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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia Frederick The Great—Complete Table of Contents: 22 Volumes

by Carlyle Thomas

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HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II.
OF PRUSSIA

FREDERICK THE GREAT


By Thomas Carlyle


The Complete Project Gutenberg Edition

Containing active links to each of the Chapters
and Major sections of the 22 Posted Volumes






Project Gutenberg Editor's Note

Reproofing this old Project Gutenberg edition of the History of Frederick the Great has been both rewarding and disappointing. Each of the first 21 original volumes had many hundreds of errors corrected—many remain. The editor was fortunate to have a good printed set of all 22 volumes available for reference when there were questions in the etext. The original PG edition had some severe basic problems: two of the most important were first, that the etext was posted in the ASCII character set—a heavy defect in books full of words in German; and second, the footnotes were not marked as such in the etext but rather the footnote material was simply inserted into the main text making it impossible most of the time to tell what is text and what footnote. Another of the peculiarities in this set: many words are a combination of lower and upper case—likely done in the original contributor's print copy for emphasis of certain syllables.

In spite of the many months taken in correcting the 22 volumes, they are reposted with regret they are not better and with the realization the renovated edition is a poor representation of this great work. This reposting I consider an interim step, with the hope another volunteer will someday produce a new PG edition from new scans saved in unicode or Latin-1 with linked footnotes—a project I am unlikely to have time to accomplish.

David Widger

June 12, 2008

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BOOKS

BOOK I. — BIRTH AND PARENTAGE. - 1712.

BOOK II. — OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS. - 928-1417.

BOOK III. — THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. - 1412-1718

BOOK IV. — FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP, FIRST STAGE. - 1713-1728.

BOOK V. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO. - 1723-1726.

BOOK VI. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND CROWN-PRINCE, GOING ADRIFT UNDER THE STORM-WINDS. - 1727-1730.

BOOK VII. — FEARFUL SHIPWRECK OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT. - Feb.-Nov., 1730.

BOOK VIII. — CROWN-PRINCE REPRIEVED: LIFE AT CUSTRIN - Nov. 1730-February, 1732.

BOOK IX. — LAST STAGE OF FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP: LIFE IN RUPPIN. - 1732-1736.

BOOK X. — AT REINSBERG. - 1736-1740.

BOOK XI. — FRIEDRICH TAKES THE REINS IN HAND. — June-December, 1740.

BOOK XII. — FIRST SILESIAN WAR, AWAKENING A GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE, BEGINS. — December, 1740-May, 1741.

BOOK XIII. — FIRST SILESIAN WAR, LEAVING THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE ABLAZE ALL ROUND, GETS ENDED. — May, 1741-July, 1742.

BOOK XIV.—THE SURROUNDING EUROPEAN WAR DOES NOT END.—August, 1742-July, 1744.

BOOK XV.—SECOND SILESIAN WAR, IMPORTANT EPISODE IN THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE.—15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745.

BOOK XVI.—THE TEN YEARS OF PEACE.—1746-1756

Book XVII—THE
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SEVEN-YEARS WAR: FIRST CAMPAIGN—1756-1757.

BOOK XVIII.—SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT.—1757-1759.

BOOK XVIII (CONTINUED)—SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT. 1757-1759.

BOOK XIX.—FRIEDRICH LIKE TO BE OVERWHELMED IN THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR.—1759-1760.

BOOK XX.—FRIEDRICH IS NOT TO BE OVERWHELMED: THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR GRADUALLY ENDS—25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763.

BOOK XXI.—AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF FRIEDRICH'S LIFE—1763-1786.

APPENDIX.






TABLE OF CONTENTS OF ALL CHAPTERS


BOOK I. — BIRTH AND PARENTAGE. — 1712.

Chapter I. — PROEM: FRIEDRICH'S HISTORY FROM THE DISTANCE WE ARE AT.
1. FRIEDRICH THEN, AND FRIEDRICH NOW.
2. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
3. ENGLISH PREPOSSESSIONS.
4. ENCOURAGEMENTS, DISCOURAGEMENTS.

