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Scandal And Tragedy By Prince Bulow
THE FOURTH VOLUME
YBy Edward Hawke)
If any reader of the late Prince, with the German collapse in 1918.
von Bulow's first three volumes of But he knew well enough that the memoirs, should suppose that the comparison was misleading.
Lola, A Music Hall Singer, fourth and last volume, is in any way inferior to its predecessors, he is greatly mistaken.
The witty and malevolent old gentleman who dictated his book after the war when he was living at the Villa Malta in Rome, knew very well how to attract the maxi- mum amount of publicity for his posthumous Apologia.
At Court.
In recalling his days with the Hussars, Bulow brings out
some
of those lively anecdotes of which he had an inexhaustible store- whether true or well invented.
For example, there was a certain Guido von Nimptech, whom the Empress Frederick regarded as while in America he had married "the best-looking man in Berliï.”
an American music-ball * singer began named Lola, and he brought her to as Berlin. One fine day she eloped with a Russian, leaving a letter to explain that Nimptsch was not rich enough to keep her in luxury.
.. Von Bulow, therefore, with his long terms of office |German Foreign Minister and then as Chancellor, defending, nimself and his policy, and heaping ridicule on his Imperial Master and his po litical opponents, so as to stir up the violent controversy that is still raging in Germany. He poured oil on the flames in his third volume, which subjects his successors to the sharpest censure for their folly in starting the World War and, their incompetence in the conduct of it.
Young Prince Was Trained By Bismark.
His main object being thus achieved, Bulow reverts to the days
"Count Nistitz was Military Attache to the Russian Embassy.in he had run away with, and was' Berlin. He married Lola, the lady
transferred to Paris as Military Attache after his marriage. The wife of his new chief, the Russian she would not receive Ambassador, Nelidov, declared that
Lola on account of her vivid past. The moment Guido von Nimptsch heard of this he travelled to Paris and demanded satisfaction of the Ambassador, Nelidov, because his wife had dared to insult the former Frau von Nimptsoff..
Countess
"Nelldoy, who showed no inclina-
of his youth, and recounts how he tion to stand in front of Nimptsch's pistols, promised that the Countess
Novels In Brief STRANGE STORY OF was trained under Bismarck, whose Nistitz would be Well received in
י:
Hot WaterBy P. G. Wode-
THE ESKIMO.
fall, as he believed, portended ill his house. Toujours chevalrusque for his country.. The Bismarck was the motto of Guido"
house.; (Jenkins. 7s 6d.)-Mr. Written By A Man Who are is the subject of this new vo
Wodehouse in his most entertain-
ing vein. He has
done.
Married One.
lume, and all the leading figures in that. troubled half-century of
a
Scandalous Stories Told of Russian Emperor..
nothing funnier than this "Eskimo," by Peter Freuchen, European history are sketched by pleasing Bismarck; the leading uproarious farce about a plot to translated by A. Paul Maerker sten! Mrs. J. Wellington Gedge's Branden and Elsa Branden is jewela plot of great complexity something new. which introduces two crooks from Taparte
Bulow was most carefully coach- ed by his father in the art of
brilliant and venomous pen.maxim was that he must be given Balow spared no one outside his plenty of facts and few opinions— threw himself own family: he did not spare him. not a bad rule for juniors in any America, and ahost of other upon his wife, and hammered her self.
profession. characters all in the authentic head with his fists. Then he drag
As an Attache from 1878 Bulow Wodehouse tradition. That "P.G." ged her by her hair around the child by his parents to the castle Rome, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Young Bulow was taken as A was moved about Europe, and from has excelled himself will be the tent. ..Taparte, grasping a club, verdict of thousands of his adbeat her mercilessly... Aba, like of Rumpenheim, to visit the Prince Athens, Paris, and then St. Peters- mirers.
an experienced boxer, made a leap Christian who become King of Den-urg again, watched the playing of
the The Uttermost Gift-Ey Dorothy for Taparte, throwing her
great diplomatic game by arme mark, and whose daughters Cunynghame. Hutchinson, 78 around him. Being tall and heavy remembered as the Queen of Eng
are Bismarck's master hand. 6d)-Gerda Faraday, unable
"At St. Petersburg in 1875 he saw to she pulled him down with her land and the Empress of Russia. secure the love of an adored weight, making it impossible for
the Tsar Alexander II., whom he' mother. retreats into a world of her him to strike her again.....
