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ORIGINAL LISTS of PERSONS of PUCK on PEGASUS. By H. Chol

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REMINISCENCES of a SOLDIER. By they will, no doubt, be well appreciated by the latter, especially

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TERESINA PEREGRINA; or, Fifty

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1874.

LITERATURE

THE SURRENDER OF METZ.

The Betrayal of Metz. Being a New and Revised Edition of the Fall of Metz, with a Postscript containing a Summary of the Proceedings of the Court Martial upon Marshal Bazaine, by G. T. Robinson. (Bradbury, Agnew & Co.)

THREE years and a half ago we reviewed this book, and it is not our practice to review a second edition. On this occasion, however, recent events have given a special value to this work, which has also been, to a certain extent, re-modelled. Marshal Bazaine's escape from prison by the aid of his young wife has recalled attention to the darkest episode in the FrancoPrussian war; we shall, therefore, we believe, be rendering our readers and the cause of truth a service if we again criticize the book before us. Mr. Robinson arrived in Metz before the battle of Borny; he left it on the day of the capitulation. He possessed many friends in the town; he was always well to the front when fighting was going on, and, as balloonist, was officially connected with the defence. As regards opportunities of seeing and knowing, therefore, Mr. Robinson is an excellent authority on the siege of Metz. Of his ability and integrity there can be no question; but with respect to impartiality, we fear we cannot say so much. He evidently desires to say the truth, the whole truth, and nothing more than the truth; but it is impossible to read his book without being convinced that his associates during the siege, among whom may be counted the chivalrous if misguided Rossell, were bitterly hostile to the Marshal, and ready to misinterpret his every word and action. Still if we eliminate what Mr. Robinson merely heard or inferred, there remains amply sufficient in what he himself saw to prove that the army was sacrificed to Bazaine's desire to play a political rather than a military part. Of bad management and want of skill and organization there was abundance before the siege of Metz began; but with Marshal Bazaine's mistakes we have nothing to do, and it was not till after he was cut off from the rest of France that any signs of a deliberate intention to make personal capital out of the army entrusted to him began to appear. On the 31st of August, Bazaine, knowing that, in compliance with his request, MacMahon was in full march to relieve him, made his first attempt, or pseudo-attempt, to break through the investing force. Mr. Robinson saw that the tents were not struck, that the baggage did not accompany the troops. The army was under arms at daybreak, but it was not till 4 P.M. that the first shot was fired :

"Our forces rested nearly twelve hours on the slope of St. Julien without doing anything-resting, too, right in full view of the enemy, who had ample time to bring up his reinforcements to the front so deliberately threatened. Marshal Bazaine stopped comfortably in the Château Grumont reinforcing himself, and surrounded by his faithful Imperial Guard, who took no part in the proceedings."

At night-fall the French had carried the whole of the enemy's advanced posts that were situated on the line of advance. In fact, not

withstanding his delay, Bazaine had won the first part of the game. A little energy and the bringing up of reinforcements in the morning and the investing line would have been broken. Reinforcements were not, however, brought up. Canrobert, on the left, had not seized those bridges under his very nose by which all night long the Prussians were passing troops from the western to the eastern bank of the Moselle. Still the fighting re-commenced on the following morning, and the French were gaining ground, when all of a sudden the retreat was sounded, and Bazaine's army, with success almost within their grasp, sullenly fell back.

