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THE LOVE-LETTERS OF BISMARCK.

O those who have thought of Bismarck in no other light than as the Iron Chancellor, the creator of German unity, the mentor of emperors, "The Love-Letters of Bismarck" will disclose a new and unexpected aspect. These letters date from December, 1846, when a letter was sent by him to Herr von Puttkamer, asking for the hand of the latter's daughter Johanna. This letter seems to have been written to remove a certain amount of disfavor with which the writer's suit was looked upon; for he goes to great length in giving information about himself. He admits having formerly held skeptical views, but assures his correspondent that a great change has come over his religious opinions, and that he is now a sincere believer in Christianity and the efficacy of prayer. The reply to this letter left the ultimate decision of Herr von Puttkamer in doubt, while inviting the young man to visit him in Reinfeld. As the result of this visit, Bismarck's personality at close range overcame all objections, and he gained his heart's desire.

The first letter to Fraulein von Puttkamer is prosaic; indeed, it treats of the miscarriage of some sausages, and is not especially interesting. Judging from subsequent letters, her coming into his life wrought a great change in him. Writing to her April

28, 1847, in a tone of regret for his past, he says:

"I was full to overflowing of anguish and remorse as I recalled the lazy indifference and the blind mania for pleasure in which I had squandered all the abundant gifts of youth, talent, fortune, and health, without purpose and without result, until I looked to you, my beloved, to receive into the haven of your unprofaned heart the wretch whose rich cargo I in my pride had recklessly thrown overboard."

In another letter we find him saying in the same strain: "Pictures of my wild past life arose in me as tho they would banish me from you."

We see the love of the linguist in his way of addressing his adored one. At one time he calls her, "Mon adorei Jeanneton," at another time "Giovanna Mia," "Jeanne la Mechante," or "Dearest, only beloved Juanita"; and he makes it evident that the Fraulein was a brunette of a most decided type, for he salutes her as “Jeanna le noir” and “Black Sun." Anent this latter epithet he queries: "How can black give light?" and answers: "Only in the form of polished ebony or lava. Smooth and hard as that you are not; therefore my metaphor of the black sun is false. Are you not rather a dark, warm summer night, with fragrance of flowers and heat lightning?"

Fraulein von Puttkamer's letters begin to increase in size, and Bismarck comments thus: "When I saw your letter the first time it was one page long; the next time it was two; and now it is three. Let it keep on growing until it comes to be as big as a volume." The young lady seems to have had occasional fits of gloom. It is evident that she let some expression of doubt of her lover escape her, for we find him writing in reply:

"You are right, my heart, mistrust is the bitterest, most terrible torment. . . . Somewhere it is written; He who does not love his neighbor whom he sees, how shall he love God whom he does not see? I should like to say the same thing in reference to confidence instead of love. We have even in the distrustful legal system the adage, Let every one be regarded as good until he is shown to be bad. So, then, if you wish to be nothing more than a hard-hearted judge with reference to me, you see you should trust me until you have learned by experience that I deserve mistrust. But if you love me, you should forgive me seven times seventy times, even if I have actually sinned against you." In the same letter:

"I am really at war with myself as to whether or no, assuming that the danger from ice and water has passed by the 3d of

March, I shall postpone the sessions which I have after that and employ the time up to the 20th in going to see you, my heart. . . . That which opposes itself to this plan is a being I know little about otherwise-it is avarice, the root of all evil. This winter I have bothered myself somewhat more than usual about the care of the poor in this neighborhood, and have found sufferings that could not be worse, if not in my village, at least in the neighboring town of Jerichow. When I think how one dollar helps along such a hunger-stricken family for weeks, it seems to me almost like a theft from the poor who are hungry and cold if I spend thirty dollars to make the journey."

She expresses regret for a letter she has written him. He reassures her and in his reply says:

"I found nothing in it that was not dear to me, or that could have been dearer. And were it otherwise [that is, if there had been faults], where should you in future find a breast on which to disburden your own of that which oppresses it, if not with me? Who is more bound by his duty, who is more justified in sharing suffering and anxiety with you, bearing your sicknesses, your faults, than I who have obeyed my impulse to do this voluntarily, without being compelled to it through the obligation of relationship or other duty? . . . Trust me unreservedly in the conviction that I accept everything that comes from you with a deep love that may be either glad or patient. Do not keep your gloomy thoughts for yourself while you look on me with cheerful brow and merry eyes, but share with me in word and look what you have in your heart, whether it be blessing or sorrow."

We glean from the pages before us how varied and extensive has been his reading. He quotes from Byron and Moore, with here and there a quotation in the Italian and French languages. He confesses to being superstitious, for on one occasion, as he was about to break the seal of a letter just received from the young lady, an old English clock he possessed stopped suddenly. He has also had a dream which causes him much disquietude. In his next letter to her he mentions the circumstance of the "old calamitous clock," and entreats: "Write me immediately that you are well and in good spirits. I had such a hateful dream, that Moritz had said to you that it was all up with us, for we were lost together because my faith was not correct and firm, and you shoved me into the rolling sea from the plank which I had seized in the shipwreck, because you feared it would not support us both, and you turned from me and I was once more as I used to be, only poorer by loss of a hope and of a friend. When I woke up, I smiled with the accepted lover's complacency." Fraulein von Puttkamer is exercised about her own reticence, and asks whether a locked or secretive heart is a very bad thing. His answer is somewhat qualified. He writes:

"The dividing line between reticence and deceit, or even untruthfulness, it is not always easy to draw, and every one must adopt a rule of conduct that he can justify in his own experience. In ordinary intercourse, politeness imposes dissimulations enough, and a certain perfection in these seems to me very desirable. Toward those who are greatly troubled and anxious when we are sick our love leads us to employ such dissimulation, to spare them pain; still oftener a lack of confidence is the occasion in cases where this is regarded very unfavorably, particularly toward parents. Most mothers shed secret tears during the period when they must perceive that their children gradually-perhaps against their wish, and with struggles to secure the contrary result-loosen the ties which bind them to her heart, and become colder and more reserved even toward her who formerly directed or knew every emotion of the childish spirit. This constitutes a new fall of man, or a sort of reproduction, in the experience of every child, of our first parents' transgression, in that the child comes to take the view that it must cover its nakedness from its mother, and so veils itself."

