. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. and wit, rather represented the heart andmind, without very great claims to strong intellect, or evenknowledge. Strangely enough, the cultivated and literaryCharles Alexander von Bismarck, transformed from a diplo-matist into a cavalry officer by the command of the Great Fred-erick, educated his four sons for the army. This cavalier, of French sentiments, who subscribed to Paris-ian journals, still preserved at Schonhausen—a custom not usualwith the aristocracy of the Marks—and who lived with great sim-plicity, but drank wine, and ate off silver
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. and wit, rather represented the heart andmind, without very great claims to strong intellect, or evenknowledge. Strangely enough, the cultivated and literaryCharles Alexander von Bismarck, transformed from a diplo-matist into a cavalry officer by the command of the Great Fred-erick, educated his four sons for the army. This cavalier, of French sentiments, who subscribed to Paris-ian journals, still preserved at Schonhausen—a custom not usualwith the aristocracy of the Marks—and who lived with great sim-plicity, but drank wine, and ate off silver plate—brought up hissons like centaurs, and his greatest pride was in the excellenceof their horsemanship. Bismarcks father entered the Body-guard (white and blue),the commander of which was also a Bismarck, and, as he oftentold his sons in later times, measured out the corn every morn-ing at four oclock to the men for five long years. He loved acountry life, grew wearied in Berlin, especially when he had HOKSEMANSHIP AND THE CHASE. 109. grown somewhat deaf, but, with chivalrous devotion to his ladywife, conformed to her wishes on this point, Madame von Bismarck, besides esteeming the company of tal-ented persons and scholars, was devoted to chess, of which shewas a complete mistress ; but her husbands amusement was thechase to the end of his life. How strangely the old gentlemanpursued this pastime we learn from a letter of Bismarcks to hisnewly-married sister, in the latter part of 18M; very characteris-tic of the relations maintained by the son and brother. OW you have departed, I have nat-urally found the house very have sat by the stove smoking andcontemplating how unnatural and self-ish it is in girls who have brothers,and those bachelors, to go and reck-lessly marry, and act as if they onlywere in the world to follow their ownsweet wills; a selfish principle fromwhich I feel that our family, and my-self in proper person, are fortunately
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