Chapter II. — FRIEDRICH'S BIRTH.

Chapter III. — FATHER AND MOTHER: THE HANOVERIAN CONNECTION.

Chapter IV. — FATHER'S MOTHER.

Chapter V. — KING FRIEDRICH I.





BOOK II. — OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS. - 928-1417.

Chapter I. — BRANNIBOR: HENRY THE FOWLER.

Chapter II. — PREUSSEN: SAINT ADALBERT.

Chapter III. — MARKGRAVES OF BRANDENBURG.
END OF THE FIRST SHADOWY LINE.
SECOND SHADOWY LINE.
SUBSTANTIAL MARKGRAVES: GLIMPSE OF THE CONTEMPORARY KAISERS.

Chapter IV. — ALBERT THE BEAR.

Chapter V. — CONRAD OF HOHENZOLLERN; AND KAISER BARBAROSSA.
CONRAD HAS BECOME BURGGRAF OF NURNBERG (A.D. 1170).
OF THE HOHENZOLLERN BURGGRAVES GENERALLY.

Chapter VI. — THE TEUTSCH RITTERS OR TEUTONIC ORDER.
HEAD OF TEUTSCH ORDER MOVES TO VENICE.
TEUTSCH ORDER ITSELF GOES TO PREUSSEN.
THE STUFF TEUTSCH RITTERS WERE MADE OF CONRAD OF THURINGEN: SAINT ELIZABETH; TOWN OF MARBURG.

Chapter VII. — MARGRAVIATE OF CULMBACH: BAIREUTH, ANSPACH.
BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH III.; AND THE ANARCHY OF NINETEEN YEARS.
KAISER RUDOLF AND BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH III.

Chapter VIII. — ASCANIER MARKGRAVES IN BRANDENBURG.
OF BERLIN CITY.
MARKGRAF OTTO IV., OR OTTO WITH THE ARROW

Chapter IX. — BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH IV.
CONTESTED ELECTIONS IN THE REICH: KAISER ALBERT I.; AFTER WHOM SIX NON-HAPSBURG KAISERS.
OF KAISER HENRY VII. AND THE LUXEMBURG KAISERS.
HENRY'S SON JOHANN IS KING OF BOHEMIA; AND LUDWIG THE BAVARIAN, WITH A CONTESTED ELECTION, IS KAISER.

Chapter X. — BRANDENBURG LAPSES TO THE KAISER.

Chapter XI. — BAYARIAN KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.
A RESUSCITATED ASCANIER; THE FALSE WALDEMAR.
MARGARET WITH THE POUCH-MOUTH.

Chapter XII. — BRANDENBURG IN KAISER KARL'S TIME; END OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS.
END OF RESUSCITATED WALDEMAR; KURFURST LUDWIG SELLS OUT.
SECOND, AND THEN THIRD AND LAST, OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.

Chapter XIII. — LUXEMBURG KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.

Chapter XIV. — BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH VI.
SIGISMUND IS KURFURST OF BRANDENBURG, BUT IS KING OF HUNGARY ALSO.
COUSIN JOBST HAS BRANDENBURG IN PAWN.
BRANDENBURG IN THE HANDS OF THE PAWNBROKERS; RUPERT OF THE PFALZ IS KAISER.
SIGISMUND, WITH A STRUGGLE, BECOMES KAISER.
BRANDENBURG IS PAWNED FOR THE LAST TIME.
THE SEVEN INTERCALARY OR NON-HAPSBURG KAISERS.





BOOK III. — THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. - 1412-1718

Chapter I. — KURFURST FRIEDRICH I.

Chapter II. — MATINEES DU ROI DE PRUSSE.

Chapter III. — KURFURST FRIEDRICH
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Chapter IV. — KURFURST ALBERT ACHILLES, AND HIS SUCCESSOR.
JOHANN THE CICERO IS FOURTH KURFURST, AND LEAVES TWO NOTABLE SONS.

