SEBASTIAN BRANDT 1458-1521 2311

    The Universal Shyp
    Of Hym That Togyder Wyll Serve Two Maysters
    Of To[o] Moche Spekynge or Bablynge

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME V

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Page
Saint Dunstan (Colored Plate) Frontispiece
Bismarck (Portrait) . . . . . . . 1930
“The Surrender at Sedan” (Photogravure) . . 1944
Richard Doddridge Blackmore (Portrait) . . 2012
“Rembrandt and His Wife” (Photogravure) . . 2055
Giovanni Boccaccio (Portrait) . . . . 2090
“The Decameron” (Photogravure) . . . . 2108
“Fatima” (Photogravure) . . . . . . 2120
“Domestic Happiness” (Photogravure) . . . 2206

VIGNETTE PORTRAITS

Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson
William Black
William Blake
Mathilde Blind
Friedrich M. von Bodenstedt
Johann Jakob Bodmer
Boetius
Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux
Gaston Boissier
George H. Boker
George Borrow
Jacques Benigne Bossuet
James Boswell
Paul Bourget
Sir John Bowring
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Georg Brandes
Sebastian Brandt

OTTO EDWARD LEOPOLD VON BISMARCK

(1815-)

BY MUNROE SMITH

Otto Edward Leopold, fourth child of Charles and Wilhelmina von Bismarck, was born at Schoenhausen in Prussia, April 1, 1815.  The family was one of the oldest in the “Old Mark” (now a part of the province of Saxony), and not a few of its members had held important military or diplomatic positions under the Prussian crown.  The young Otto passed his school years in Berlin, and pursued university studies in law (1832-5) at Goettingen and at Berlin.  At Goettingen he was rarely seen at lectures, but was a prominent figure in the social life of the student body:  the old university town is full of traditions of his prowess in duels and drinking bouts, and of his difficulties with the authorities.  In 1835 he passed the State examination in law, and was occupied for three years, first in the judicial and then in the administrative service of the State, at Berlin, Aix-la-Chapelle, and Potsdam.  In 1838 he left the governmental service and studied agriculture at the Eldena Academy.  From his twenty-fourth to his thirty-sixth year (1839-51) his life was that of a country squire.  He took charge at first of property held by his father in Pomerania; upon his father’s death in 1845 he assumed the management of the family estate of Schoenhausen.  Here he held the local offices of captain of dikes and of deputy in the provincial Diet.  The latter position proved a stepping-stone into Prussian and German politics; for when Frederick William IV. summoned the “United Diet” of the kingdom (1847), Bismarck was sent to Berlin as an alternate delegate from his province.