Characteristics of all his letters is the cheerful strain in which he speaks of events with evident pains to counteract the pessimism of his inamorata, who apparently is a young lady who "borrows trouble." He writes her a sermon on cheerfulness and says: "If 'fairest things soonest fleet and die,' then that is a reason the more for not spoiling the time while they are yours by self-torment about the possibility of their loss; be thankful for them rather and receptive." In his last letter, written before marriage, Bismarck deplores the fact that when the bans were cried in Shönhausen he could remember but two of her names. "The other six," he writes, "you must teach me better. Farewell, my heart!"

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"The Cyclops, Polyphemus, son of Neptune and Thoösa, dwelt alone in a cavern on the slopes of Mount Etna, and passionately loved the nymph Galatea. But she loved, and was loved by, the beautiful shepherd boy, Acis, and sported with him on the mountain and in the sea. Polyphemus, in a transport of ungovernabie jealousy, sought to destroy both by hurling on them a rock torn from the flanks of Etna. But the gods interposed, and changed Galatea into a mermaid and Acis into a hillside stream, so that the twain might never be separated."

The lyrical touches in the poem are centered about Galatea and Acis. Here is Galatea's song of invitation to Acis :

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Entangle my tresses and catch in my kirtle;
Onward where cistus and cyclamen mingle,
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Down to the dip where the brook bends and bab-
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The water-hen nests, and her callow brood dabbles;
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Follow me, follow, my light-footed lover!
Thence to the open where sunlight is sweeter,
And there Ave will prove which is lither and
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Past the bruised rosemary look for and find me;
Track me and trace by the fragrance behind me.
See! I am breathless; so hither, and hold me,
And close to your tenderness fondle and fold me.
This is the oldest and sweetest of blisses,
To be followed, and caught, and pay forfeit of
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So follow me, follow!"

The following lines are Acis's call to the sleeping Galatea :

"Wake, Galatea, now wake from your dreaming! On beach and on breaker the moonlight is streaming.

Down in the lucent tide mermaids are singing, And the seaweed above them is swaying and swinging!

Melody rises and rolls through the shingle, Where sweet wave and salt wave have meeting and mingle.

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Float we and flow we, but moved by its motion,
Till we and the moonlight are one with the ocean.
Wake, Galatea!"

Polyphemus, meditating on the love of Galatea
and Acis, bemoans his own lot as follows:
"Now is the hour when most I feel how lone
It is to be a bastard of the gods,

Not wholly human, yet not quite divine,
Celestially fathered, yet shut out
From the serene of Heaven! . . . .
Nymphs as fair as she

Whom strenuous Neptune forcibly bewitched
To be my mother, willingly to me

In adolescent days subdued their hearts

And sported with my strength, for I could bear,
Aye, and could carry still, their flimsy forms
Straight up the lava-loops, and let them gaze
Into the jaws of Etna! That sleek pair,
Who flout me with their fondlings, I could ride
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The various isle, plain, pasture, promontory,

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July 10.-Mail advices in London state that in the recent fight at Ulakfontein 174 men were put out of action, and the British forces were compelled to retreat.

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July 12. King Charles of Portugal, in the presence of the Portuguese Cabinet Ministers and others, inaugurates an international meteorological observatory at Porta del Gada, in the Azores.

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J. P. Morgan purchases the Chilian section of the Transandine Railroad.

July 14. A monument to Commodore Perry is unveiled at Kurihana, American and Japanese warships taking part in the ceremony.

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July 8.-Frederick D. White, son of Ambassador Andrew D. White, commits suicide at his home in Syracuse.

Eighteen separate meetings take place at the Christian Endeavor Convention in Cincinnati; the Rev. Dr. M. J. Kleine is elected president of the Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor Union.

In a race at Newport the Constitution beats the Columbia by three miles and the Independence by nine miles.

July 9-The Chinese Government files an indemity claim for $500,000 against the United States on account of alleged outrages on Chinese in Butte, Mont., in 1886.

The National Educational Association begins its annual sessions in Detroit.

July 10.-Fourteen are killed and many injured in a train collision on the Chicago and Alton Railroad about one hundred miles east of Kansas City.

The Ohio Democratic State Convention, at Columbus, nominates a ticket headed by Colonel James Kilbourne for governor, and repudiates Bryan and the Kansas City platform.

The greatest heat ever officially recorded in Chicago is registered by the government thermometer, the temperature reaching 100 degrees.

July 11.-South Carolina brings suit against the Government for the return of all the liquor taxes collected in the State since the dispensary law went into effect.

Alfred B. Kittredge is appointed to succeed the late United States Senator Kyle by the governor of South Dakota.

Several thousand steel workers are still out on strike; a conference at Pittsburg between employers and men is fruitless. July 12.- Secretary Hay receives assurance from every government concerned that the invitation to the Pan-American Congress has been accepted in good faith. Drouth prevails in the Western States; in Kansas the almost total destruction of the corn crop is reported.

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