Atlantic monthly Volume 38

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 ...arch-conspirators; to The voyage down the Unknown River this is added, a few pages farther on, the loses more than the Sylvan Year by the statement that Gortchakof at Frankfort absence of the etchings, which were all in-found" firm support in hiscolleague of Prustercsting, although of very unequal merit. sia; " and farther on still, this feeble subBut it is still more readable by one of quiet structure is magnified as "Prince mind than the talc of most voyages of dis-Gortchakof, as we have already seen, had covery. made the acquaintance of, and maintained--The aim of Mr. Klaczko, in his inter-the most intimate relations with a colesting volume,2 is to unveil the mysteries of league," etc. This is certainly not the way diplomacy, and to show that while Gortcha-to write history, without giving the reader kof and Bismarck put their two heads to-the testimony; and a slip like this has no gether and outwitted the whole of Europe, other effect than to put the cautious reader Bismarck was playing a still deeper game on his guard against possibly more waron his own account, and now laughs much rantable statements on the part of the wouldand long in his sleeve when he thinks of be historian. the way he has hoodwinked Gortchakof, to It should be said, however, that in un whom he intends to give and always has raveling the tangled web of diplomacy, Mr. given merely the shell of the oyster. In Klaczko is invariably an entertaining, even proof of the soundness of this hypothesis, if an uncertain guide. He, like many others, which is considered a satisfactory expla-cannot forgive Bismarck for being smbi nation of the recent changes in European tious, for trying to lift Germany into a politics, Mr. Klaczko has written a very place among the hi...