New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-02

other In a row, broken by articles on
Berlin, Munich, Dresden aid Weimar,
the past being always ktpt in per-
spective, the better to judge the pres
ent.
It is a happy process, az least in Mr..
Whitmans skilled hands, this grating
OF serious study Of a people on the
Towering branches of a delightfully."-
green and fresh anecdoRge.. How far
distant seems the old Bmperor's DELHI
crate sighting Of Won Moser because
he considered the writing Of comedies
most undignified occupation for
German officer! The playwright, We
learn further, received hardly any share
whatever Of the English profits Of The
Private Secretary" which amounted TO
100000. Moltke's silence in seven
languages is. world-famous, but in re-
atty his was rather "a Doric brevity.
Never a superfueus word marred his
, laconic sentences" After Sadowa a
member Of his staff enthusiastically adj
yocated an Immediate march on
Vienna. What would you do after
you got there?" he asked. Lenbach, on
being asked what was his price for por-
traits. answered THAT depends. From
&C, 600 marks, which 1 may ask. down
to 5000, which | may be willing to pay
for the privilege Of painting an excep-
tionally interesting face" He disliked
painting royal p ersonages, finding most
Of them embarrassing subjects.
SO much has been said Of Bismarck
that further information concerning
him that is worth while would seem all
most impossible. Still, here is really
important story that is not generally
known. According to it, the famous
Herr Won Holstein already nursed the
idea of the Iron Chancellor's compul-
sorry retirement from Office during the
lifetime OF william I. In the winter Of
1SS7-'SS:
A gentleman in a high position was
quite Unexpectedly asked 10 luncn oyI
extraordinary occurrence, inasmuch as ls
was common knowledge that Herr Won
Holstein led a solitary life and had natg,
ly ever been known 10 ask guests 70 ~;
table In the course of the luncn 40
spoke deliberately of Prince Bismarck
having become too old for the Response.
bilities of his office, that he was Lostnsl
his memory and mixed up everything
Ger embrouIllirte Alles'D, and that II "ssl
time for the good of the empire that 10
Aa
Mr. Whitman, who certainly knows
dIssipates a deeply and firmly esta0'
lished opinion when he assures US may
In no government offices in any othet
country with which he is acquain'eu
do foreign journalists meet win wv
courtesy with which he, at least nc"
invariably been received in the WV"
helmstrasse, from the sturdy haIl po'-
ter, with the Iron Cross OF 1917 oi
his breast, throughout the diHefe"s
grades Of officials. up to the aus
Excellency himself. and this "hsS ~.
the visitor represents journal lrie"0''
or otherwise TO German interests
At the time of the Boer war. r'
Marshal Blumenthal told MT "n
man that the English were spiehOl.
fellows. but with only one idea
Of shooting or being shot. TheF
ficers were not sufficiently traineu,
added this successful soldier, the -
slams have gone to the other eA' .ad
1.-The plodding bookworm ges -
too often now. In my time our 30
received a sound technical trai.i'n''
but the indlvidual--the personal"
was, after all, the deciding e''
Hence. our results"
OF Wagner's eccentricitles 'hei'
here two new instances, one o,
visit paid him by the director u
Royal Dresden Opera House. W."
having been announced in proper io'.
was received by the great COMP
standing on his head against "a
grand plano, and the other OF 'n0
Emperor's only visit to bay
Wagner's music bored him. out o..
cording to custom, he sent iof
composer during an interni'
Wagner told the aide-de-camp tha'