SPECIAL ARTICLE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19162, 19 November 1927, Page 13

SPECIAL ARTICLE.

L UDWIG'S "NAPOLEON." (rtltt „r ,0. thk »■•••) mT W. PA. CbKSWW*.] Tnd*ic says of his book, 1 KZ to *rii the inner history J»« * n f° What we have all ****■ nTb.it there has I**" * 'filtration of the things.that fftrirf to grasp at the innermost >s a realisfc and a psy " remove the man from and examine him at close which he will replace iidoinorcrover€nceth n; % The gam has been immense. Of f'Jr greatest leaders which the *j?. Hanni- *° n !Lr and Napoleon-titans who H.CW*? a on e is almost lost in the **ds£ a golden, fabulous figure, "*£Tto earth, two have sober classic tombs but the **Lu {. our very own; not a fact need escape us. We cannot £JtT»nch until the truth emerges. Stall truth only time car. disclose 5« rf this man's tremendous stride ■ »tw future; we cannot know Mr it reaches until that future has IzZ the oast. Perhaps only a cmrS.th»t is different from ours will effect of his genius. As of this earth that wiT» planets to their appointed SL » it is the revolutions of time JEW will bring Napoleon's star to Ludwig's book makes it clear uTfir this man was not a man at Tbot a mighty incarnation of the world, in a word, revolt; the «nK of energy and genius against Swrr and privilege. At Toulon and «2t «d Paris he is the voice of the Mple the man of proclamations; his tongue is in his cheek; b bow that democracy lies half-way Mnen feudalism and tyranny, the tjnMT of genius lie intends to impose, •feople of Italy," he cries, "the army i France comes to break your chains. Jti s friend to all tho peoples. Have oifidMice! Your property, your custau, your religion, shall be respected." fcpxa on to speak to them of Athens, hrU, classical Home. And this to Stray: "Soldiers, like a torrent you fen rushed down from the heights of taurines .. . Milan is yours .. . It are the fiiends of all tk peoples; but, above all, we are fit friends of the offspring of Brutus ni Beipio and the other great men tit are onr models. To re-establish the Capitol, to let up there the statues of tttkeroet, to awaken the lvoraan people ■tick for centuries has been paralysed by aervitnde —that is the fruit of your lietarlea, that will amaze posterity." Dt tie bewildered peoples realise in itae same they are summoned to be ftttt Id the name of heroes who •hM brook no equals! They are sumamdto be the provision of his fame; Kill try of "Follow me!" It is not i au; it it a sign from Heaven. Who « Sod's earth would prefer democracy It tiiif Who would prefer water to tiaif Europe by turns trembles anl aiHt

Attodeat of military genius must not ptoßerr Ludwig's book; there is notjM there about Napoleon's battles. ftraf tiu campaign in Italy we are tall ami about bis correspondence with Jltepiiae thin about his military afftifl His victories are left to take \fO» it themselves; his heart is har••4 Vy doubt. But if his military goiM teedvn little notice, his political fttty character, his fortitude, Mi foreboding, and.his passion, *s Kvttltd is kit conversation, his rewi««r sal Ml letters, are emphasised *7 a netted that keeps all else suborwstete its subject. We were never '"•J *»,%oleon than here, and the &fM fciailation of Herr Ludwig's w Mieh baa recently appeared 25?t * mA t0 alter the orthodox »»tttiewof-IJapoleon, that has held J" "'.» esntory to be a military 8l f.* 1 ? tte eau,6 of a usurper and "Msteatioai of a lunatic; an inspired J"™", a d&pger to the world. Herr «W| aaksi, I will not say short work « «« Tiew, for his book is tremenJ»H u!* oemakea no ca *e at all j* a »PO«oa; but, keeping our eyes on fcwf? **/ tte drama » he P° ints out » £•«»"* *""*' what is P assin £ be " Jwttiagsemerge: Napoleon's design JeL Europe ' ■ United Statos "Bm^ 1 8 !! d *" dec P desire for peace. *«JP«J A League of States under JWttbegemony. Russia is Asia; Eng» r«i| detached, an- island. The Con™«Manit be unified, must consist rff 1 Md Bmall P° wcrs over ' ZiA tho of France, 2 MJWeratieally ranged side by SLi.*TT» * fter Austerlitz, the new jTP* tt * M Bha P e Now, it had 2™ possible to reunite CharleaX.tt*^? 1 ™* 6 * Europe. But ■taanjttiTi. *■ and om P erors ( who ! onvinced )> n ° r (who had gained all by the "■ *W not by persuasion), could •nS Jf. ag *!!? Wfl y of the s P iri t to- £"• »• unification of Europe •atbil'V^" 8 later did he come t0 » Bert ~a!t been « eek ing to achieve *Pekln« I 7 f? ,se mea nß." Says JJJpto Fouche: "I have not yet ;J2*i »y mission, and I mean to end Mat***'®s« i K l «». We need a Euroa European Court of W».iS 8d eouia ge» a common sysW an**' Md measures. The same mt£, Europe. I HkZ. m tae Bati ons into one." a 4 uJf*? ,onnd and splendid dream, *H»ii7° »™ciently acknowledged? i«jJ!*" rc « so false a means as Herr Xm™J* eoain on» of course, with \s£»* s conquerors, would have us "•tSiJI F anj ? hin « worth having by easier means? Was the the neares t approach *«lH£»» OI JL ationß i founded on anvWas the unity of the Vforeei t £-• merica not secured **•*.♦ • case the amount of taa^,"v eopcTed t0 the needs of the nothing less than a mill*U*u«*l4 secure a united *» filtiftir.■ V Pf Htica l freedom which r »P« now enjov not of jealousy and disrupwar! The idea of a F»*awl ha », "teadily increased in *» to »3w , !? le<m ' 8 fa ». but I von'lhSKJ* «««t the attempt to se- ?*.««* b„ I "trigue and arbitraU* will i?i, Bhtenme 8htenmen t and reason *i En»l ~p rove disastrous ero »f«5 *>» P"y then for the J*»|jJ. i,V T - At last the truth will V««| «!? .I**" 8 of things," as > »rj n " b "o«»e forgotten. J** eL P l fe f redt Arc w e so keen material tombs, wherein, A r.i!* nr},, . we we are tr »e aim 0 f Glory. 2* »*e aiSy 0 ? lts own tranquilitv 9*''mE?i hvi win tolcrate non ' e J v fc « a cleansing Sj'wSr «^? t « the true worshi P P I ove < waß Napoleon's indeed, u the nature of