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Rh ideal of frivolity, and that a crash of some kind must ensue. Her judgment on the Emperor after his fall is worth noting, if only because it is dispassionate. Since his elevation to the Imperial dignity she had lost all old illusions as to his public intentions. With regard to these, on the occasion of her interviews with him at the Élysée, he had completely deceived her, and designedly she had at first thought. Nor had she concealed her disgust.

George Sand's Journal d'un Voyageur pendant la guerre, has a peculiar and a painful interest. It is merely a note-book of passing impressions from September 1870 to January 1871; but its pages give a most striking picture of those effects of war which have no place in military annals.

The army disasters of the autumn were preceded