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Title: The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
Author: Various
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INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY MAGAZINE - VOLUME V - NO
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THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE

Of Literature, Art, and Science.
Vol. V. NEW-YORK, FEBRUARY 1, 1852. No. II.
[Illustration: THE LATE MARSHAL SOULT, DUKE OF
DALMATIA.]
THE LATE MARSHAL SOULT, DUKE OF DALMATIA.

CONTENTS
MARSHAL SOULT, DUKE OF DALMATIA. THE HOMES OF
COWLEY AND FOX. CHERTSEY AND ITS FAMOUS
CHARACTERS. TRAUGOTT BROMME ON THE UNITED
STATES OF NORTH AMERICA, TEXAS AND THE COLONIES. A
VISIT TO THE FIRE WORSHIPPERS' TEMPLE AT BAKU. A NEW
PORTRAIT OF CICERO. LORD MAHON'S HISTORY OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION. FAUST OF WITTENBERG AND
FUST OF MENTZ. SOME SMALL POEMS. MR. JUSTICE STORY,
WITH SOME REMINISCENT REFLECTIONS. COLUMBUS AT
THE GATES OF GENOA. FEATHERTOP: A MORALIZED
LEGEND. SMILES AND TEARS. FREEDOM OF THOUGHT AND
THE LATEST MIRACLES. THE SONG QUEEN. LOVE SONG.
AUTUMN LINES. THE PUNISHMENT OF GINA MONTANI. III.
IV. V. VI. VII. VISION OF CHARLES XI. DIVINATION,
WITCHCRAFT, AND MESMERISM. A CHAPTER OF EPITAPHS.
THE GOOD OLD TIMES IN PARIS. THE LEGEND OF THE
WEEPING CHAMBER. THE BULL FIGHT OF MADRID. THE
LADY AND THE FLOWER. AN OLD MAID'S FIRST LOVE.
MADEMOISELLE DE CAMARGO. MY NOVEL: BOOK IX. -
INITIAL CHAPTER.
CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.
REMINISCENCES OF PRINTERS, AUTHORS, AND
BOOKSELLERS IN NEW-YORK. Noctes Amicæ. Authors and Books
THE FINE ARTS Historical Review of the Month Scientific
Discoveries and Proceedings of Learned Societies. Recent Deaths.
Ladies' Fashions for February.

MARSHAL SOULT, DUKE OF DALMATIA.
On the preceding page is a portrait, and under the head of Recent
Deaths, in another part of this magazine, is a sketch of the history of
NICHOLAS JEAN-DE-DIEU SOULT, the last of the great Marshals
created by the Emperor Napoleon. He was unquestionably possessed of
extraordinary abilities, fitting him for eminence in many and diverse
capacities, but it cannot be said that he was of the first rank of

illustrious generals, as the world has been led to suppose, chiefly by the
masterly but partial delineations of his career in the Peninsula by
General Napier. He had a genius for war which qualified him for every
position in connection with it but that of leader in the field. The subtle
and irreversible decisions of Napoleon followed his astonishingly quick
apprehensions of facts, as suddenly as the thunderbolt follows lightning;
but Soult, profoundly familiar with all the arts of war, and surpassing
any of the great commanders with whom he was associated except only
his chief, in the wisdom of his judgments, was yet so slow in his
intellectual operations, so destitute of the enthusiasm, passion, and fire,
which in high circumstance give an almost miraculous activity to the
minds of the first order of men, that he could never have entitled
himself to all the precedences he has received in history. Napoleon
understood him, and in a few pregnant words addressed to O'Meara,
gave that measure of his character which will be adopted as the final
opinion of the world. "He is," said Napoleon, "an excellent minister at
war, or major-general of an army, one who knows much better how to
manage an army than to command in chief."
The course of Soult as a citizen, a legislator, and a minister, was not
one upon which his best biographers will linger with much satisfaction.
The glory he had achieved as one of the lieutenants of Napoleon, in that
turbulent and grand career which has no parallel for interest or
importance in human history, was his only claim to distinction in
politics. His master had an ambition as fair in its proportions as it was
vast in its extent, and brought to every purpose the same forces of
character and preternatural energy of intelligence; but Soult had no love
for civil duties, but little capacity for them, and he accepted place as a
gratification of vanity or a means of success in mercenary aims. We see
in all his private and political life "the soilure of his revolutionary
origin,"--proofs that he loved money and power far more than he loved
honor, and himself far more than his country or mankind.
The last of the