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...Witter Bynner's poetic phizog labeled as Alfred Neumann (TIME...
...horrendous clerical blunder (in picture-filing), apologies to Author Neumann, Poet Bynner, TIME'S readers...
...Alfred Neumann, German historical novelist, has evidently pondered Guedalla's book. Preferring heroics to irony, and following the career of a man who is one of the "outs," to satirizing the bigwigs of the "ins," Neumann has wisely terminated his story of Louis Napoleon in the early '50's. Another Caesar is the prelude to the "gaslit tragedy." It is a big, colorful, shrewd novel that sticks pretty closely to the actual course of history. Conversations may be invented, but the characters are all out of the past. And Neumann's analysis of personality and motive...
...Neumann, while alive to the contemporary parallels in the story of the third Napoleon, does not go out of his way to stress them. He is more concerned with the pernicious effects of an inherited legend upon a nice young man. Through Le Bas, the young Louis' Jacobin tutor, he dins it in that the boy had no chance to develop normally. All his life he was subjected to a forcing process, whether at home in Switzerland or at the Artillery School at Thun. Hortense, Louis' mother, was soaked in the Napoleonic idea. The daughter of Josephine...
Another Caesar is not Neumann's first historical novel. The Devil, published in the U. S. in 1928, had considerable success. A play, The Patriot, was made into one of Emil Jannings' best cinemas. Since the advent of Hitler, Neumann has lived in Florence. Another Caesar has been translated into eight languages besides English...