As Napoleon was to the latter end of the first half of this century so has Bismarck" been to this final portion—the greatest man of the age. Of Gladstone when he died it was said that he was the greatest Englishman of the century—saving Pitt; for Bismarck I think we may fairly claim that he hay been the greatest man of the century, saving Napoleon the Great. That the Into Emperor William I, grandfather of the present Kaiser, owed' much of hi wonderful success during his long. Ta ign to his Chancellor he himself was the first to admit and nobly he rewarded him for his able statesmanship.. Had it not been for 'Bismarck, who recognised that the hour had come to strike, the Franco-Prussian war would never have taken place when it did, and an important page of the world's history might never have been written. 'The' Man of Tron and Blood, who is said to have feared God but nothing else in the world, saw all the probable advantages' that might accrue to Germany from immediate action and the result of his foresight, as all the world knows, was 8 glorious victory, which entailed the re-ainting ofa portion of the map of Europe.
heating of his death the Kaiser ni once telegraphed offering a state funeral and burial in the Cathedral at Berlin, but this, having regard to his well-known wishes, his son refused. A new mauso-Toum is being erected at Friedrichsruhe and there on its completion, in about two months' time, he will be buried with great simplicity and the body of the Into Prin-warch which is now buried at Il_be' removed to Friedrichstuhe in order that they may' be side by side. In the meantime the body of the late Chaticellor has been embalmed and a temporary' mortuary chapel has been arranged at his Jate residence where for the present his remains will res'. It is stated that Prince Bismarck left instructions that his gravestone should bear the following inscription
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