
mainly due TO the agglom Grafton Of vast
and opulent territories in the hand Of a
monarch to whom they had passed by
hereditary descent; while tina Of Louis
XIV. was rather the work of predecessors !
and ~subordinates than his own. Napoleon, |
the contrary, was not only the architect
of his own fortunes, but the prime creator
that o power with which he
overawed Europe. Nor is this all. II it
true that the personalities Of Alexander, |
Cesar and Charlemagne may be said to
have dominated their respective epochs,
a did the personality Of Napoleon, it must
at the same time be admitted that the areas
over which they bore sway were not com
with the superficies affected directly
or Indirectly by Napoleon's power. 1t is
rs tne e1itOTS Teininu uS, tIat ueSfT
before had the whole of Europe, from
the Urals TO the Atlantic, from Archbngnl {
to Cape Matapan, been knit together in one
vast partnership of strife or subsection: !
before had the fortunes OF all the
Of the West depended on the fate
Of one man. Nor was Europe alone con-
in the success or failure Of his far
ambition; vast regions in Asia,
Africa and America were drawn into the
to which it gave rise. II it has
been reserved for statesmen OF our own
time to speak with truth OF Wet-PoKtk;
in the latter days Of the nineteenth GEN.
the whole world for the first time felt
The mutual action and reaction Of all en-
political forces, the opening years
Of that century witnessed a marked advance
such a contamination, and that
advance was in the main the work of
:, What, according to Prof. Pariset. were
he results Of the Consulate, which, as we
znow, was succeeded by the Empire the lat
or regime having been approved by the
Council Of State on May 10. 1901, sanctioned
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