Books, Arts & Manners: The Universal Emperor

Charles V By Otto von Habsburg Praeger, 280 pp., $8.95

This book, by the former Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, about his ancestor Charles V, on whose Empire “the sun never set,” is a real treat for anybody interested in Western history and in the teachings of the past, which may serve as guidelines for the present and for the future. Whoever knows Archduke Otto realizes that he would not have gone to the trouble of describing even an illustrious ancestor merely l’art pour l’art if such an analysis were without relevance for our days. This biography has more than analytic value: coming from the pen of a man passionately devoted to the cause of European unity and mutual Western understanding, it serves a pedagogic purpose.

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Charles V By Otto von Habsburg Praeger, 280 pp., $8.95

This book, by the former Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, about his ancestor Charles V, on whose Empire “the sun never set,” is a real treat for anybody interested in Western history and in the teachings of the past, which may serve as guidelines for the present and for the future. Whoever knows Archduke Otto realizes that he would not have gone to the trouble of describing even an illustrious ancestor merely l’art pour l’art if such an analysis were without relevance for our days. This biography has more than analytic value: coming from the pen of a man passionately devoted to the cause of European unity and mutual Western understanding, it serves a pedagogic purpose.