GMATIC 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