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After these preliminaries, Prince Bismarck, at that time a mere country gentleman, was appointed prime minister of Prussia in 1862, shortly after the present King Emperor had inherited the throne of his brother and father. It should be noticed right here that, while Prince Bismarck has always shown the utmost devotion to his royal master, it is probably correct to say that he owes quite as much to King William as the latter owes to his trusted adviser, friend and servant. It was King William who discovered Prince Bismarck, placed him at the head of affairs, and kept him there, when the chancellor himself begged to be excused. It was King William who appointed Count Moltke head of the general staff of the army, and selected Count Roon, the great reorganizer and reformer of the Prussian army. The idea that King William is a mere figurehead, who was specially fortunate in securing good subordinates that made him famous, is utterly wrong. He is the real creator of modern Germany, and the illustrious trio-Bismarck, Moltke, Roon-were his instruments. Mr. Lowe describes the conflict which Prince Bismarck had with the Prussian chambers, with the German states, with Austria, with France. In those dark days, which began with Prince Bismarck's accidental remark that great national questions are not settled by speeches and parliamentary resolutions, but by "blood and iron," he would have been sacrificed and destroyed, but for the never-failing support of the king. Brain and success, the King and the ministers, triumphed over the professors and philistines who talked. Mr. Lowe then describes the establishment of the North German Confederation and the war against France. In the latter, it is needless to say, Prince Bismarck took good care of the political questions, for he knew that the army created by Roon, managed by Moltke, and composed of all that was manly in Germany, would pave the way for his political achievements. The London Times says of this work that Prince Bismarck 'welded the German race into one homeogeneous whole, and gave an empire to his King." This is very wide of the mark. It was done by the people who knew perfectly well what they were doing when they followed King Wil Extract from the Boston Beacon. Mr. Charles Lowe, the author of "Prince Bismarck, an historical biography," used to be the Berlin correspondent of the London Times, we think. In any event, he has produced the best biography of the iron chancellor, one of the most readable of biographies, and the best book ever written by an Eng lishman on German affairs. This is very high praise, but it is fully justified. Mr. Lowe's work is the result of original research. It is not altogether free from some English notions. Quite frequently it measures German affairs by the English standard— always an unprofitable proceeding, and Mr. Lowe himself is not altogether free from a certain condescension with which John Bull likes to treat his cousins German. But after all, Mr. Lowe has given us by far the best biography of Prince Bismarck and incidentally a very good history of Prussia for the past twenty years. His acquaintance with the other states of Germany is evidently not very thorough, and it is safe to say that his work will give more satisfaction in Berlin than in Munich or Vienna. But to this there is no objection, as long as the object of the two stately volumes is the life of the great chancellor. This object is well achieved, and In an liam, and were not disappointed in the belief that their deeds on the field of battle would not be frittered away on the field of diplomacy, where Prince Bismarck was their spokesman. The legitimate result was the revival of the German Empire. This empire the great chancellor was called upon to defend against foreign nations, and to strengthen within. How he did this, Mr. Lowe describes in the chapters of his second volume on foreign relations, the Kulturkampf, and the domestic affairs of the empire. In his foreign labors he succeeded in winning the hearty friendship of Austria, and the good will of the Russian government, as against the respect of England, the fear of France, and the pleasantest relations with Italy. Within, he fought the memorable fight with the Catholics, a struggle in which he has not succeeded, mainly because he ascribed to the Catholics and the Pope certain sentiments of disloyalty of which they are not guilty. One of the greatest achievements, however, was his reform of the German law and law courts. To this should be added his adoption of a protective tariff, which has made Germany economically independent, and great improvements in the currency, the railway service and the taxes. The fact that nearly all this was achieved against furious opposition on the part of the popular representatives, shows Prince Bismarck to be the strongest statesman of his age. And his personal traits are well presented in Mr. Lowe's concluding chapter, entitled "characteristics." appendix Mr. Lowe gives the principal treaties concluded by Prince Bismarck, together with the constitutions of Prussia and Germany. The work is thoroughly well done, it contains a fair index, two good portraits of its hero, and is free from mere padding. Mr. Lowe writes like a sensible man of the world, who is above mere declamations and stiff rhetoric. No American can read this wonderful record of a very great and wonderful man without being profoundly impressed with the fact that our country, in its constitution as well as its institutions, is the counterpart of Germany rather than of centralized France or feudal England. Let any great question be raised in this country,—be it State rights, local government, taxes, protection, law reform, the currency, trade laws, the bankrupt act, schools and education,-and Germany will present a similar problem. Nor should it be forgotten that while we have been at war with England, Germany, so closely related to us in blood, has always been a friend, and that it is not a mere dream to call Germany, England, America the Teutonic nations to whom history has entrusted the great cause of this century and coming ages, the cause of individual freedom, local rights and empire. Whatever the future, when coming generations will look back upon this century, the events sure to stand out most prominently are the American struggle for personal freedom and the German struggle for unity. And the men whom future centuries will study above all others are Abraham Lincoln, the Emperor of Germany and the great chancellor of whom we now take leave. (Cassell. 2 vols., $5.) Marlborough. From the Philadelphia American. In this, the second volume of the series of “English Worthies," edited by Mr. Andrew Lang, Mr. Saintsbury relates concisely, and with considerable spirit, the story of the career of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. Biographies of him, some of them much more expanded than this, are already in existence,-one by Archdeacon Coxe, who used whitewash heroically, though without avail; a compact volume by Mrs. Creighton (London, 1879), sketching the history of England and of Europe, as Marlborough was concerned with it; and others by Lediard and Sir Archibald Alison. What the present author sets out to do is "to attempt a portrait of Marlborough's life and character," with but a small degree of attention to the historical surroundings and background. Mr. Saintsbury declines at the outset to undertake to justify Marlborough's character in those particulars where it appeared worst. . . . That Marlborough basely deserted James II., and then while professing loyalty to William, began new intrigues with James; that he committed the almost unbelievable offence of sending to France details of the proposed expedition against Brest, by means of which the French had time to fully prepare and to then beat off the English with frightful slaughter; that he intrigued afterward with the Stuart pretenders to the throne; and that he was avaricious and covetous, selfish and shifting, Mr. Saintsbury thinks the facts sufficiently show, and that no denial could affect. He does not undertake to justify these lapses, but he points out that one excuse for them is to be found "in the undoubted fact of the total debasement of the moral standard among the political men of his time." Except Halifax (Savile), and Somers, he cannot recall a single public man of the period, of genius and prominence, who was not "corrupt or rotten." All of them "ratted and rallied" from side to side, or took the pay of the French king as the price of betraying their own country's interests. It is a nice picture, to be sure, and that it should be the only way of giving a comparatively decent certificate to so great a figure in English history as the hero of Blenheim, Ramillies, and Malplaquet, only proves how military reputation may be divorced from every other sort of honor. Incidentally, Mr. Saintsbury has to deal with the representations of Macaulay concerning Marlborough, and it is satisfactory to note that he is apparently well advised of the estimate which has been placed upon that rhetorical and untrustworthy writer of "history." That he abused Marlborough in excess of the warrant of fact, as he did every man whom he disliked, there is no doubt, and Mr. Saintsbury, who is doubtless familiar with the searching and trenchant criticisms of Macaulay, in reference to this and other matters, by Mr. John Paget, in his "New Examen," warns his readers that they will err if they accept the entirely black estimate which the so-called historian offers them. (Appleton. 75 c.) |