Word: napoleonism
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...Story of Jesus -Emil Ludwig-translated by Eden and Cedar Paul-Boni & Liveright ($3.00). Emil Ludwig of Napoleon and Bismarck fame now tries his hand at a more dangerously familiar story-that of Jesus, Son of Man. Unadorned with the glittering paradoxes of Kenan's Vie, free from the sensationalism of Barbusse and the sentimentalism of Papini, clear of the pathos of the recent cinema version, Ludwig's is a popular, but none the less scholarly, interpretation. His indefatigable passion for historical records and documentary scraps immerses him in contemporary Latin and Greek commentaries, but chiefly...
...into the financial counsels of William IV, Elector of Hesse, until at length he held the strings of that ruler's considerable money bags. The needs of princes first, and later the needs of governments, were the opportunities of the Rothschilds. The wars of the Allies against Napoleon, the collection of the French indemnity, the efforts of Metternich to crush every outbreak of liberal ideas-all these required money. The Rothschilds provided it, at a profit...
Persons who approve the definition of Napoleon that history is a tissue of lies agreed upon, were annoyed that agreement has been delayed so long over "Anastasia...
...This indicates the real strength of that empire of civilization which tomorrow's Italy will become. As Napoleon once dominated Europe through France, so this modern Italian financially dominates America through the United States...
...studied his character closely. In Jackson he finds something akin to madness-perhaps the madness of a genius. Jackson has sometimes been compared to Cromwell, and though the analogy does not fit very closely, Mr. Tate shows that Jackson studied the Bible even more thoroughly than he did Napoleon...