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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.

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

Chapter I. -- OF SCHLESIEN, OR SILESIA. HISTORICAL EPOCHS OF SCHLESIEN;-
-AFTER THE QUADS AND MARCHMEN.

Chapter II. -- FRIEDRICH MARCHES ON GLOGAU. FRIEDRICH AT CROSSEN, AND
STILL IN HIS OWN TERRITORY, 14th-16th DECEMBER;--STEPS INTO SCHLESIEN.
WHAT GLOGAU, AND THE GOVERNMENT AT BRESLAU, DID UPON IT. MARCH TO
WEICHAU (SATURDAY, 17th, AND STAY SUNDAY THERE); TO MILKAU (MONDAY,
19th); GET TO HERRENDORF, WITHIN SIGHT OF GLOGAU, DECEMBER 22d.

Chapter III. -- PROBLEM OF GLOGAU. WHAT BERLIN IS SAYING; WHAT FRIEDRICH
IS THINKING. JORDAN TO THE KING SCHWERIN AT LIEGNITZ; FRIEDRICH HUSHES
UP THE GLOGAU PROBLEM, AND STARTS WITH HIS BEST SPEED FOR BRESLAU.

Chapter IV. -- BRESLAU UNDER SOFT PRESSURE. KING ENTERS BRESLAW; STAYS
THERE, GRACIOUS AND VIGILANT, FOUR DAYS (Jan. 2d-6t