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TWO CHANCELLORS:
PRINCE GORTCHAKOF AND PRINCEBISMARCK.
BY
JULIAN KLACZKO.
FRANK P. WARD.
PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON.
Cambridge: The Riverside Press.
1876.
By FRANK P. WARD.
1876.
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
In the year 1866 Carlyle said: "The only man appointed by God to be Hisviceregent here on earth in these days, and knowing he was so appointedand bent with his whole soul on doing, and able to do God's work," is M.de Bismarck. If this be true, then M. de Bismarck has found a mostvaluable ally and colleague in the present Premier of Russia. It is ofthese two men, Prince Bismarck, and Prince Gortchakof, the Chancellor ofGermany, and the Chancellor of all the Russias, that this book treats.The author is M. Julian Klaczko, a Polish refugee, a man of cosmopolitanhabits, an accomplished and able writer, thoroughly acquainted with thecontemporaneous history of Europe, prejudiced against Prussia, an ardentfriend of Austria, and devoted to a conservative and monarchical form ofgovernment. He was always the friend of Poland. In 1863 he defendedDenmark in a series of able papers, which came out in the "Revue desdeux Mondes," under the title of "Studies of Contemporaneous Diplomacy."After the battle of Sadowa,[iv] he appeared as the friend of Austria in awork entitled, "The Preliminaries of Sadowa." Count de Beust summonedhim to Vienna, and attached him to the Foreign Office. Klaczko was thenelected Deputy in the Polish province of Galicia. After 1870 he resignedhis posts and returned to France.
In the "Two Chancellors" he has given a condensed but graphic review ofthe diplomatic history of Europe from 1855 to 1871, and a sketch of thelives of Prince Bismarck and Prince Gortchakof, the two most eminent menof the day. He also seeks to prov