Library of the Worlds Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 5 | Page 2

1823-1890 2163
The Black Regiment The Sword-Bearer Sonnets
SAINT BONAVENTURA 1221-1274 2169
BY THOMAS DAVIDSON
On the Beholding of God in His Footsteps in This Sensible World
GEORGE BORROW 1803-1881 2175
BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE
At the Horse-Fair ('Lavengro') A Meeting ('The Bible in Spain')
JUAN BOSCAN 1493-?1540 2203
On the Death of Garcilaso A Picture of Domestic Happiness ('Epistle to
Mendoza')
JACQUES BÉNIGNE BOSSUET 1627-1704 2209
BY ADOLPHE COHN
From the Sermon upon 'The Unity of the Church' Opening of the
Funeral Oration on Henrietta of France From the 'Discourse upon
Universal History' Public Spirit in Rome
JAMES BOSWELL 1740-1795 2227
BY CHARLES F. JOHNSON

An Account of Corsica A Tour to Corsica The Life of Samuel Johnson
PAUL BOURGET 1852- 2252
The American Family ('Outre-Mer') The Aristocratic Vision of M.
Renan ('Study of M. Renan')
SIR JOHN BOWRING 1792-1872 2263
The Cross of Christ Watchman! What of the Night? Hymn From Luis
de Gongora: Not All Nightingales From John Kollar: Sonnet From
Bogdanovich (Old Russian): Song From Bobrov: The Golden Palace
From Dmitriev: The Dove and The Stranger From Sarbiewski:
Sapphics to A Rose
HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN 1848-1895 2272
A Norwegian Dance ('Gunnar')
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON 1837- 2279
Advent of the Hirelings ('The Christmas Hirelings') "How Bright She
Was--" etc. ('Mohawks')
GEORG BRANDES 1842- 2299
BY WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE
Björnson ('Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century') The Historical
Movement in Modern Literature ('Main Currents in the Literature of the
Nineteenth Century')
SEBASTIAN BRANDT 1458-1521 2311
The Universal Shyp Of Hym That Togyder Wyll Serve Two Maysters
Of To[o] Moche Spekynge or Bablynge

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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) . . .
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VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
Björnstjerne Björnson William Black William Blake Mathilde Blind
Friedrich M. von Bodenstedt Johann Jakob Bodmer Boëtius Nicholas
Boileau-Despréaux Gaston Boissier George H. Boker George Borrow
Jacques Bénigne 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 Schönhausen 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 Göttingen and at Berlin. At Göttingen 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 Schönhausen. 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.
The next three years were full of events. The revolution of 1848 forced
all the German sovereigns who had thus far retained absolute power,
among them the King of Prussia, to grant representative constitutions to
their people. The same year witnessed the initiation of a great popular
movement for the unification of Germany. A national Parliament was
assembled at Frankfort, and in 1849 it offered to the King of Prussia the
German imperial crown; but the constitution it had drafted was so
democratic, and the opposition of the German princes so great, that
Frederick William felt obliged to refuse the offer. An attempt was then
made, at a Parliament held in Erfurt, to establish a "narrower Germany"
under Prussian leadership; but this movement also came to nothing.
The Austrian government, paralyzed for a time by revolts in its