Transcriber's note: Italic font is indicated by _underscores_. Bolded and underlined words are indicated by =equals=. BISMARCK SOME SECRET PAGES OF HIS HISTORY [Illustration] BISMARCK SOME SECRET PAGES OF HIS HISTORY BEING A DIARY KEPT BY DR. MORITZ BUSCH DURING TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE INTERCOURSE WITH THE GREAT CHANCELLOR _IN THREE VOLUMES_ VOL. I =London= MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1898 _All rights reserved_ RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BUNGAY. _Copyright in the United States of America._ NOTE The English edition of Dr. Busch’s work which we publish to-day has been translated from the original German text in the possession of the publishers. A few passages have, however, been omitted as defamatory, or otherwise unsuitable for publication. Dr. Busch contemplated incorporating bodily in the first volume a reproduction of his earlier work: _Prince Bismarck and his People during the Franco-German War_; but while the many valuable additions which he made to it have been preserved, such portions as would no longer have presented any special interest for English readers have been considerably abridged. PREFACE