The morning times., 1895-12-08
BUSCH'S BISMARCKIANA.
Tho Doctor Won Fame by Stories of
the Man of Iron.

The Doctor Won Fame by Stories of
the Man of Iron.
New York Sun.
DIR. Moritz Busch, who died In Berne on
Monda y, was crooked little ma n who gained
great fame by going through the Franco
Prussian war IN the massive BlsinarcKs
shadow. He wrote down his Bismarckiana
in thick book, which has sppea red in ALLAN
guages. In English this book Is known as
Bismarck and His People" 1t Is the best
true story book concerning any great man
since Dr. johnson. In 1t Busch told Of the
doings of tn at remarkable collection or news
paper men, unemplo yed diplcmattsts, and
International junketers who formed BIS;
marck's camp following in 1870. 1t Is safs
to say that not one OF the countless authors
who recently essayed to be Bismarck's bi-
ographers has resisted the temptation to
plumber bright things from Busch's work.
II Busch had been anything except Ger
man, he doubtless would have given to the
world a Bismarck biography which would
have been second to no work OF It's kind In
any literature, for he had lived and breathed
and had his being for years in the Bism arck-
ian atmos sphere, and knew the old chancel
lor's political alphabet from A to z. How
ever being a German, Busch never thought
he had devoted enough grinding study 70
the acts and archives which are supposed
to be Indispensable to any proper German
work on such a subject, SO he merely LETT
what he modesuy called. Materials Tor
the Life of Our Chancellor" Anybody
who want sto know Bismarck as he labored,
hoped, feared, suffered, sorrowed, retoiced
and succeeded, has only TO read this vol
ume and the one previously mentioned
From them he will get such picture OF the
Man of Iron as all the rest OF the mountain
Gus Bismarck literature fails 20 give.
Bismarck in power always held under bis
protection and Influence certain number
of brilliant me who were known In Berlin
as .'Bismarck's lost souls" Lothar Bucber,
the revolutionary genius OF the '4O's, was
one of these souls. Karl Marx bad an oppor-
tunity to be ne of them, as did also William
Liebknecht, but both declined the offers
with thanks. Busch, however, accepted Bis
marcks cali. Perhaps be did better TO ac-
| cept 1t than be could have done far from the
influence OF the man IN whose reflected
genius he achieved his fame.
| With all bis cleverness Busch was not the
| most pleasing personality in the world, and
| IN the dipl plomatic service was not destined
| to accomplish any great things. To most
persons acquainted with bis life and work
| 1t must have seemed little strange TO read
that .'Dr. Moritz Busch. German minister
| to Switzerland" was dead, for Busch, the
! civil servant. always had been lost 10 view
| In Bu sch, the Bismarck storg-teller.
| 1t was as if Hawthorne should be recalled
! as the Salem custom house Official oil
Bret Harte should get his encyclopedia intro
| duction as an American consulin Scotland.
| Viewed apart from his association with
| Bismarck little Busch occupied very small
niche in the world-a ninche hardly bigger
| than that of the ayera ge man. Taken with
| his delightful stories OF his protector, how
| ever he filled a considerable space, and
/ will continue to fill II as long as Bismarck
and his work have chapters in history.
While relating hundreds OF anecdotes ol
Others Busch was the subject OF hardly a
I single good story. Afew weeks ago, how
| ever, the German newspapers pa ssed daround
the principal figure.
| The little man sat his horse on hill over
looking part of the field. He was tremen-
| dously excited, and remarked repeatedly to
| correspondent nea rhim:
why, in Gods name doesn't our cavalry
come up7 Thunder and lightningl VIII!
doesn't it come up3"
Bismarck was near by, with the emperor
| and a group Of staff officers. As Busch relt
| Grated his exclamations with increasing
vehemence the chancellor rude over to Hill
| and said:
MY dear doctor, II his majesty should
| hear your comments he would ask at once
VINO is this trooper general In disguise?
| Then I should be obliged to tell him wha
an ilustrious place you occupy among th'
| camp followers. He might even want yot
for the grand general staff"
| That ended the small doctors public com
| ments on the conduct OF the German cavalry
| in action.