All communication with the outside by ordinary means having become impossible, Mr. Robinson bethought him of balloons, and received a sort of tacit permission to try and carry out his idea. He succeeded in sending off several balloons laden with letters; but some of these cargoes were captured by the Prussians, who forwarded Mr. Robinson's letters to the Marshal, a fact which the former considers a proof that there was a good understanding between the two contending generals. This may or may not have been the case; but it is certainly singular that "often had we the balloon inflated, and no letters came. When the wind was unfavourable, that is, when it blew right towards Prussia, we were told to send off a balloon. When it blew towards Belgium or Luxembourg, we were not permitted to launch it." Annoyed at this evident intention to thwart him, Mr. Robinson gave up his task of aerial postmaster, and when the siege terminated, there were several postal balloons ready, "and some thousands of letters written to accompany them." Besides these postal balloons, Mr. Robinson planned a large reconnoitring balloon. The cost would have been 14,000 francs, or 560l., but the Marshal grudged the amount. Prince Murat then offered to pay the whole sum, on condition that he might quit Metz by the balloon after it had been employed in reconnoitring the enemy's position, but the Marshal declined to accept the proposal. Occasionally little affairs of outposts for the purpose of extending the area occupied by the French army, and obtaining food and forage, took place. These were generally successful, and every one became eager to be allowed "to make larger and more extensive forages. But the Marshal was very difficult to move. Nor was it until he heard that a petition was in circulation in the town that he could be shamed into making any movement."

About noon on the 22nd of September the first of these sorties commenced. Only one corps d'armée, however, was employed, but its success in driving back the Prussian advanced posts and collecting provisions showed what might have been accomplished had a determined attempt been made to break the investing circle. Several similar sorties succeeded, but they were mere foraging expeditions. At length the discontent in the town and army became so great, that the Marshal consented, or pretended to consent, to make a sortie with a view to breaking through in the direction of Thionville. The morning of the 4th of October was named for the attempt, but at the last moment it was postponed, and from the absence of all serious preparation it is reasonable to suppose that it was never intended to

take place. On the 7th of October a foraging expedition on a large scale was ordered; but not a move was made till 10 A.M.; the troops were openly brought up, as if to give the enemy warning, and the sight of tents left standing, with knapsacks, in many cases, piled in front of them, and of the reserve of artillery unharnessed, showed that food and a specious demonstration of activity were the only objects which the Marshal had in view. Not till noon was the first shot fired; but the Imperial Guard, which had not been engaged since the 16th of August, was on this occasion employed. The Marshal, however, in a subsequent order of the day, admitted that nothing but foraging was intended. At length provisions began to run short, and the bread was made of a composition in which there was very little pure flour; yet even then "the horses of some of the many exalted personages we had amongst us were fed with wheat." Instead of trying to keep up the spirits of the population and the army in such a crisis, the Marshal displayed the most selfish indifference to the misery by which he was surrounded.—

"Never did he show himself outside the gates of the château he monopolized at Ban St.-Martin. By day he smoked, and he played billiards by night; and he scandalized the whole town of Metz by sending all over it for a pâté de foie gras, and offering any sum for the toothsome luxury, when the soldiers were reduced to 200 grammes of bread per day. Never once did he visit the camps to cheer the soldiers during their long weary time of waiting. Never once did humanity dictate to him a visit to the ambulance, amongst those poor wounded who had fought under his orders."

From the beginning of October parlementaires began to pass frequently, and inquiry was even at that early period made as to whether the troops would surrender or not. At length, on the 27th of October, the capitulation was signed. Bazaine maintained that it was brought about by famine, that a triple line of Prussian works surrounded the town, and that to pierce them was impossible. As to famine, the town rather than the army suf fered from it; no attempt was made to economize provisions from the first, the perquisitions for hidden stores were not rigorously conducted; and even so late as the 23rd of October, four days' provisions at once were issued to the soldiers, and a similar quantity on the day of the entry of the Prussians. Moreover, when that entry took place a considerable amount of food was found in the city. Even the peasants who quitted Metz were accompanied by carts laden with sacks full of bacon and flour, and other eatables. It is false, therefore, to say that Metz was reduced by famine; and it is evident that had the Marshal even at the last awoke to a sense of his duty, he could, without inflicting great suffering on the garrison and inhabitants, have prolonged the defence for at least another fortnight. That fortnight would probably have led to the siege of Paris being temporarily raised. line of the Prussian field works, Mr. Robinson declares that he only came across a few slight earthworks, not even mounted with cannon, and that others who had escaped from the town by different routes told the same tale. It is, we think, clear that the Marshal, even if he thought it best to abstain from breaking the investment, might have greatly enlarged the area occupied by his army, thus

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obtaining additional supplies, and that under any circumstances he might have held out much longer than he did. Clear proof of deliberate treason is, however, in our opinion, wanting; and it must be remembered that, in that matter, Bazaine ought to be tried not by our standard, but by that which prevailed in France at the time.

think, too, Prof. Maspero's paper 'On the Instructions of King Amenemhat' deserves a similar exception, as, till he took the matter up, the text of this papyrus was only known by Mr. Goodwin's brief analysis in the 'Cambridge Essays.'

