CHAPTER V. FRANKFORT, 1851-1857................................... 86 CHAPTER VI. ST. PETERSBURG AND PARIS, 1858-1862................... 127 CHAPTER VII. THE CONFLICT, 1862-1863............................... 162 CHAPTER VIII. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, 1863-1864......................... 192 CHAPTER IX. THE TREATY OF GASTEIN, 1864-1865................... ...226 CHAPTER X. OUTBREAK OF WAR WITH AUSTRIA, 1865-1866................240 CHAPTER XI. THE CONQUEST OF GERMANY, 1866..........................259 CHAPTER XII. THE FORMATION OF THE NORTH GERMAN CONFEDERATION, 1866-1867..............................................291 CHAPTER XIII. THE OUTBREAK OF WAR WITH FRANCE, 1867-1870.............315 CHAPTER XIV. THE WAR WITH FRANCE AND FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE, 1870-1871..................................346 CHAPTER XV. THE NEW EMPIRE, 1871-1878..............................377 CHAPTER XVI. THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE AND ECONOMIC REFORM, 1878-1887 ....405 CHAPTER XVII. RETIREMENT AND DEATH, 1887-1898........................440 INDEX..................................................465 ILLUSTRATIONS. BISMARCK _Frontispiece_ [From a painting by F. Von Lenbach.] BISMARCK'S COAT OF ARMS..................................2 SCHÖNHAUSEN CHURCH--INTERIOR.............................6 LUISE WILHELMINE VON BISMARCK...........................10 Bismarck's Mother. KARL WILHELM FERD. VON BISMARCK.........................12 Bismarck's Father. BISMARCK IN 1834........................................18 SCHÖNHAUSEN CASTLE......................................26 BISMARCK IN 1848........................................66 PRINCESS BISMARCK.......................................88 BISMARCK IN 1860.......................................130 GENERAL VON ROON.......................................140 EMPEROR WILLIAM I......................................162 EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH.................................194 BISMARCK...............................................214 [From a painting by F. Von Lenbach.] GENERAL VON MOLTKE.....................................248 THE CAPITULATION OF SEDAN..............................250 [From a painting by Anton Von Werner.] BISMARCK AND HIS DOGS..................................288 NAPOLEON III. AND BISMARCK ON THE MORNING AFTER THE BATTLE OF SEDAN..............................352 [From a painting by Wilhelm Camphausen.] KING WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA PROCLAIMED EMPEROR OF GERMANY, VERSAILLES, JANUARY 18, 1871...............370 [From a painting by Anton Von Werner.] LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS...................................372 OFFICIAL RESIDENCE OF BISMARCK IN BERLIN...............388 THE CONGRESS OF BERLIN, 1878...........................406 [From a painting by Anton Von Werner.] FRIEDRICHSRUHE.........................................430 [From a photograph by Strumper & Co., Hamburg.] EMPEROR FREDERICK......................................446 SARCOPHAGUS OF EMPEROR WILLIAM I., CHARLOTTENBURG......454