Throne-Makers

Books by William Roscoe Thayer
THE DAWN OF ITALIAN INDEPENDENCE: Italy from the Congress of Vienna, 1814, to the Fall of Venice, 1849. In the series on Continental History. With maps. 2 vols. crown 8vo, $4.00. THRONE-MAKERS. Papers on Bismarck, Napoleon III., Kossuth, Garibaldi, etc. 12mo, $1.50. POEMS, NEW AND OLD. 16mo, $1.00.
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
Boston and New York.
THRONE-MAKERS
BY WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1899
COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TO DR. MORRIS LONGSTRETH IN MEDICINE, ORIGINAL AND WISE IN FRIENDSHIP, STEADFAST
Since 1789 every European people has been busy making a throne, or seat of government and authority, from which its ruler might preside. These thrones have been of many patterns, to correspond to the diversity in tastes of races, parties, and times. Often, the business of destroying seems to have left no leisure for building. In England alone have men learned how to remodel a throne without disturbing its occupant; as we in America raise or move large houses without interrupting the daily life of the families who dwell in them.
To portray the personality of some of the conspicuous Throne-Makers of the century is the purpose of the following studies. I have wished to show just enough of the condition of the countries under review to enable the reader to understand what Bismarck, or Napoleon III, or Kossuth, or Garibaldi, achieved. I have been brief, and yet I trust that this method has afforded scope for exhibiting that influence of the individual on the multitude which—however our partial science may try to belittle it—was never more strikingly illustrated than by such careers as these in our own time.