Those strenuous times are long over, and if strenuous times have yet
to come they will find the Emperor alert and knowing better how to
deal with them. He has, one may be sure, no thoughts of well-earned
rest or dignified repose--he probably never will, with his strong
conception of duty and his interest in the fortunes of his Empire.
Still, he is a good deal changed. Time has taught him more than his
early tutor, worthy Dr. Hinzpeter, ever taught him; and if his spring
was boisterous, and his summer gusty and uncertain, a mellow autumn
gives promise of a hale and kindly winter.

INDEX

Abdul Aziz, 259.

Absolutism, 2, 295, 368 _seq_.

Accession, date, I; period, 69 _seq_.

Achilleion, 317.

Aegir, Song to, 224.

Agadir, 264 _seq_.

Alexandra, Queen, 327.

Algeciras Conference, 261 _seq_.;
Act of, 262.

Alsace-Lorraine, 84 _seq_.

America,
art exhibition, 222;
Germany and, 238;
Frederick the Great and, 242;
squadron at Kiel, 244;
commercial relations with, 331, 380 _seq_.

Anarchism, 42 _seq_.

Anglo-French Agreement, 1904, 259 _seq_.

Anglo-German Agreement,
1890, 140;
1904, 335;
relations, 4-7, 243, 282, 335 _seq_.

Anglo-Japanese Agreement, 201.

Anti-Semites, 178.

Arbitration, compulsory, 340.

Aristocracy, German, 114.

Armament, limitation of, 340.

Army,
accession speech to, 69;
importance of, 71;
true character of, 285;
Emperor and, 294.

Art, Emperor on, 202, 205 _seq_.;
speech to sculptors, 207;
German ideals, 218.

Attempt on,
Emperor, 202;
on William I, 42.

Augusta, Empress, wife of William I, 43, 45.

Auguste, Victoria, present Empress, 37 _seq_.

"Babel und Bibel," 246.

Baghdad railway, 200.

Balkans, 339.

Ballin, 367.

Battenberg affair, 55.

Bebel, August, 58, 90, 359. _See_ Social Democracy

Bennigsen, von, 13.

Berlin palace (Schloss), 114.

Bethmann Hollweg, 322 _seq_.

Biedermeier time, 167.

Bismarck, 13;
Empress Fred. and, 44;
William I and, 43 _seq_.;
on Divine Right, 60 _seq_.;
on foreign policy, 76;
resignation, 104,133;
Emperor and, 49, 131;
"blood and iron" speech, 128;
Emperor's account of quarrel with, 135;
journey to Vienna, 141;
death, 143.

"Bloc" party, 281, 288, 322.

Boer war, German policy and, 156, 303.

Bonn, Emperor at, 29; address at, 203.

Borussia, 30, 36, 203.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 329.

Boulanger, 52, 76.

Boxer troubles, 46