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It is either brutal truth or brutal falsehood-I think it is the former. The author's opponents, whose contradictions and criticisms are given with the text, in the form of foot-notes, attack him furiously. Indeed, this is the only thing possible for a Napoleonist; for Bourrienne's position is the key of the field, and unless it can be carried the battle of Napoleonism is lost. Bourrienne cannot be turned and left in the rear, except at the sacrifice of the whole base of operations. The attack on Bourrienne seems to me to kill him, but to leave his position intact. His enemies show him, with reasonable certainty, to have been corrupt, grasping, deceitful, time-serving and double-faced; false in all his later life to the great friend of his youth and patron of his early manhood. Able? Yes, he must have MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. By L. A. F. de Bourrienne, his private secretary; with Anecdotes and Illustrative Extracts from all the most Authentic Sources. Edited by R. W. Phipps, colonel, late Royal Artillery. New and Revised Edition, with Numerous Illustrations. In four volumes. New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co. been able, to deceive the arch-deceiver, and to steal under the eyes of the arch-thief. All this would be fatally convincing, if it were Bourrienne who is on trial. But it is not Bourrienne, it is one greater than he; greater, perhaps, in single-eyed, selfish power, than any other character in history. It is related that once, in Napoleon's hearing, a lady said that she would have liked Turenne better if he had not burned the Palatinate. "What of that," replied Napoleon, "if it was necessary to the object he had in view?" That ancient Seignory, the very jewel and garden of Europe, Turenne made into a desert place; and its ruins stand to this day, more than 200 years later, a memento of his flaming sword. "What of that?" There is a world of significance in this question. Even Bonaparte's stupendous vigor would have availed little if it had not been for the circumstances to which he was born. He fell upon France as if one should alight from a stray comet on a virgin world whereon the foot of man had never trodden; where the treasures of air and earth and ocean lay open and unclaimed. All powers, clerical, seignoral, and royal, were dead and gone. Every old debt was discharged by statutory repudiation. Every landlord had died or disappeared, and every tenant enjoyed soil and mansion free of rent-charge or control. The law, the church, and the throne were ousted, and the people left without court, king, or god. The ebullition that threw off the incubus was great excessive proportionately with its weight; and the subsequent reaction and supineness were proportionate to the excess. This, too, in a strain of blood not Anglo-Saxon, but Gallic, with a racial tendency to trust, to admire, to adore, and to be led. In America the usurper would have been ridiculed, alive; and have died unwept, unhonored, and unsung. What do we do with "Napoleons" in war, politics, or finance? We sit down on them. The only terms on which we let genius thrive are those of constant avoidance of a suspicion of conscious superiority. Never, in peace or in war, has there been a time and place wherein a man of all Napoleon's ability, or twice as much, could have said aloud, "I will take the reins and drive the chariot," without being laughed down. Any such childish trick as |