PRINCE BISMARCK AT HOME.

Evening Star, Issue 6762, 29 November 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

PRINCE BISMARCK AT HOME.

The German magazine * Unsere Zeit,' in the course of a lengthy article on the great Chancellor's home, supplies the following interesting particulars:—" The forest estate, Fricdrichsruhe, where the Prince resides, is situated between Berlin and Hamburg, and was the Emperor William's present. The Prince's study is a very large room, with several mahogany tables well able to bear large loads of manuscripts and documents. The windows look towards the south, and closo to them stands an enormous writing desk, with an uncomfortable chair that has no back to it. A bronze inkstand, blue sand, and paper are the only implements, besides a goose quill, the only kind of pen ever used by the Chancellor, who abhors steel pens. In a corner of the window recess, just opposite the Chancellor's seat, stands a bureau, above which hangs the Emperor's portrait. At the other end of the room, where the light from the windows does not well penetrate, stand several couches and armchairs, in which Bismarck loves to rest, with a pipe in his mouth, and deep thought on his earnest brow. The walls of this sanctum are decorated with portraits of the Chancellor's only daughter. Countess Rantzaii, Princess Bismarck, and Counts Herbert and William. In a dark corner stands a small card-table, which Bismarck brought home from the Franco-German war. On it was signed the peace between Germany and France, February 26, 1871. The suite tf apartments in which Prince Bismarck receives company is large and luxurious when compared with that part of the house which is devoted exclusively to the use of the family. The dining-room can accommodate thirty guests. Its walls are decorated with seven views of landscapes In : Friedrichsruhe. What we consider the most remarkable object in the whole house is a large bronze cast of the Niederwald monument, which stands on an oak cabinet in the Btnokingroom, and to which is attached a sheet of note-paper, with following inscription in the aged Emperor's own hand: " Christmas, 1883. The keyßtone of your polioy;,a ceremony which was chiefly dedicated, to you, and at which you could, I am sorry to say, not be present.—W."