Readers of this journal will need no introduction to Otto von Bismarck. There are almost as many English-language biographies of him as those written in German. The four short studies by Lynn Abrams, Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871-1918 (1995); Andrina Stiles, The Unification of Germany, 1815-1890 (1986); D. G. Williamson, Bismarck and Germany, 1862-1890 (1986) and Bruce Waller, Bismarck (1985) testify to a lively interest in the schools.