"BISMARCK: ye Stony OF A, Piowten.* By" Emil, Ludwig. Translated rom the German by Eden Cedne Paul, London, Allen and Unwin, Price, 21/ net, After the War for a marek was a broken idol, for the work of his long life seemed to be completely chattered, In the estimation of his disillusioned countrymen the Man of Blood and Iron had become a creature of bluff and irony.
Tt was forgotten that in extreme old age, when the mists of egoism had passed away, and he could even pass judgment on himself like a disinterested observer, he uttered rinings and prophecies in private fall of which had been fulfilled. "If the country is well ruled," he said, when the forest had become his last home, the oracular trees his only friends, "the coming war may be averted; if it be badly ruled, that, War may become a Seven Years' War. The wars of the future will decided by ar be replaced in ease of need; big guns must be made in time of "In Russia," he added, "the coming of a republic is perhaps nearer} than most people imagine." And he had a clear glimpse of a yet further future when he expressed hope and a certainty as' follows: "Perhaps God will send Germany a second era of decay, followed by fresh period of giory—that ill certainly be upon a republican basis, 'To-day, a Germany secretly rebuilds her strength on the concrete bed of an unbroken bureaucracy, Biemarek is once more.a German demigod. 'The appearance last year of Emil Ludwig's monumental "Bis-marek, Geschichte cine' Kampfers, 0 vehement a contrast to the same author's reduction of Wilhelm If, to melodramatic absurdity, was a proof, that he was one more regarded wrought of the rame sound stubborn timber as other German leaders from Luther to Hindenburg. The English version of Ludwig's Life, 'Bismarck; the Story of a' Fighter," which has been made by Eden and Cedar Paul should be read by all who to deduce the future of Germany from her arrogant past and deceptive present, writes Mr. B. Osborn in the "Morning Post"
A German Carlyle There works of Emil Ludwig, including his large and illuminati "Napoleon," are themselves proofs of the new German radio-activity of intellect which is. the outcome of warfare regarded by all patriotic Germans as a vindication of thei country's unconquerable strength. This author makes history an art once mote, instead of a science which dissolves documents into a mass of detail and sifts the dust-heaps of circumstance.
Like Carlyle," he ie" a hero-wor-'¢hipper and dramatizes the work and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.