Chapter V. — OF THE BAIREUTH-ANSPACH BRANCH.
TWO LINES IN CULMBACH OR BAIREUTH-ANSPACH: THE GERA BOND OF 1598.
THE ELDER LINE OF CULMBACH: FRIEDRICH AND HIS THREE NOTABLE SONS THERE.
FRIEDRICH'S SECOND SON, MARGRAF GEORGE OF ANSPACH.

Chapter VI. — HOCHMEISTER ALBERT, THIRD NOTABLE SON OF FRIEDRICH.

Chapter VII. — ALBERT ALCIBIADES.

Chapter VIII. — HISTORICAL MEANING OF THE REFORMATION.

Chapter IX. — KURFURST JOACHIM I.

Chapter X. — KURFURST JOACHIM II.
JOACHIM GETS CO-INVESTMENT IN PREUSSEN.
JOACHIM MAKES "HERITAGE-BROTHERHOOD" WITH THE DUKE OF LIEGNITZ.
Chapter XI. — SEVENTH KURFURST, JOHANN GEORGE.

Chapter XII. — OF ALBERT FRIEDRICH, THE SECOND DUKE OF PREUSSEN.
OF DUKE ALBERT FRIEDRICH'S MARRIAGE: WHO HIS WIFE WAS, AND WHAT HER POSSIBLE DOWRY.
MARGRAF GEORGE FRIEDRICH COMES TO PREUSSEN TO ADMINISTER.

Chapter XIII. — NINTH KURFURST, JOHANN SIGISMUND.
HOW THE CLEVE HERITAGE DROPPED, AND MANY SPRANG TO PICK IT UP.
THE KAISER'S THOUGHTS ABOUT IT, AND THE WORLD'S.

Chapter XIV. — SYMPTOMS OF A GREAT WAR COMING.
FIRST SYMPTOM; DONAUWORTH, 1608.
SYMPTOM THIRD: A DINNER-SCENE AT DUSSELDORF, 1613: SPANIARDS AND DUTCH SHOULDER ARMS IN CLEVE.
SYMPTOM FOURTH, AND CATASTROPHE UPON THE HEELS OF IT.
WHAT BECAME OF THE CLEVE-JULICH HERITAGE, AND OF THE PREUSSEN ONE.

Chapter XV. — TENTH KURFURST, GEORGE WILHELM.

Chapter XVI. — THIRTY-YEARS WAR.
SECOND ACT, OR EPOCH, 1624-1629. A SECOND UNCLE PUT TO THE BAN, AND POMMERN SNATCHED AWAY.
THIRD ACT, AND WHAT THE KURFURST SUFFERED IN IT.

Chapter XVII. — DUCHY OF JAGERNDORF.
DUKE OF JAGERNDORF, ELECTOR'S UNCLE, IS PUT UNDER BAN.

Chapter XVIII. — FRIEDRICH WILHELM, THE GREAT KURFURST, ELEVENTH OF THE SERIES.
WHAT BECAME OF POMMERN AT THE PEACE; FINAL GLANCE INTO CLEVE-JULICH.
THE GREAT KURFURST'S WARS: WHAT HE ACHIEVED IN WAR AND PEACE.

Chapter XIX. — KING FRIEDRICH I. AGAIN.
HOW AUSTRIA SETTLED THE SILESIAN CLAIMS.
HIS REAL CHARACTER.

Chapter XX. — DEATH OF KING FRIEDRICH I.
THE TWELVE HOHENZOLLERN ELECTORS.
GENEALOGICAL DIAGRAM: THE TWO CULMBACH LINES.





BOOK IV. — FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP, FIRST STAGE. - 1713-1728.

Chapter I. — CHILDHOOD: DOUBLE EDUCATIONAL ELEMENT.
FIRST EDUCATIONAL ELEMENT, THE FRENCH ONE.

Chapter II. — THE GERMAN ELEMENT.
OF THE DESSAUER, NOT YET "OLD."

Chapter III. — FRIEDRICH WILHELM IS KING.

Chapter IV. — HIS MAJESTY'S WAYS.

