. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. he becameMinister-President; andthough he now prefersto live on his Pomera-nian estates to those inthe Alt Mark, duringhis days of retirementthis does not occur from any want of affection for his old home,but from a feeling of delicacy towards his father-in-law, now avenerable man almost eighty years of age, but still fresh andhale, who lives in the vicinity of Varzin, and also because hefinds in Pomerania three things for which he would seek in vainat Schonhausen. The forest is not at Schonhausen close roundthe house, as at Yarzin, for at Schonh
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. he becameMinister-President; andthough he now prefersto live on his Pomera-nian estates to those inthe Alt Mark, duringhis days of retirementthis does not occur from any want of affection for his old home,but from a feeling of delicacy towards his father-in-law, now avenerable man almost eighty years of age, but still fresh andhale, who lives in the vicinity of Varzin, and also because hefinds in Pomerania three things for which he would seek in vainat Schonhausen. The forest is not at Schonhausen close roundthe house, as at Yarzin, for at Schonhausen he has an hours rideto reach the wood, and the forest he loves as an old friend. Thegame about Schonhausen is also almost entirely destroyed, andthe heavy wheat soil there is either flat and hard, or cloddy, andtherefore little fitted for riding. Bismarck, as he ever was, re-mains a great horseman and a zealous sportsman. The marriage of Bismarck has been blessed with three chil-dren—Mary Elizabeth Johanna, born the 21st August. 1848,. CHILDREN. 151 at Schonhausen ; Nicolas Ferdinand Herbert, born the 28th De-cember, 1849, at Berlin; William Otto Albert, born the 1st Au-gust, 1852, at Frankfurt-on-the-Maine. Amidst the severe battles of a time so rife in immeasurablecontradictions, Bismarck commenced his family life in a simplebut substantial manner, as befitting a nobleman of the Alt Markor Pomerania; and so he has been able to maintain himself evenat the elevation at which God the Almighty has placed him forthe good of his native country. That he may ever maintain it isthe aspiration of every patriot, for in him the fountain ever fresh-ly runs, whence he draws continual renovation for the service ofhis King and
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