The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 1, December, 1850Various
History
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 1, December, 1850
Various
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Science -- History -- Periodicals
Works on the German Revolution and German Politics.--An excellent book
on the Prussian revolution is now being published at Oldenburg. It is
from the pen of Adolf Stahr, a writer of remarkable force and clearness.
He belongs to the party most bitterly disappointed by the turn affairs
have taken in Germany. We mean the democratic monarchists, who labored
under the illusion that they might see Prussia converted into a sort of
republic with a hereditary chief, like Belgium. They desired a monarchy,
with a parliament elected by universal suffrage, and democratic
institutions of every kind. Stahr's book breathes all the bitterness of
their rage at the success of absolutism in snatching from them every
slightest vestige of hope. His book is published serially, four parts
having already been issued. As a record of facts it deserves the praise
of great industry and lucidity in collection and arrangement, while on
every page there glows in suppressed eloquence the indignation of a
generous and manly heart. Of course Stahr cannot be called a historian
in the usual sense of the term. He is rather a political pamphleteer,
maintaining at length the ideas and chastising the foes of his party.
Another and a more permanently valuable work on this subject is the
_Revolutions-Chronik_ (Revolutionary Chronicle) of Dr. Adolf Wolff,
published by Hempel of Berlin. This is a collection of authentic
documents, such as proclamations, placards, letters, legislative acts,
&c., connected with the revolution. They are not only arranged in due
order, but are combined with a clear and succinct narrative of the
events and circumstances to which they relate. We know of no man more
competent than Dr. Wolff to the successful execution of so important an
undertaking. Without being a partisan, his sympathies are decidedly on
the popular side, and the clearness of his judgment cannot be blinded by
any of the feints and stratagems in which the period abounded. He is now
engaged upon the revolution in Prussia, but intends to treat all the
manifestations of the time throughout Germany in the same thorough and
reliable manner. His work will be invaluable to future historians of
this eventful period; at the same time it reads like a romance, not only
from the nature of the events, but from the spirit and keenness of the
style.
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