THE TURNING•POINT IN GERMANY'S HISTORY.
[To THE EDITOR Op TICE "SPECTATOR...] SIR,—In your issue of August 7th Mr. Sidney Whitman takes me to task for stating in my article under the above beading, published by you on July 31st, that hundreds of German newspapers supported Bismarck's views opposing the Emperor's policy. According to him, only the Hamburger Nactirichten supported Bismarck after his dismissal, I have the highest respect for Mr. Whitman's views, but I am afraid that his memory has played him false. I lived during many years in Germany, and I remember well that Bismarck's criticism in the Hamburger Nachrichten found a ready echo throughout Germany, especially in the South. If Mr. Whitman will turn to Penzler's seven-volume work, Mira Bismarck nach seiner Entlassung, and to Hofinaun's recently published volumes, he will find a large number of German papers enumerated which habitually supported the ex-Chan- cellor against the Emperor. Moreover, Bismarck found innumerable champions in the upper and middle classes among men who called themselves not Conservatives or Liberals, &o., but merely " Bistuarckiauer." In hundreds of pilgrimages to Friedriehsruh and in enormous manifesta- tions which made Bismarck's occasional journeys a veritable triumphal progress they showed that they supported Bismarck against the Emperor.—I am, Sir, &c., THE WRITER 01' THE ARTICLE.
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