-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.

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 KAISER