THE YOUNG EMPEROR,
WILLIAM II OF GERMANY
A Study In Character Development On A Throne
By Harold Frederic
Author Of “In The Valley “The Lawton Girl”
With Portraits
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons
1891
TO MY EDITOR, AND EVEN MORE TO MY FRIEND,
CHARLES R. MILLER
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
CONTENTS
THE YOUNG EMPEROR, WILLIAM II OF GERMANY
CHAPTER I.—THE SUPREMACY OF THE HOHENZOLLERNS.
CHAPTER III.—UNDER CHANGED INFLUENCES AT BONN
CHAPTER IV.—THE TIDINGS OF FREDERIC’S DOOM
CHAPTER V.—THROUGH THE SHADOWS TO THE THRONE
CHAPTER VI.—UNDER THE SWAY OF THE BISMARCKS
CHAPTER VII.—THE BEGINNINGS OF A BENEFICENT CHANGE
CHAPTER VIII.—A YEAR OF EXPERIMENTAL ABSOLUTISM
CHAPTER IX.—A YEAR OF HELPFUL LESSONS
CHAPTER X.—THE FALL OF THE BISMARCKS
CHAPTER XI—A YEAR WITHOUT BISMARCK
CHAPTER XII.—PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
THE YOUNG EMPEROR, WILLIAM II OF GERMANY
CHAPTER I.—THE SUPREMACY OF THE HOHENZOLLERNS.
In June of 1888, an army of workmen were toiling in the Champ de Mars upon the foundations of a noble World’s Exhibition, planned to celebrate the centenary of the death by violence of the Divine Right of Kings. Four thousand miles westward, in the city of Chicago, some seven hundred delegates were assemble