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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 12 September 1891, Page 360

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Prince Bismarck declares that he wishes it might be possible for him to travel about Germany without attractin'' attention. ‘My ideal is,’he one day said, ‘to be able to walk about Hamburg without seeing a single head turned to look at me.’ Such a declaration is full of a simple and sweet humility, but it is a question whether the Prince would not regret the incense of public recognition if he were really deprived of it. r A natural wish to avoid being mobbed by the vulgar herd has almost become a monomania with the poet Tennyson. Yet even he is capable of a pang when the annoyance is denied him. One day he was taking a country walk with a friend, when a man was espied in the distance. ‘We must turn back,’ said the poet. ‘ That fellow means to waylay us.’ His companion, however, persuaded him to continue bis walk. They overtook the enemy, and passed him ;he took not the least notice of them. ‘ What an extraordinary thing I ’ cried the irate poet. ‘ The fellow seems to have no idea who I am I’