"I used then. to. play with the describes as tall and good looking, own, her contacts with real people Nevertheless, he eventually shook
pretty daughters of King Chris a man of cultura, interesting and being meaningless until she meets her off, forced her to the ground,
tian. The elder, Alexandra, the full of humour. "He was not as Clive. The spiritual awakening and belaboured her abdomen, 'and
future consort of King Edward gifted as William II, but he had of Gerda is described with kidneys with his fiats.
VII. of England, was a beautiful better taste and more tact." The great power and insight, and the
slim girl. She retained her won author characteristically goes on The cheering onlookers thought novel as a whole conclusively pro-it impertinent, to interfere between
derful.waist and her light, airy, to give particulars of the Tsar's ves that Miss Cunynghame under- husband and wife, but as the busy-
swinging gait to an advanced mistress, Princess Catherine Dol- stands men and women. A satisfy-body was Mala, Mr. Freuchen's
age.
goruki, to relate how Court ladies Ing and sincere piece of work, formidable hero, 'habody like
"Later on, when I had the hon-who made spiteful remarks about to! Grope Carries On-By F. 0. protest..
our of meeting her, she teased her were promptly banished to the Main. (Faber. 88. 64.)—"Albert | Mala, the Eskimo beau was an-
me with having cuffed and even country; and to affirm that the Grope,"
a bappy, very humani hoyed because his wife had, par-
scratched her when we played Tsar... broke off the campaign novel was an outstanding success a donably enough, been mistaken for
tops, hoops and rooms to let against the Turks in 1877 because the year or two back. In this sequella seal and shot by a white trader;
Truthfulness compelled me to re- he wanted to return to we get the further, "adventures of as a relief to his feelings he car
ply that I also had the honour of Princess. the pseudonymous hero during the ried
off. Aba and murdered
having been treated somewhat His stories Great War, when he has some sur-Taparte, afterwards gouging "out!
ungently now and again by the Saburov, "other prising experiences in a Govern-the dead man's eyes and, throwing delightful Princess herself." · ́¡men", "are" -all too, scandalous. ment office..
them into his tent. This exploit Later, he spent some time at Lan-He tradits the late Duke got round to the ears of the Cans sanne, where he had the first of of Edinburgh, during the VALUABLE BOOK ON dian police; the rest of the book is the affairs with women that sprin- Russian war scare of 1877-78, with concerned with the noble savage's and alternate with pious reflections. to remember that his wife was the kle his somewhat. Voltairean pages, asking the officers on his flagship TRANSPORTATION. encounter with white man's
|justice, bis escape, and his trek Franco-Prussian War Came As
Tear's daughter to which ・食塩 Compression Ignition with wives and family into a safer Great Surprise.
officer is said, apocryphally no district.
It is well known that at the doubt, to have replied, “I know, Foreign Office in the summer of sir; 1 would not like to be married Mr. Freuchen (whose first wife 1870 the political sky was thought to a Russian lady.” The second edition of a book of was an Eskimo girl) throws in to be cloudless. According to Bulow was happy In Paria-in outstanding interest to all con-teresting light on the manners of Balow, the German Foreign Office, 1878-79, but he cannot resist quot- cerned with road transport, and to the sub-Arctic
where his father was then engaged, fig the familiar absurdities attri students of engineering and others,
Old Naterk...
took a couple was under a similar delusion. bubed to Marshal MacMahon. He has just been published, at 28. 6o. of pieces of dried reindeer meet The Ems despatch, skilfully doc is said, for instance, to have com- by Temple Press Ltd, London, left over from last year. The tored by Bismarck, 'caused France plimented a promising black cadet E.C.1. It is entitled "Compression pieces were all monldy, but she injury and precipitated the war at St. Cyr with "C'est vous, le Ignition Engines for Road cleaned them with her anger-nails that the Chancellor "desired, and negul Tres bien! Continues, mon Vehicles, and comes from the pen and handed them to the children. Balow served through the short ami, continuez! That Bulow's of the Editor of The Commercial Iva.... looked for an especialFranco-Prussian campaign with a anecdotes must be taken with at Motor.
ly fine morsel and, in offering it to Hussar regimena
least a grain of salt is shown in
Fully Discussed.
Pretty Creatures..
of Gutshakov, Russfan states-
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