New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-01

detail with one significant ornission-the name %
the diplomat who gave him the treaty. Tho
story. needless to say. forms one OF the most
entertaining chapters In the memoirs II has.
too. a most unique sequel-the narrative OK the
method adopted by Bismarck five years later 70
entrap NJ. de Blowitz into revealing the mystery
Of the treaty.
According to NJ de Blowitz. the Iron Chancei-
To-. did not scrupIe to avail himself Of the ser
vices of a woman. the Princess Kralta, with
whom the journalist was well acquainted. She
surprised him one day BY giving him the details
of a peculiar mission upon which she had been
employed by Kaiser Wilhelm; and having thus
paved the way to condolences on his part she
suddenly asked him point blank how he had
been enabled to effect the publication Of the
Berlin Treaty at the moment Of its signature
We quote from the memoirs:
To her surprise I was silent.
For some moments. since the close OF her mar
rative one Of the candles OF the candelabrun
on the table in front Of the sofa had begun 70
flicker / was astOnished at this. the doors
and windows were all closed on looking around
I was unable TO guess from what quarter the
current of air came that caused the fame 20
flicker I moved and placed myself Just in
front Of the candelabrum. and / then felt. COM
ing from the direction Of the mirror. an unInls-
taxable draught which famed my cheek
L perceived at once that was the victim %
treaChery which is what I hate above all else
in the world. L closely scrUtinized the mirror
and that slight gap. which had been made
only during the last few instants, separated
the two halves Of the glass. and understood
that behind il there was witness ready 70 take
down what / might say. Rising suddenly, and
in a voice which 1 vainIy endeavOred to render
calm. 1 said, pointing at the pickering fame
and then at the clOven mirror. Just when the
Princess was putting out her hand 20 remove
the candlestick:
Madame, it is needless. You see that have
understood
She saw that distinctly and. turning away her
head she touched an electric button The door
opened. servant appeared. and. without look
ing at me. she stretched out her hand and indi-
Gated the way to the door.
A truly remarkable tale in a highly dramatic
setting. Thus does NJ de BIowitz score against
the man who had caused all Europe to laugh,
by remarking to a diplOmatist as he lifted up
the tabIecIOth at a session Of the Berlin con-
gress: Il am looking to see if Blowitz is not
underneath"
There many equally strange and sersa-
tionaI episodes in this collection of memoirs
There is for example. the story OF "Elou." the
religious zealOt whose life and death alike
formed a dismal tragedy; there is the Zenda-
like narrative Of the mysterious Princess Alva;
and there is the revelation Of the tragedy at
San Reno. with the doctors quarreIlng over
the pathetic figure of the dying Frederick But
it is not in these that the power of the Journal
ist is best revealed; it is in the chapters that
detail his browning triumphs. his diplomatic
successes-nOtably in connection with the
scare Of 1S1j-and his interviews with Leo XIII.
Bismarck and the Sultan. Truly. VI. de BlOwitz
need not have feared the fate-against which
he elOquently pleads in behalf of brother
journalists-the fate of passing from the stass
of life, matter what his achievements. "ul-
wept, UnhOnOred and unsuns"