No man since Luther has been a more complete embodiment of German nationality than Otto von Bismarck. None has stood more conspicuously for racial aspirations, passions, and ideals. The reader will realize, even more than the hearer, that it was not the form of Bismarck’s speeches which swept his audiences off their feet, and often changed a hostile Reichstag or Diet into an assembly of men eager to do his bidding, but that it was his firm grasp on the realities of life and his supreme command of everything which makes for true statesmanship. His policies were not based on snap judgments; they were the result of serious thought. All this showed in his speeches, and made him one of the most powerfully effective speakers of all times. PRINCE OTTO VON BISMARCK. (Pages 1-290) “Bismarck as a National Type.” “The Love Letters of Bismarck.” “Correspondence of William I. and Bismarck.” “From Thoughts and Recollections.” “Bismarck as a Orator.” “Speeches of Prince Bismarck.” “Professional Politics.” “Speech from Throne.” “Alsace-Lorraine a Glasis Against France.” “We shall Never Go to Canossa.” “Bismarck as the “Honest Broker.” “Salus Publica.” “Practical Christianity.” “We Germans Fear God, and Nought Else in the World.” “Mount the Guards at the Warthe and the Vistula.” “Long Live the Emperor and the Empire.” In Moltke, if in any one, the character of the man reveals the character and style of his writings. Mommsen in his address mentioned above, characterized him, as “the man who knew how to describe, as well as how to win, battles, the master of styles in is rare speeches, the cleaver and sympatric investigator of and writer on manifold ethnic life, the scientific explorer of the regions on the rivers Tigris and Euphrates.” And now the style, in the narrower sense. It is natural, limpid, and free from all rhetorical flourishes and wordiness, placing the right word in the right place. Xenophon, Caesar, Goethe, come to mind in reading Moltke’s descriptions, historical expositions, reflections. Something remains to be said about Moltke the correspondent. The letters preserved or published fully justify his being ranked among the best letter writers in German literature. Here, more than elsewhere, the subtle and finer characteristic of the man, the son, the brother, the friends, the gentle and always kindly responsive nature of a thoroughly human and Christian soul are revealed. Above all, however, and side by side with Bismarck’s noble letters to his fiancée and wife, stand Moltke’s charming and devoted letters to Mary Burt von Moltke. COUNT HELMUTH VON MOLTKE. “The Life of Moltke.” “Letters and Historical Writings of Moltke.” “The Political and Military Conditions of the Ottoman Empire in 1836.” “A Trip to Brussa.” “A Journey to Mossul.” “A Bullfight in Spain.” “Description of Moscow.” “Fighting on the Frontier.” “Battle of Gravelotte- St. Privat.” “Consolatory Thoughts on the Earthly Life and a Future Existence.” Lassalle and Max had entirely different functions to perform in the socialist movement. Marx’s part was a to be the prophet in the socialism, not a prophet in the vulgar sense of a mere prognosticator, but in the old Hebrew sense of an inspired voice crying in a wilderness of unbelief. Lassalle was no prophet. His Functions was to reduce principles to action, to enlarge the force of the times in the spirit of the times, and by combat with such weapons as lay to hand to urge the cause forward. The word “agitator” might have been invented for him. He was the first great warrior of socialism. It is no reflection upon Marx to indicate that the present need of the Social Democracy is for warriors rather than for prophets. FERDINAND LASSALLE. “The Life and Work of Ferdinand Lassalle.” “The Workingmen’s Programme.” “Science and the Workingmen.” “Open Letter to the Central Committee.” Keywords: The German Classics Volume 10, Lassalle, Count, von, Moltke, Otto, Bismarck, Mary Burt, workingmen, Prophets, Marx, Brussa, Christian soul, Empire, Letters, Xenophon, Caesar, Goethe, policies, _____________________________

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