The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-08
A LIFE THAT FAILED.
Character of Prince Bismarck II--What
 He Might Have Accomplished.

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 Character of Prince Bismarck II--What
 He Might Have Accomplished.
 At the comparatively early age of fif- ty-five, Prince Herbert Bismarck may be said to have fallen a victim of his lifelong endeavor to copy the charae- teristics of his father-forgetful of the maxim that nature abhors a duplicate.
 Not that the count was deficient in talents or industry; but he seemed to think that his successes in life depend ed less on the exercise of his natural gifts than on the cultivation of his faith CTS manner and methods in their most objectionable form. Herbert's true ca reer was soldering, of the pleasure and perils of whhich, however he only had a brief taste in the Balaklava,like charges which fell to the lot of his gall lant regiment at Mars-laTour, where he was severely Woundd.
 After the war Herbert was takn in hand by his father with intent to make him a full-f1edged diplomatist, or soar ing eagle second only in his sire. He was the enfant gate of his doting fath- CT, who looked upon him not only as a son, but also as 8 successor, and as the second member of that Bismarck dy- nasty which was to take root in Ger many beside that of I1et Hohenzollerns. If William Pitt succeeded the Earl of Chatham, why should not one Bis marck equally take the place of anoth- CT at the helm of Teutonic affairs? It was undoubtedly with the view of pre- pairing him for So high a destiny that Bismarck the First carved out the ear- ly career of his elder son in spirit of nepotisna, which, while natural enough in a parent, failed not to expose the chancellor to the biterest criticism of his enemies.
 Thus 1t was that, soon after entering the foreign office in 1873--being then only in his twenty-fourth year-Her- brt was enabled to make the round of all the chief missions Of the empire, stopping just long enough in each capi- tai to master its various mysteries, se- cial as well as political. But though nominally attached to some embassy or another, Coutn Herbert utilized the intervals of dullness occurring at any Ol lliS lVIrlS5il pOot5 DJ lCIulALlI6 bO Berlin to profit oy the private tuition of his father, and was in one of those in- tervals that he acted as assistant sec retary to the congress of Berlin. This in itself was a diplomatic education of no mean kind, bringing young Bis- marck into political heads of the time ''all the talents,'' so speak, of diplo- matic Europe.
 After the congress Herbert spent some time at the German embassy in London, where he made many friends, including Lord Rosebery, after whom he called his first-born son Archibald, but at the same time he also swelled the ranks of his severest critics. His manner were too pronouncedly Ger man to please the English, and had he not enjoyed the distinction of being. the son of his father-an accomplished ment which acts as passe-partout to so many-it is hard to say what might not have been his fate in London.
 His manners even at this. time might have been well illustrated by passage from ''The Story of My Life" by Mir. Augustus Hare, referring to a house party at Hatfield in November 1890, af- ter Count Herbert had been imbittered by his fathers fall and the termination of his own career: Another guest was Count Herbert Bismarck. Lady Sails bury had spoken of him as a fallen power greatly broken by his fall, and so had enlisted our sympathies for him. but he quenched them by his loud, au- thoritatiye manner, f1inging every sen- tence from him with defiant self-asser- tior. @:* N He is a colossal man and a great eater, and would always fill two glasses of wine at once, to have one in reserve As in other things, he also tried to initiate his fathers colos-