He lies buried, not among his ancestors and kinsfolk near the old house at Schoenhausen, nor in the Imperial city where his work had been done; but in a solitary tomb at Friedrichsruh to which, with scanty state and hasty ceremony, his body had been borne.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 1:  There seems no authority for the statement that the Bismarcks had sprung from a noble Bohemian family.]

[Footnote 2:  It is to this visit that a well-known anecdote refers; having landed at Hull one Sunday morning, he was walking along the streets whistling, when a chance acquaintance of the voyage asked him to desist.  Disgusted, he left the town.  The story, as generally told, says that he went to Edinburgh; we can have no doubt that Scarborough was meant.]

[Footnote 3:  Life of Herr v.  Thadden-Triglaff, by Eleanor, Princess of Reuss.]

[Footnote 4:  This trait is confirmed by Busch, who in his record of the conversations of Bismarck observes that with one or two exceptions he seldom had a good word to say for his colleagues.]

[Footnote 5:  I take the metaphor from Gerlach, but the English language does not allow me to adopt the whole.]

[Footnote 6:  Kohl prints a memorandum of this year (1861) which probably is that sent to Herr von Below; in it the ideas of the letter are developed at greater length and the language is more cautious; Bismarck recommends in it a representation of the people at the Diet, but points out that under present circumstances the consent of the Diet could not be attained; the plan to which he seems to incline is that of a separate union between some of the States; exactly the plan which Radowitz had followed and Bismarck had ten years before so bitterly opposed.]

[Footnote 7:  Speech of January 28, 1886.]

[Footnote 8:  The complication of offices became most remarkable when Bismarck in later years undertook the immediate direction of trade.  He became Minister of Finance for Prussia; and we have a long correspondence which he carries on with himself in his various capacities of Prussian Minister, Prussian representative in the Council, and Chancellor of the Empire.]

[Footnote 9:  Sybel states that this was not the case.]

[Footnote 10:  Some of the more exaggerated statements were contradicted at the time, apparently by Prince Radziwill, but in the excitement of the moment no one paid attention to this.]

[Footnote 11:  Comte Herisson d’Herisson, Journal d’un officier d’ordonnance.]

[Footnote 12:  The Ghibellines were expelled from Italy in 1267, when Conradin of Hohenstaufen was beheaded by Charles of Anjou.]

[Footnote 13:  Our knowledge of this treaty is still very incomplete; even the date is not certain, but it seems most probable that it was executed at this time.  Neither Bismarck’s own memoirs nor Busch’s book throw any light upon it.]