[Footnote 5: I take the metaphor from Gerlach, but the English language does not allow me to adopt the whole.] [Footnote 6: Kohl prints a memorandum of this year (1861) which probably is that sent to Herr von Below; in it the ideas of the letter are developed at greater length and the language is more cautious; Bismarck recommends in it a representation of the people at the Diet, but points out that under present circumstances the consent of the Diet could not be attained; the plan to which he seems to incline is that of a separate union between some of the States; exactly the plan which Radowitz had followed and Bismarck had ten years before so bitterly opposed.] [Footnote 7: Speech of January 28, 1886.] [Footnote 8: The complication of offices became most remarkable when Bismarck in later years undertook the immediate direction of trade. He became Minister of Finance for Prussia; and we have a long correspondence which he carries on with himself in his various capacities of Prussian Minister, Prussian representative in the Council, and Chancellor of the Empire.] [Footnote 9: Sybel states that this was not the case.] [Footnote 10: Some of the more exaggerated statements were contradicted at the time, apparently by Prince Radziwill, but in the excitement of the moment no one paid attention to this.] [Footnote 11: Comte Hérisson d'Hérisson, _Journal d'un officier d'ordonnance._] [Footnote 12: The Ghibellines were expelled from Italy in 1267, when Conradin of Hohenstaufen was beheaded by Charles of Anjou.] [Footnote 13: Our knowledge of this treaty is still very incomplete; even the date is not certain, but it seems most probable that it was executed at this time. Neither Bismarck's own memoirs nor Busch's book throw any light upon it.] [Footnote 14: It must be remembered that our knowledge of these events is imperfect and probably inaccurate; it is at least one-sided. It comes entirely from the published statements of those who gained their information directly or indirectly from Bismarck.] INDEX A Alexander, Prince, of Battenberg, 448-450 Army, 295 Arnim, Count, 19-21, 46 Arnim, Oscar von, marries Malvina von Bismarck, 25 Augustenburg, Frederick, Prince of, 202-209, 213-224, 227, 228, 230-237, 246 B Bazaine, Marshal, 361, 373 Benedetti, Count Vincent, 270-272, 275, 277-282, 322, 330-333, 336-338, 340-342 Bennigsen, 392, 394 Berlin, its condition after the Revolution, 47, 50, 51 Bismarck, the family of, its origin and history, 1-12 Bismarck, August von, 5 Bismarck, August von, the Landrath, 8 Bismarck, August Friedrich von, 9 Bismarck, Bernhard von, 11, 22, 23 Bismarck, Carl Alexander von, 9 Bismarck, Friedrich von, the "Permutator," 5 Bismarck, Friedrich Wilhelm von, 9 Bismarck, Herbert von, 347 Bismarck, Herbort von, 2