Chapter V. — FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S ONE WAR.
THE DEVIL IN HARNESS: CREUTZ THE FINANCE-MINISTER.

Chapter VI. — THE LITTLE DRUMMER.

Chapter VII. — TRANSIT OF CZAR PETER.

Chapter VIII. — THE CROWN-PRINCE IS PUT TO HIS SCHOOLING.

Chapter IX. — WUSTERHAUSEN.

Chapter X. — THE HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS.
OF KUR-PFALZ KARL PHILIP: HOW HE GOT A WIFE LONG SINCE, AND DID FEATS IN THE WORLD.
KARL PHILIP AND HIS HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S METHOD;—PROVES REMEDIAL IN HEIDELBERG.
PRUSSIAN MAJESTY HAS DISPLEASED THE KAISER AND THE KING OF POLAND.

Chapter XI. — ON THE CROWN-PRINCE'S PROGRESS IN HIS SCHOOLING.
THE NOLTENIUS-AND-PANZENDORF DRILL-EXERCISE.

Chapter XII. — CROWN-PRINCE FALLS INTO DISFAVOR WITH PAPA.

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BOOK V. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO. — 1723-1726.

Chapter I. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE IS DECIDED ON.
QUEEN SOPHIE DOROTHEE HAS TAKEN TIME BY THE FORELOCK.
PRINCESS AMELIA COMES INTO THE WORLD.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S TEN CHILDREN.

Chapter II. — A KAISER HUNTING SHADOWS.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY ON THE TREATY OF UTRECHT.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAS GOT HAPPILY WEDDED.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY AND THE TERMAGANT OF SPAIN.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S PRAGMATIC SANCTION.
THIRD SHADOW: IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S OSTEND COMPANY.

Chapter III. — THE SEVEN CRISES OR EUROPEAN TRAVAIL-THROES.
CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI.
CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI GETS THE FLOOR PULLED FROM UNDER IT.
FRANCE AND THE BRITANNIC MAJESTY TRIM THE SHIP AGAIN: HOW FRIEDRICH WILHELM CAME INTO IT. TREATY OF HANOVER, 1725.
TRAVAIL-THROES OF NATURE FOR BABY CARLOS'S ITALIAN APANAGE; SEVEN IN NUMBER.

Chapter IV. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE TREATY CANNOT BE SIGNED.

Chapter V. — CROWN-PRINCE GOES INTO THE POTSDAM GUARDS.
OF THE POTSDAM GIANTS, AS A FACT.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S RECRUITING DIFFICULTIES.
QUEEN SOPHIE'S TROUBLES: GRUMKOW WITH THE OLD DESSAUER, AND GRUMKOW WITHOUT HIM.

Chapter VI. — ORDNANCE-MASTER SECKENDORF CROSSES THE PALACE ESPLANADE.

Chapter VII. — TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT.
OF GUNDLING, AND THE LITERARY MEN IN TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT.

Chapter VIII. — SECKENDORF'S RETORT TO HER MAJESTY.






BOOK VI. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND CROWN-PRINCE, GOING ADRIFT UNDER THE STORM-WINDS. — 1727-1730.

Chapter I. — FIFTH CRISIS IN THE KAISER'S SPECTRE-HUNT.
CROWN-PRINCE SEEN IN DRYASDUST'S GLASS, DARKLY.

Chapter II. — DEATH OF GEORGE I.
HIS PRUSSIAN MAJESTY FALLS INTO ONE OF HIS HYPOCHONDRIACAL FITS.

Chapter III. — VISIT TO DRESDEN.
THE PHYSICALLY STRONG PAYS HIS COUNTER-VISIT.
OF PRINCESS WHILHELMINA'S FOUR KINGS AND OTHER INEFFECTUAL SUITORS.

Chapter IV. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT IS NOT DEAD.
CROWN-PRINCE FRIEDRICH WRITES CERTAIN LETTERS.
DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT RE-EMERGES IN AN OFFICIAL SHAPE.
HIS MAJESTY SLAUGHTERS 3,602 HEAD OF WILD SWINE.
FALLS ILL, IN CONSEQUENCE; AND THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE CANNOT GET FORWARD.

