Excerpt from Bismarck, Vol. 1 of 3: Some Secret Pages of His History The English edition of Dr. Busch's work which we pub lish to-day has been translated from the original German text in our possession. A few passages have, however, been omitted as defamatory, or otherwise unsuitable for publica tion. Dr. Busch contemplated incorporating bodily in the first volume a reproduction of his earlier work: Prince Bis marck and his People during Me franco-german War, but while preserving the many valuable additions which he made to it, we have considerably abridged such portions as would no longer have presented any special interest for English. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.