syarousoN Axo Hie Wowen Fanexpe." By Gertrude" Aretz.. Translated from the German. by Baden and Gedar "Paul. London, Allen and Unwin, "Price, 16/
If, as for allegorical purposes Robert Southey once pretended to believe, there is in the Elysian Celestial Press which keeps th the productions of our current literature, the soul of Napoleon must be filled with a ively gratitude towards Frau Ger-trade Aretz. For except that volume of rather undiscriminating eulogy, M, Arthur-Lévy's "Napoleon Intime," there is no book recently Published which presents the great) conqueror in so amiable a light as hers, There is no sort of success which so irresistibly to women as ry, and Napoleon was a subduer of hearts as well as of Kingdoms. Of the mere amours de package with whose record the bulk of Frau Avetz's pages are occupied little need be said; they have small interest beyond that imparted to them by Napoleon's unique position, The really interesting aspects of his sexual life are, first, his views re~ garding women in general; second, the fashion in which he reached towards the three feminine individualiwith whom he had abiding view of woman was wtal—which does not at all mean that it was in all respects a low or derogatory one, For him women had two functions to which all others were subsidiary, the amorous and the maternal. The young woman was the most delightful of toys; the mature woman was. a mother of men of a neglible quantity, When Mme, de Stod, fishing for compliments, asked him the type of woman he most admired, hho replied: "She who has borne most children." His detestation of the gifted woman just mentioned was provoked by the fact that she. represented all that he most. abhorred
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