Chapter V. — CONGRESS OF SOISSONS, SIXTH CRISIS IN THE SPECTRE-HUNT.

Chapter VI. — IMMINENCY OF WAR OR DUEL BETWEEN THE BRITANNIC AND PRUSSIAN MAJESTIES.
CAUSE FIRST: THE HANOVER JOINT-HERITAGES, WHICH ARE NOT IN A LIQUID STATE.
CAUSE SECOND: THE TROUBLES OF MECKLENBURG.
CAUSES THIRD AND FOURTH:—AND CAUSE FIFTH, WORTH ALL THE OTHERS.
TROUBLES OF MECKLENBURG, FOR THE LAST TIME.
ONE NUSSLER SETTLES THE AHLDEN HERITAGES; SENDS THE MONEY HOME IN BOXES.

Chapter VII. — A MARRIAGE: NOT THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE: CROWN-PRINCE DEEP IN TROUBLE.
CROWN-PRINCE'S DOMESTICITIES SEEN IN A FLASH OF LIGHTNING.

Chapter VIII. — CROWN-PRINCE GETTING BEYOND HIS DEPTH IN TROUBLE.

Chapter IX. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE SHALL BE OR SHALL NOT BE.
WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS FIRST: ENGLAND SHALL SAY YES OR SAY NO.
DUBOURGAY STRIKES A LIGHT FOR THE ENGLISH COURT.
WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS SECOND: ENGLAND SHALL HAVE SAID NO.
WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS THIRD: MAJESTY HIMSELF WILL CHOOSE, THEN.
HOW FRIEDRICH PRINCE OF BAIREUTH CAME TO BE THE MAN, AFTER ALL.
DOUBLE-MARRIAGE, ON THE EDGE OF SHIPWRECK, FLIES OFF A KIND OF CARRIER-PIGEON, OR NOAH'S-DOVE, TO ENGLAND, WITH CRY FOR HELP.






BOOK VII. — FEARFUL SHIPWRECK OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT. — Feb.-Nov., 1730.

Chapter I. — ENGLAND SENDS THE EXCELLENCY HOTHAM TO BERLIN.
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HOW VILLA WAS RECEIVED IN ENGLAND.
EXCELLENCY HOTHAM ARRIVES IN BERLIN.

Chapter II. — LANGUAGE OF BIRDS: EXCELLENCY HOTHAM PROVES UNAVAILING.
A PEEP INTO THE NOSTI-GRUMKOW CORRESPONDENCE CAUGHT UP IN ST. MARY AXE.
THE HOTHAM DESPATCHES.
HIS MAJESTY GETS SIGHT OF THE ST.-MARY-AXE DOCUMENTS; BUT NOTHING FOLLOWS FROM IT.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH IN BERLIN HAS AN ACCIDENT.

Chapter III. — CAMP OF RADEWITZ.

Chapter IV. — EXCELLENCY HOTHAM QUITS BERLIN IN HASTE.

Chapter V. — JOURNEY TO THE REICH.

Chapter VI. — JOURNEY HOMEWARDS FROM THE REICH; CATASTROPHE ON JOURNEY HOMEWARDS.
CATASTROPHE ON JOURNEY HOMEWARDS.

Chapter VII. — CATASTROPHE, AND MAJESTY, ARRIVE IN BERLIN.
SCENE AT BERLIN ON MAJESTY'S ARRIVAL.

Chapter VIII. — SEQUEL TO CROWN-PRINCE AND FRIENDS.

Chapter IX. — COURT-MARTIAL ON CROWN-PRINCE AND CONSORTS.
CROWN-PRINCE IN CUSTRIN.
SENTENCE OF COURT-MARTIAL.
KATTE'S END, 6th NOVEMBER, 1780.






BOOK VIII. — CROWN-PRINCE REPRIEVED: LIFE AT CUSTRIN — November, 1730-February, 1732.

