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"WAIT AND SEE" CONCLUSION EPILOGUE THE PRUSSIAN TERROR BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS A FIRST TRANSLATION FROM THE FRENCH BY R.S. GARNETT WITH AN INTRODUCTION LONDON: STANLEY PAUL & CO PHILADELPH…
BERLIN The architect of Berlin appears to have carefully designed his plan according to line and rule in order to produce a capital of dullness as far removed from the picturesque as his ingenuity co…
THE HOUSE OF HOHENZOLLERN The immense crowd surrounding the young Frenchman remained for a moment dumb with stupefaction. Many, not understanding French, failed to comprehend his meaning, and others …
COUNT VON BISMARCK Many have sought, and some profess to have found, the reasons for the remarkable royal favour enjoyed by Count Bismarck, but the chief, and to our thinking the only one, is the ext…
IN WHICH BISMARCK EMERGES FROM AN IMPOSSIBLE POSITION Now for three months past Bismarck had been in an impossible position, and no one could predict how he would emerge from it. Notwithstanding the …
A SPORTSMAN AND A SPANIEL On the day following the events just narrated, a young man about twenty-five years of age arrived in Brunswick by the eleven o'clock train from Berlin. Leaving his lugg…
BENEDICT TURPIN Lenhart, in his double capacity of hackney coachman and purveyor of travellers and tourists for the Hôtel Royal, Hanover, was well known to Mr. Stephen, landlord thereof, who gave him…
KAULBACH'S STUDIO Benedict lost no time in leaving his note at the "Gazette" office, and his letter of introduction at Kaulbach's studio, where he left also his card on which was …
THE CHALLENGE Benedict's prediction was duly fulfilled. He had hardly opened his eyes the next morning when Lenhart, who had assumed the duties of valet, appeared, bearing a magnificent silver s…
THE TWO DUELS "Engage, gentlemen!" cried the colonel. Von Bülow's sword swept through the air with a flash like lightning. But, rapid though it was, it descended in empty space. Warned…
