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THE LIFE OF BISMARCK, PRIVATE AND POLITICAL.

“Mit Gott für König und Vaterland.”


[Illustration: COUNT OTTO VON BISMARCK.]


THE LIFE OF BISMARCK,
PRIVATE AND POLITICAL;

With Descriptive Notices of His Ancestry.

by

JOHN GEORGE LOUIS HESEKIEL,

Author of “Faust and Don Juan,” etc.

Translated and Edited,
With an Introduction, Explanatory Notes, and Appendices,
by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, F.S.A., F.A.S.L.

With Upward of One Hundred Illustrations by Diez, Grimm,
Pietsch, and Others.






New York:
Harper & Brothers, Publishers,
Franklin Square.
1870.




CONTENTS


    EDITOR’S PREFACE.                                              Page xv

                             Book the First.

                      THE BISMARCKS OF OLDEN TIME.

                               CHAPTER I.

                            NAME AND ORIGIN.

    Bismarck on the Biese.—The Bismarck Louse.—Derivation of the
