Bismarck.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2048, 22 August 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Bismarck.

BiiMvncK is the greatest figure whioh hn* appeared in the statesmanship of Europe since Kiohelieu, and he carries with him all the outward signs of majesty and power in a greater degree than any per?.ona^o of his time. He is taller than the late Czar Nicholas, has a head the size of Webster's and a breadth and massiveness of body equal to those of the late General Scott. When he enters the Reichstag it is like the entrance of Jupiter among the hierarchy of Olympus. His eyebrows are thick, white and overhanging; his moustache, likewise enow white, and, as a recent correspondent describes him, " his face is covered with folds and wrinkles, broad ringe) surround his eyes, and even his forehead is drawn into minute corrugations like the skin upon a withered apple. Hiß head is naked of hair and chines like a dome of polished ivory. His eyes have a cold and somewhat cruel expression, and when he begins to speak the color of his face changes from pale to red, and gradually assumes a light bronze shado which gives his powerful skull the appearance of burnished metal." His voice is Boft, almost weak, and when he has spoken for a while it grows somewhat hoarse. He speaks rapidly or with deliberation, according to his mood, but never in* * loud voice ; is courteous, though sometimes ironical in manner and gives token of his rising wrath, which ia frequently excited by his opponents, rather by the swelling of the huge veins in his neck and by clutching at the collar of his uniform than by any furious rhetorical outburst. He makes the memoranda for his speeches on loose sheets of quarto paper with pencils more than a foot long aud the words which ho jots down with them and utters in so soft; a tone have the weight of cannon balls. The old Chancellor draws now to the end of hi? career : his imperial master ia slumbering away the remnant of his hours, and when he passes away, which may be at any time, the work of his mighty minister, the greatest who has ever served the house of Hohenzollern or wrought in the political concerns of the Fatherland, may be regarded as practically accomplished.