Chapter I. — CHAPLAIN MULLER WAITS ON THE CROWN-PRINCE.

Chapter II. — CROWN-PRINCE TO REPENT AND NOT PERISH.
CROWN-PRINCE BEGINS A NEW COURSE.

Chapter III. — WILHELMINA IS TO WED THE PRINCE OF BAIREUTH.

Chapter IV. — CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN PREUSSEN AND ELSEWHERE.
CASE OF SCHLUBHUT.
CASE OF THE CRIMINAL-COLLEGIUM ITSELF.
SKIPPER JENKINS IN THE GULF OF FLORIDA.
BABY CARLOS GETS HIS APANAGE.

Chapter V. — INTERVIEW OF MAJESTY AND CROWN-PRINCE AT CUSTRIN.
GRUMKOW'S "PROTOKOLL" OF THE 15th AUGUST, 1731; OR SUMMARY OF WHAT TOOK PLACE AT CUSTRIN THAT DAY.
SCHULENBURG'S THREE LETTERS TO GRUMKOW, ON VISITS TO THE CROWN-PRINCE, DURING THE CUSTRIN TIME.
HIS MAJESTY'S BUILDING OPERATIONS.

Chapter VI. — WILHELMINA'S WEDDING.






BOOK IX. — LAST STAGE OF FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP: LIFE IN RUPPIN. — 1732-1736.

Chapter I. — PRINCESS ELIZABETH CHRISTINA OF BRUNSWICK-BEVERN.
WHO HIS MAJESTY'S CHOICE IS; AND WHAT THE CROWN-PRINCE THINKS OF IT.
DUKE OF LORRAINE ARRIVES IN POTSDAM AND IN BERLIN.
BETROTHAL OF THE CROWN-PRINCE TO THE BRUNSWICK CHARMER, NIECE OF IMPERIAL MAJESTY, MONDAY EVENING, 10th MARCH, 1732.

Chapter II. — SMALL INCIDENTS AT RUPPIN.

Chapter III. — THE SALZBURGERS.

Chapter IV. — PRUSSIAN MAJESTY VISITS THE KAISER.

Chapter V. — GHOST OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE RISES; TO NO PURPOSE.
SESSION OF TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT, 6th DECEMBER, 1732.

Chapter VI. — KING AUGUST MEDITATING GREAT THINGS FOR POLAND.

Chapter VII. — CROWN-PRINCE'S MARRIAGE.

Chapter VIII. — KING AUGUST DIES; AND POLAND TAKES FIRE.
POLAND HAS TO FIND A NEW KING.
OF THE CANDIDATES; OF THE CONDITIONS. HOW THE ELECTION WENT.
POLAND ON FIRE; DANTZIG STANDS SIEGE.

Chapter IX. — KAISER'S SHADOW-HUNT HAS CAUGHT FIRE.
SUBSEQUENT COURSE OF THE WAR, IN THE ITALIAN PART OF IT.
COURSE OF THE WAR, IN THE GERMAN PART OF IT.
Chapter X. — CROWN-PRINCE GOES TO THE RHINE CAMPAIGN.
GLIMPSE OF LIEUTENANT CHASOT, AND OF OTHER ACQUISITIONS.
CROWN-PRINCE'S VISIT TO BAIREUTH ON THE WAY HOME.

Chapter XI. — IN PAPA'S SICK-ROOM; PRUSSIAN INSPECTIONS: END OF WAR.






BOOK X. — AT REINSBERG. - 1736-1740.

Chapter I. — MANSION OF REINSBERG.
OF
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MONSIEUR JORDAN AND THE LITERARY SET.

Chapter II. — OF VOLTAIRE AND THE LITERARY CORRESPONDENCES.

Chapter III. — CROWN-PRINCE MAKES A MORNING CALL.

Chapter IV. — NEWS OF THE DAY.
OF BERG AND JULICH AGAIN; AND OF LUISCIUS WITH THE ONE RAZOR.