Again, on the supposition of translations of memoirs by foreign scholars,-a plan every English student would gladly have hailed, we find but one article, that by Mr. S. M. Records of the Past. 2 vols. (Bagster & Drach, 'The Travels of an Egyptian,' which Sons.)

THE editor does not tell us why this somewhat pretentious title has been chosen for these volumes, nor does he give their raison d'être, or state why the Society of Biblical Archæology has been willing to stand as sponsor to their publication. He simply expresses a hope, we fear but too likely "to prove a flattering tale," that "it will popularize the translation of the texts themselves," an end possibly attainable, had some explanatory notes been added for the benefit of that numerous class of readers who are not, like Moses, skilled" in all the wisdom of the Egyptians." He further thinks these books will serve as a manual for students," and "will render them masters of the Assyrian and Egyptian languages," an amiable wish, the father of an improbable thought.

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We are, therefore, left to pure conjecture as to the "final cause" of this publication, and must suppose (the popularizing theory being clearly out of the question) that the book is due to the intrinsic value or novelty of the documents themselves, or to the desire of setting forth in an English dress the labours of distinguished Continental scholars. Now, so far as the value of the papers themselves is concerned, we have, it is true, in the first, or Assyrian portion, the inscriptions of Khammurabi, of Ashurbanipal, of Sennacherib, and of Darius Hystaspis; and it is certainly convenient to possess such documents, greatly amended as they have been since their original publication, in a light and handy form; while in the second, or Egyptian volume, we have papers by Dr. Birch on the Annals of Thothmes the Third; a notice by him of the battle of Megiddo; and a paper by Mr. Canon Cook on Pianchi-Meramun, a king of the Twentysecond Dynasty. These, no one doubts, are memorials of historical importance, and, therefore, worthy alike to be collected and republished. They are, however, accompanied by many others which can hardly have any general interest. Again, on the supposition of novelty, we find that out of some twenty-six or twenty-seven separate articles, a very small number are really new to those who have watched attentively the progress of Assyrian or Egyptian discovery; while many of the most valuable papers, as 'The Annals of Thothmes' and Mr. Renouf's

Tale of Two Brothers,' have been published (more or less fully) by at least half-a-dozen different scholars in as many different periodicals. The only articles which seem to be wholly new are four papers in Vol. I. by Mr. Sayce (Nos. 1, 8, 9, and 10); and a portion of No. 12, for some reason not wholly translated, by M. Jules Oppert. All of these show, as we should expect, the diligence and care of a young but ripe scholar; while Mr. Sayce's Assyrian Calendar' (No. 13), and his 'List of Weights and Measures' (No. 14) are, we believe, the most complete yet printed. We

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is a direct translation (from the French of M. Chabas); on the other hand, all the papers in Vol. I., with the exception of four or five, are reprints from English periodicals, the same being also true of nearly all those in Vol. II. Nay, in one instance, that of Mr. Smith's Annals of Ashurbanipal, a portion of the materials already published has been omitted here, without any apparent reason, much, we feel sure, to the regret of those who are familiar with the handsome volume, issued, in 1871, at the expense of Messrs. Bosanquet and Talbot.

