RECOLLECTIONS OF BISMARCK.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8189, 2 August 1912, Page 3

RECOLLECTIONS OF BISMARCK.

,iiy recollection of Bismarck, when I used Co see a good deal of him at Frankfort be fore ho was a great man. wrote Mr Labouchere. in "Truth” in 1879, is that he was a very gross feeder; indeed, I onoe saw him devour a fish that smelt so high that it almost made everyone else in the room sick. And then his hands were always filthy, and ho used to paddle them in his piate in a most unpleasant manner. Except for these peculiarities, he was a vcr v agreable man, talking, it is true, thirteen to tho dozen, but with a sort of clever, reckless, dare-devil air. As a statesman. I suspect his reputation is exaggerated. He is an aristocratic Danton; "do Pantince” has proved a winning card for him, and his successes have been three-parts iuck and one-part skill. Proceeding l . Mr .abouebere sold Bismarck’s weak point BeeTnfl to bo that ho cannot exist without nourishing a rabid hatred against somebody or something, which warps hla Judgment. "First, it was tho Liberals, then the French then the TJltramontanea and now it some to ■he tho Socialists.” Of all the Bismarcklan remarks chronicled by Busch tho most useful Is that roasted oysters sprinkled over before roasting with breadcrumbs and Parmesan cheese are excellent. Try them my friends and be Miankful to the-German Chancellor.