Chapter V. — VISIT AT LOO.
CROWN-PRINCE BECOMES A FREEMASON; AND IS HARANGUED BY MONSIEUR DE BIELFELD.
SECKENDORF GETS LODGED IN GRATZ.
THE EAR OF JENKINS RE-EMERGES.

Chapter VI. — LAST YEAR OF REINSBERG; JOURNEY TO PREUSSEN.
PINE'S HORACE; AND THE ANTI-MACHIAVEL.
FRIEDRICH IN PREUSSEN AGAIN; AT THE STUD OF TRAKEHNEN. A TRAGICALLY GREAT EVENT COMING ON.

Chapter VII. — LAST YEAR OF REINSBERG: TRANSIT OF BALTIMORE AND OTHER PERSONS AND THINGS.
BIELFELD, WHAT HE SAW AT REINSBERG AND AROUND.
TURK WAR ENDS; SPANISH WAR BEGINS. A WEDDING IN PETERSBURG.

Chapter VIII. — DEATH OF FRIEDRICH WILHELM.






BOOK XI. — FRIEDRICH TAKES THE REINS IN HAND. — June-December, 1740.

Chapter I. — PHENOMENA OF FRIEDRICH'S ACCESSION.
FRIEDRICH WILL MAKE MEN HAPPY: CORN-MAGAZINES.
ABOLITION OF LEGAL TORTURE.
WILL HAVE PHILOSOPHERS ABOUT HIM, AND A REAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.
AND EVERY ONE SHALL GET TO HEAVEN IN HIS OWN WAY.
FREE PRESS, AND NEWSPAPERS THE BEST INSTRUCTORS.
INTENDS TO BE PRACTICAL WITHAL, AND EVERY INCH A KING.
BEHAVIOR TO HIS MOTHER; TO HIS WIFE.
NO CHANGE IN HIS FATHER'S METHODS OR MINISTRIES.

Chapter II. — THE HOMAGINGS.
FRIEDRICH ACCEPTS THE HOMAGES, PERSONALLY, IN THREE PLACES.

Chapter III. — FRIEDRICH MAKES AN EXCURSION, NOT OF DIRECT SORT INTO THE CLEVE COUNTRIES.
FRIEDRICH STRIKES OFF TO THE LEFT, AND HAS A VIEW OF STRASBURG FOR TWO DAYS.
FRIEDRICH FINDS M. DE MAUPERTUIS; NOT YET M. DE VOLTAIRE.

Chapter IV. — VOLTAIRE'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH FRIEDRICH.
PARTICULARS OF FIRST INTERVIEW, ON SEVERE SCRUTINY.
WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF THE INTERVIEW TWENTY YEARS AFTERWARDS.
WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF THE INTERVIEW AT THE TIME.

Chapter V. — AFFAIR OF HERSTAL.
HOW THE HERSTALLERS HAD BEHAVED TO FRIEDRICH WILHELM.
FRIEDRICH TAKES THE ROD OUT OF PICKLE.
WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF HERSTAL.

Chapter VI. — RETURNS BY HANOVER; DOES NOT CALL ON HIS ROYAL UNCLE THERE.

Chapter VII. — WITHDRAWS TO REINSBERG, HOPING A PEACEABLE WINTER.
WILHELMINA'S RETURN-VISIT.
UNEXPECTED NEWS AT REINSBERG.

Chapter VIII. — THE KAISER'S DEATH.

Chapter IX. — RESOLUTION FORMED AT REINSBERG IN CONSEQUENCE.
MYSTERY IN BERLIN, FOR SEVEN WEEKS, WHILE THE PREPARATIONS GO ON; VOLTAIRE VISITS FRIEDRICH TO DECIPHER IT, BUT CANNOT.
VIEW OF FRIEDRICH BEHIND THE VEIL.
EXCELLENCY BOTTA HAS AUDIENCE; THEN EXCELLENCY DICKENS, AND OTHERS: DECEMBER 6th, THE MYSTERY IS OUT.
MASKED BALL, AT BERLIN, 12th-13th DECEMBER.