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... and culture. Her witty and urbane struggles with the unruly material that forms her argument become finally an argument that is still going on in our own atemporal times. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CAROL HOULIHAN FLYNN Metternich s German Policy. Volume II: The Congress of Vienna 18141815. By Enno E. Kraehe...

...Owen Connelly Metternich’s German Policy, Volume I: The Contest with Napoleon, 1799-1814 . By Kraehe Enno E. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1963 . Pp. x , 351 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Book Reviews 429 dex reference to Fortescue...

... by the sinister Metternich. In the former case, for reasons already indicated, his efforts were hopeless. The heart of Marie Louise was dead to her imperial husband, and the mere thought of France made her shudder. The terror was but momentary. Waterloo soon followed. Then came Napoleon s second abdication...

..., not by admiration for Napoleon. Four times defeated and bowed beneath a foreign yoke, they sorely needed a period of peace. Furthermore, they were haunted by the nightmare of a coalition between France and Russia. If Napoleon married Anna, Count Metternich, the foreign minister, predicted that the result would...

... adviser and associate of the Austrian Foreign Minister, Prince Metternich. Upon the conclusion of the Napoleonic struggle, Gentz, by now weary, apathetic, and cynical, but still useful and honored by the aristocratic governing groups of Europe, acted as secretary of the peace Congress of Vienna...

... first quarter of the nineteenth century when there were no nations to federate. Indeed, his point seems to be that Alex­ ander I, who, despite his mysticism and apparent good in­ tentions, was after all the ruler of a polyglot empire and who after Metternich probably knew as little about national spirit...

... domi­ nated it. And herein, rather than in faulty structure, lay the cause of the relative failure of the Confederation. Austrian and German purposes were not identical. The German liberals, always nation­ alist, regarded the Confederation as a progressive step toward po­ litical unity. Metternich...

... and culture. Her witty and urbane struggles with the unruly material that forms her argument become finally an argument that is still going on in our own atemporal times. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CAROL HOULIHAN FLYNN Metternich s German Policy. Volume II: The Congress of Vienna 18141815. By Enno E. Kraehe...

... UNIVERSITY THEODORE ROPP Metternich s German Policy, Volume I: The Contest with Na­ poleon, 1799-1814. By Enno E. Kraehe. Princeton: Princeton Uni­ versity Press, 1963. Pp. x, 351. $7.50. Professor Kraehe deals lightly with the years of Napoleon s ascend­ ancy and concentrates on the diplomacy of 1813-1814...

... politics against Russia and the explicit attempts to create a hostile coalition against her (as Metternich tried without success to do in 1828-29, and England and France did with greater success in the Crimean War) always proved counterproductive in that these moves tended to break down the restraints...

..., notably the Austrian Prince Metternich and the French diplomat, Talleyrand. Their program was restoration, as far as pos­ sible, of the undemocratic institutions existing before 1789. Time was to be rolled back twenty-six years. Motions for liberal reforms were to be nipped in the bud. Having the support...

... not have a free hand. The wishes of the other powers of Europe must be consulted and respected. Since the Congress ofVienna, Europe was dominated by Metternich, the Austrian chancellor, who sought to settle all European problems by means of congresses of the powers. Metternich s methods were based upon...

...) argues that Byron, led astray from militant poetry by the success of Childe Harold, was a Marxist without him (or Marx) knowing it a Che Guevara without proper ideology. In the longest essay, Cedric Hentschel explores the impact of Byron on Metternich, Kossuth, Engels, Bismarck, and Ludwig II, as well...

.... $5.00. Lucif. Duff Gordon. By Gordon Waterfield. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1937. Pp. xi, 358. $3-75The Private Letters of Princess Lieven to Prince Metternich, 1820-1826. Edited by Peter Quennell assisted in translation by Dilys Powell. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1938. Pp. xxii, 386. $3.75...

... of Childe Harold, was a Marxist without him (or Marx) knowing it a Che Guevara without proper ideology. In the longest essay, Cedric Hentschel explores the impact of Byron on Metternich, Kossuth, Engels, Bismarck, and Ludwig II, as well as on Goethe, Nietzsche, and a host of lesser writers. Each...

... of peoples growing together into nations and of the tangle of power politics from Metternich to Marshall have been much different if moderate Christianity had continued in force? Would the story of capitalistic invention and drive from Arkwright to Ford and of scientific discovery from Davy to Oppenheimer...

.... He then turned to the Russians. But, instead of Berlin, he tried to enlist in Vienna; John Y. Mason, United States Minister in Paris and a friend of his father s, gave him a letter to Prince Metternich. Whitehead reached Vienna in the fall of 1854, but had to cool his heels there for three months...

... in their outlook. The eighteenth-century gentleman was in no sense a nationalist, for he was anywhere elegantly at home, a la Chesterfield or Metternich. The auto­ cratic, religious, but internationalistic, Holy Alliance exem­ plified the original rightist viewpoint. The original left, dating from the French...

... Austrian art only from the Metternich era to the Revolution of 1918 came from private collections, many from the homes of intellectual refugees who had brought these works from the Danube to the Hudson. But with the war still on and the world still concentrating upon the bombing of Hiroshima, the exhi­...

... the Napol­ eonic wars represented a government which did not then have, has not since had, and probably never can have behind it a loyal and united nation. The Metternich system which fol­ lowed was, therefore, based on a total misapprehension in two important particulars of the conditions that existed...