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Otago Witness, Issue 2202, 14 May 1896, Page 38

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P«rh*p9 the moat attractive picture in No. 15 of -StodcUrd'* Portfolio is tho •• Bnttle of Rivoli;" in the Ghll&ry of Battles, Versatile*. "It; is the work of the celebrated atfcirt Philiipoteanx. It represents the young Napoleon at one of the proudest tacmeiita m his eventful life, »•, he conducted sha* memorable struggle amid the Alps in 1797, when the so signally defeated the AastaUna. The portrait of Bonaparte is admirable. He ueoins inspired. GcHUifj is visible .in svery lino of that Jihin, pale face. Ia fact, nbwhero wss'lriii stupendous military genias more discernible *Jmn 'on *1» p!«in« of^Lombai dy and in tlu» ior{j<-s of the ■luliftn Alps, where tho ' Little Gorawan ' -with but a .handful of ill-fed jagged troops agfcin and •gain defeated the proudest .armies of An*tri«, and her moat erperieuond generals. 'Do txperimctd generals oppone mnf J cried fcbo youug commander. •So mnoh the better I I will soou na>ks them butii t-litiir "hooka on tactic?, «nd .Ifuow *ioi -wbjvc to do.' 'In fact, 'his vrond«i'ful rapidity awl power >of inKtsnvnnuaufl decision gave bim the jpuod And spring of a lion * The Freuoh do nnt march,' exclaimed an Austrian officer, 'tucy/y/' Tho stony o? Bonaparte's victories in Iralty, of which this of Rivoli was one of fche inoi-t brilliant, re«.'lß like k ioroaoce. It was never rquaUrd, ew,u by him>flelf, save possibly in 1813. wLcm ih«* Emperor, tuinfd by the R-wian oa.itipi.igtt, wuu «iMu>gling Bingl«-' tt' d^d agminsb anit. d Europa JButiin JUly >n 1797 fortune waa *ihh him. >In France in 1813 he hsd tempted the -fickle igoddess too far, and bis star was .waning, to sink at Jt»t behind -the wavo-wiwhed irook of Sfc. Helena." The reproduction of a number of auoh piotnres a* thin would have made ibis interextiog Bsries more popular, if thw w^re :pos*ible. Mtfiatß iPiiolor and Oemsby'w work is now nfc&riug itaJaiaU.