The evening times., 1898-12-03
Points from the Memoirs of
the Late "Iron Duke"
HONORS HIS FIRST LORD
Words of Tribate to the Old En-
peror William.
Says Queen Victoria of England
Regarded Him ns an unsymRa-
thetic Personality.


many, Prince Bismarck. will he before the
world within a week. The pub .icHtion is
announced from American publishing
house next Saturday. Al all points they
will disappoint expectations. There is lit
tie in these two bulky volumes which is
startingly new, still less that is starting
~ aggressive. The lust of the many for
gossip. the love ofathe few for ins Sruction
will ind scant qualification. In the after
respect the volumes are indeed more valu-
able than DR.. Busch had led us to hope;
in the former they are far less offensive
than the same authority had led US to
fear.
1t will be remembered that DR.. Busch,
in his somewhat sensational work, quoted
a conversation held with Bismarck in
March. 1891. The prince, who was even
then at work on his memoirs complained
of the difficulties attending the task.
Il have no documents, he said, ',and
even if | remember the main points qui.e
clearly one cannot. after all, carry in his
head every detail that has happened in
the course of thirty years. And again:
Ever since IS4T | have constantly repre-
sented Jhe monarchical principle and held
it aloft like a banner. Now | have seen
three Kings in state of nudity, and fire.
queutly these three exalted gentlemen
did not make altogether a good show; sJin
it would not do to say that openly before
the world. 1t would be Inconsistent. OPP
posed TO principle And yet can just as
little keep silence when Gnce / come 10
deal with that point, 10 say nothing OF
asserting the contrary.
Yet in these volumes the three royal
| gentlemen are not exhibited in any atu-
tude Of nudity. William l is clothed with
| praise that shows hardly rent or stain;
Frederick III Is thoroughly tucked in be-
/ meath the mantle of charity, and William
/ II is not even mentioned save incidentally,
! though some of the praise bestowed upon
! William | Is evidently meant as an oo-
| iique reflection upon William H.
Not ChivaIrons 20 Women.
Toward the ladies of his entourage tie
! old chancellor is less chiyalrous.
| OF William Is wife the old chancellor
writes: Princess Augusta preserved
/ from her youthful days al Weimar 10 the
/ end of her life the impression that
/ French. and still more English, auth1ri-
| ties and persons were superior 10 those OF
/ her own country. She Was Of true Ger
! man blood in one way. IN her was yeri-
.
/ expressed in the phrase. that does not
/ come from afar. so It's good for nothing
/ A cucksure Frenchman with Nolubie
tongue imposed upon her an Engiishman
4 had always the presumption on his side
I until the contrary was proved that he
was to be treated in Germany as su-
/ perior person.
+ It was on August 5, 1856. that Bismarck
first met Queen Victoria and Prince Al
bert at state ball given in honor of the
! former At Versailles.
/ He describes the prince as looking
/ handsome and cool in his black uniform.
Though he conversed courteOusly with
( the Prussiani ambassador, there was in
! his manner "a kind of malevolent Curl
osity, from which | concluded that my
! auti-occidentai influence upon the king
was not unknown TO him. In accordance
| with the mode Of thought peculiar to
/ him. he sought for the motives of my
( conduct not where they really lay, that
is in the anxiety to keep my country in
/ dependent of the foreign infiuences-in-
/ huences which found a fertile soil in our
narrow minded reverence for England
| and fear of France and in the desire to
hold ourselves aloof from a war which we
! should not have carried on III our own
/ interests. but in dependence upon Aus
/ trian and English policy. In short, in
the eyes of the Prince Consort, Bismarck
appeared as reactionary party man
who had taken up sides for Russia during
the Crimean imbroglio in order to further
an absolutist and 'junker' policy.
OF Queen Victoria he simply says that
she spoke to him at the same ball in
German. and apparently looked upon him
as a noteworthy but unsympathetic per
sonality. Still, her tone of voice was
without that touch of ironical superiority
that | thought l detected in Prince AL
bert's. She continued to be amiable and
( courteous, like one unwilling TO treat an
eccentric fellow in an unfriendly way"
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