New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-02
THE BISMARCK UENOIRS.
NEGOTIATIONS FOR THEIR PUBLICATION
THE PRINCE AND HIS POLICY.


THE PRINCE AND HIS POLICY.
Berlin correspondence Of The London Standard.
have received the following information re-
garding the Bismarck memoirs. The negotia-
tons about their sale and publication We're end
ed by a personal conversation between Prince
Bismarck and Herr Kroner. head Of the two
united publishing companies, Union and |.
G.. Cotta's Successor. both Of Stuttgart. AS
the representative Of the latter, Herr Kroner
had gone 20 Kissingen. where Bismarck was a.
the time. and the conference, which lasted sew
era hours evidently made deep impression
him. The price was fixed at half A million
marks. not Il million. as has been repeatedly
stated Of late: but il has risen 10 nearly mill
ion by subsequent additions 20 the work. the
sale OF the right Of translation interest on the
sums paid etc. 1t was further arranged that
the work was not to he published till after Bis
marcks death and the granting Of the present
Prince Bismarck's permission. Some other con-
dtions. afterward dropped need not be men
toned. The manuscript was sent to stuttgart.
carefully inclOsed. with 4 statement IN BIS
marcks own hand on The outside. and officially
sealed. The work will ne in two or perhaps
three volumes. The setting in type began soon
after with the most stringent precautions, which
were enforced on all engaged in the work. The
compositors, who were chosen for special re-
liability. told that the work was by 4 we'll
known German writer. and each OF them got so
small a piece Of the manuscript at time that
il was impossible for them 20 guess the exact
nature of The book The unusual pregnancy Of
the style. however, IS 9aid to have awakened
conjectures of the truth in the minds of the
more sagacious Of them AS soon as part was
done and corrected II was locked up by Herr
Kroner himself who will DO the final work him
self II is said however. that Prince Herbert
Bismarck wishes to peruse the proofs before
publication, and has gone nobody knows where
for that purpose. This would. perhaps. explain
why the Union and Cotta's Successor have NTH
erto told all nqurerS that they cannot say any
thing definite the subject II - generally
believed however that the first volume is being
prepared for publication with all possible speed.
have good authority for stating that all who
pyDect new great and surprising disclosures
will be bitterly disappointed. My informant as
sured me that the Wort. will not contain what Is
generally understood by the designation me-
rnoirs." but rather AT enumeration or concate-
nation Of the great principles by which Bis
marCk was guided in home and foreign poHcy
md will give psychological explanation OF his
actions in connection with current events. IL is.
therefore very probable that they Will elicit
numerous and detailed comments from other
actors in the drama or their surviving represen-
tatives. Many passages show the real motives
and inner workings Of great events. IN connec-
ton with momentarily burning facts ana ques-
lions. The work is said 70 have been written
by Herr Chrysander and Herr Lothar Bucher-
especially the latter-under Bsmarck's guild
ance. Herr Bucher is said 10 have incorporated
in il all his own "reminiscences and memoranda
connected with the events referred TO- in accord
ance with Bsmarck's wishes 1t Is certain, ar
least that Herr Butcher left no manuscript ex-
cept q short essay on the right of the HohenZol-
Ierns - the throne Of Schleswig- Holstein which
was anonymously published before the war Of
1864 Almost all the contracts regarding the
publica ION and translatons said To have
been concluded 4 good while ago. IN order that
the work may appear simultaneously III differ
ent languages An edition Is 10 consist ~ Two
hundred thousand copies, but this seems, from
all | have heard very doubtful
Mr.. Henry Newbolts book Of verse "Admirais
AL" has gone INTO lis hii,eenth edit!on-an
excellent circul alton. considering that II IS not