Having said so much on the possible origin of these volumes, we must make a few remarks, first, on the way in which they have been "got up"; and, secondly, on their contents. Now, at the very commencement, we notice several (it may be trifling) matters tending to lower them grievously in the estimation of any scholar. Thus, the orthography of wellknown names is not cared for, M. Mariette sometimes appearing correctly thus, at others, with two rr's, "Marriette"; while M. De Horrak will not permit Passalacqua (Joseph of Trieste) to spell his name his own way (for which he had a reason), but dubs him " 'Passalaqua." Again, many instances occur of words and phrases used as English which are not English, and we devoutly hope never will be. Thus Mr. S. M. Drach, who has lived long enough in England to know better, talks of the "collaboration" of another scholar, and, moreover, makes this scholar supply the text he is editing with a "perpetual commentary." The editor himself speaks of the "hand of script in which it was inscribed," which is simply unintelligible; and, in another place, of negroes who were "conscribed" for the Egyptian army. Mr. Smith uses "Fastes" for Fasti or Annals, this being the natural French word of M. Botta, from whom he is copying. Again, the learned editor must forgive us if we say that such a sentence as the following, "the nature of each monument is also mentioned, whether it is inscribed on stone or a tablet, or cylinder of terra-cotta, or object of material employed for the purpose," is slip-shod English; that we do not quite know what he means by a text "marching to the cadence of a harmonious syntax "; and that it is a confusion of metaphors to talk of

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anything (knowledge, for instance) as being "imperfectly transmitted by secondary sources. We may add that we should like to see the original Egyptian text of the passage Mr. Renouf so elegantly renders, the young woman who went out to take a turn under the cedars"; and that we notice more than one passage in his translation which it would have been better to have left under the decent drapery of the dead Egyptian.

Having thus noticed some defects, which may easily be amended in a future edition, we must briefly refer to some of the subjects

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treated of in these volumes. Now, it is simply a matter of taste whether, with the exception of the historical documents already noticed, many or any of them are really worth reprinting. Certainly, we are not enamoured, as Mr. Goodwin professes to be, of his "beautiful hymn" to Amenra; while we are certain that, in the list of unpublished documents so carefully drawn up by Mr. Smith, subjects abound that might well have taken the place of Mr. Renouf's Tale of Two Brothers,' or of M. Chabas's Travels of an Egyptian.' The latter, indeed, it seems almost farcical to suppose represents any real travels. Rather, if not wholly imaginary, we consider them. as for a "sketch or model" (as has been suggested) for future travels, or as a catechism of geography, Ossianic in style, and quite as meaningless. Again, in the reprint of the Behistun Inscription, something more should have been said of the untiring labour bestowed by that great scholar, Mr. Edwin Norris, on the MS. of Sir Henry Rawlinson, when editing it for the first time in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society; and it would have been a graceful act to remind foreign students that the whole, or nearly the whole, of the Latin interlinear translation was due to the fertile scholarship of the late Rev. G. C. Renouard.

In conclusion, we may add what will indeed be anticipated, that these volumes contain some speculations more bold than wise. Thus Mr. Talbot, the "Hooke" of cuneiform decipherment, suggests (vol. i. p. 42) that " Anara," in an inscription of Sennacherib, is the "Aornos" besieged by Alexander, though the other acts of this campaign (the fifth) hardly refer to populations so far north as Bactria, still less to any east of the Indus; he seems also not to be aware of Prof. Wilson's simple explanation of this word, as the Græcized form of the Sanskrit awara or "awarana," a "stockade" or enclosure."

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Again, Dr. Birch fancies that, after the battle of Megiddo, the power of Egypt extended to Nineveh, and possibly to India. Yet the whole tenor of the inscription he is translating is adverse to such remote conquests, and points to Palestine and Mesopotamia as their chief scene thus tribute is received from the "chiefs of Assuru" (Assyria), and from the lands of the "Remenu" and "Rutennu " (Armenia and Syria, respectively). Even Beluchistan, sometimes in later times called India, is too far to the east. The same may be said of the next inscription of Amen-em-heb. The hunting 120 elephants does not necessarily require a reference to India; and it is loose reasoning to assume that "the land of Nii" is "Nineveh or else India," as if they were adjacent countries.

The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman (Part III. The Whitaker Text), &c. Edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, M.A., for the Early English Text Society. (Trübner & Co.)

IN the volume before us we have the completion, as far as the text is concerned, of one of the most important works of the Early English Text Society. So long ago as 1866 the scheme for the publication of this poem in a correct form, and in such wise as to illustrate both the manner of its growth and the

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