The article frankly alludes to Count
Herbert’s youthful brawls, to his later in
tngues and to his embroilment with a
woman at Rouen, from which he had to
slash his way with his sword, receiving an
ugly out on the head. The Bismarokiau
contempt for women, accentuated by
this and another intrigue after the war is
represented as the origin of all that is j
baneful in the Bistnarckian character, j
“We shall have no mo,e petticoats med I
dling with politics nw,” was, according
to rumor, the ( xolamation of the exultant
Connt Herbert on the death of Emperor
Frederick.
The article affects to dismiss as mon- '
strons the insinuation of the opponents'
of Prince Bismarck that the chancellor ;
meditated the death of Emperor Freder-|
ick when he insisted that Frederick
should leave San Remo for Berlin, but
depicts the idea that his ascendency
would be menaced by Empress Fred
erick ns a nightmare to the chancellor,
who further saw by Frederick’s refusal to
discuss state affairs with Connt Herbert
that it would be useless to hope that
Herbert would ever be Frederick’s chan
cellor. We could, therefore be surprised ]
the writer asks, had Prince Bismarck
wished the cancer to make haste.
The writer of the article asserts that a |
compact with the present emperor was
the only reason Prince Bismarck had for j
opposing the marriage of Princess Vic
toria with Prince Alexander of Batten
burg.
