New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-12
WHAT WILL BECOME or THE BISMARCK
DYNASTY
From The Contemporary Review

From The Contemporary Review.
Every one who showed loyal devotion TO the late
Geficken Sir Robert Morier, Baron Won Roggenbach-
all marked down for pitIlcss persecution; Their
were they not and all the friends OF Frederick III
What win come Of the Bismarck dynasty remains
in modern times: to found Ministerial dynasty Is
almost impossible. There Is no proof that the tnr-
so hard to make his has either the prescience
the courage Of his sire. To borrow a Johnsonan
strength, and all the contortions Of the sbyl without
her Inspiration. Nor can 1t be said that Count
Herbert has been trained in good school Adversely
is the best school for genius, and It in long years
OF storm and stress that his father discovered and
sagacly which have made him the foremost Minister
of the century. But the very magnitude Of his sue,
prong by the advantages which stood his father in
such good stead. Count Herbert Bismarck TO day is
Of his fathers voice. But when six feet two inches
of German soil all that Is mortal OF the mighty
fore tho nsolence of his son tolerate the unsupported
arrogance Of Bismarck II Tho young Emperor VIII
probably be the first TO chafe against Count Herberts
authority, and the wrongs OF tho mother may yet
be avenged by the hand of her son,
The Bismarck dynasty VII fall having done IT'S s
generous and benefccnt influences which the Empress
are 70 the DS long run q. than AZ 9s
Her Imperial Majesty may yet achieve glorious and
beodsss rve1ge sne can sS S ns M S me eaSs
ship Of cause far more important than that which
the vaor and sagacity OF the Hohenzollerns crowned
with victory before the gates Of Paris. II is possible
for Her Imperial Majesty to make her Court place
where the best men and women of the world, all who
striving bring In the brighter and the nober day
would find welcome encouragement, and inspiration.
Art, science, letters, philanthropy, and all that
mobiles life and tends TO lift to God would
find there natural homo, stately and yet simple.
Imperial and yet human, the cosmopolitan capital OF
all that makes for the betterment OF the world There
as IN ideal world, far removed from
the trammels Of Court etiquette and the
ntrgues of Chanoelors the Empress Victoria could re-
establish Arthurs Table Round
Z" And teach high thought and aniable words,
And courtliness and the desire Of fame
And love of truth, and ali That makes man,
Seated in tho centre Of the European continent in
Huence would be qo-extensive with the civilization
Of which II would be tho finest flower Whether her
Imperial Majesty WIN feel mpelled to ascend the
loftier Throne which now stands empty before her,
do not know. For the moment she Is too broken
and bowed down with the burden Of her WOO. But
TO her may address the familiar words which the
Poet Laureate addressed TO our widowed Queen
Break not, o woman's heart, but stiIl endure
Break not, for thou art Royal, but endure
Hers the unique position hers the unrivalled op-
portunfty. Others trammelled by routine and
limited by nationality, indeed she would herself
have been had she continued to occupy the throne of
Germany. wider Empire awaits her II she but
rises 10 the height Of her responsibilities, and acts
the Imperial head Of the womanhood and Of the culture
of the world.