Correspondence of William I. and Bismarck. Translated by J.A. Ford. From "Thoughts and Recollections." Translated under the supervision of A.J. Butler. Bismarck as an Orator. By Edmund von Mach. Speeches of Prince Bismarck. Translated by Edmund von Mach: Professorial Politics Speech from the Throne Alsace-Lorraine a Glacis Against France We Shall Never Go to Canossa! Bismarck as the "Honest Broker" Salus Publica--Bismarck's Only Lode-Star Practical Christianity We Germans Fear God, and Nought Else in the World Mount the Guards at the Warthe and the Vistula! Long Live the Emperor and the Empire! Count Helmuth Von Moltke The Life of Moltke. By Karl Detlev Jessen. Letters and Historical Writings of Moltke: The Political and Military Conditions of the Ottoman Empire in 1836. Translated by Edmund von Mach. A Trip to Brussa. Translated by Edmund von Mach. A Journey to Mossul. Translated by Edmund von Mach. A Bullfight in Spain. Translated by Edmund von Mach. Description of Moscow. Translated by Grace Bigelow. The Peace Movement. Translated by Edmund von Mach. Fighting on the Frontier. Translated by Clara Bell and Henry W. Fischer. Battle of Gravelotte--St. Privat. Translated by Clara Bell and Henry W. Fischer. Consolatory Thoughts on the Earthly Life and a Future Existence. Translated by Mary Herms. Ferdinand Lassalle The Life and Work of Ferdinand Lassalle. By Arthur N. Holcombe. The Workingmen's Programme. Translated by E.H. Babbitt. Science and the Workingmen. Translated by Thorstein B. Veblen. Open Letter to the Central Committee. Translated by E.H. Babbitt. ILLUSTRATIONS--VOLUME X Bismarck Meeting Napoleon after the Battle of Sedan Prince Bismarck. By Franz von Lenbach Prince Bismarck. By Franz von Lenbach Princess Bismarck Coronation of King William I at Königsberg. By Adolph von Menzel Emperor William I. By Franz von Lenbach King William's Departure for the Front at the Beginning of the Franco-German War. By Adolph von Menzel Prince Bismarck. By Franz von Lenbach The Berlin Congress. By Anton von Werner Prince Bismarck. By Franz von Lenbach The Bismarck Monument at Hamburg. By Lederer William I on his Deathbed. By Anton von Werner Moltke. By Anton von Werner Count Moltke Moltke at Sedan. By Anton von Werner King William at the Mausoleum of his Parents on the Day of the French Declaration of War. By Anton von Werner The Capitulation of Sedan. By Anton von Werner Ferdinand Lassalle The Iron Foundry. By Adolph von Menzel Flax Barn in Laren. By Max Liebermann * * * * * BISMARCK AS A NATIONAL TYPE[1] BY KUNO FRANCKE, PH.D., LL.D., Litt.D. Professor of the History of German Culture, Harvard University. No man since Luther has been a more complete embodiment of German nationality than Otto von Bismarck. None has been closer to the German heart. None has stood more conspicuously for racial aspirations, passions, ideals. It is the purpose of the present sketch to bring out a few of these affinities between Bismarck and the German people. I Perhaps the most obviously Teutonic trait in Bismarck's character is its martial quality. It would be preposterous, surely, to claim warlike distinction as a prerogative of the German race. Russians, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Americans, undoubtedly, make as good fighters as Germans. But it is not an exaggeration to say that there is no country in the world where the army is as enlightened or as popular an institution as it is in Germany. The German army is not composed of hirelings of professional fighters whose business it is to pick quarrels, no matter with whom. It is, in the strictest sense of the word, the people in arms. Among its officers there is a large percentage of the intellectual élite...