S. OF KAISER HENRY
VII. AND THE LUXEMBURG KAISERS. HENRY'S SON JOHANN IS KING OF BOHEMIA;
AND LUDWIG THE BAVARIAN, WITH A CONTESTED ELECTION, IS KAISER.

Chapter X. -- BRANDENBURG LAPSES TO THE KAISER.

Chapter XI. -- BAYARIAN KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG. A RESUSCITATED
ASCANIER; THE FALSE WALDEMAR. MARGARET WITH THE POUCH-MOUTH.

Chapter XII. -- BRANDENBURG IN KAISER KARL'S TIME; END OF THE BAVARIAN
KURFURSTS. END OF RESUSCITATED WALDEMAR; KURFURST LUDWIG SELLS OUT.
SECOND, AND THEN THIRD AND LAST, OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS IN
BRANDENBURG.

Chapter XIII. -- LUXEMBURG KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.

Chapter XIV. -- BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH VI. SIGISMUND IS KURFURST OF
BRANDENBURG, BUT IS KING OF HUNGARY ALSO. COUSIN JOBST HAS BRANDENBURG
IN PAWN. BRANDENBURG IN THE HANDS OF THE PAWNBROKERS; RUPERT OF THE
PFALZ IS KAISER. SIGISMUND, WITH A STRUGGLE, BECOMES KAISER. BRANDENBURG
IS PAWNED FOR THE LAST TIME. THE SEVEN INTERCALARY OR NON-HAPSBURG
KAISERS.

BOOK III. -- THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. - 1412-1718

Chapter I. -- KURFURST FRIEDRICH I.

Chapter II. -- MATINEES DU ROI DE PRUSSE.

Chapter III. -- KURFURST FRIEDRICH II.

Chapter IV. -- KURFURST ALBERT ACHILLES, AND HIS SUCCESSOR. JOHANN THE
CICERO IS FOURTH KURFURST, AND LEAVES TWO NOTABLE SONS.

Chapter V. -- OF THE BAIREUTH-ANSPACH BRANCH. TWO LINES IN CULMBACH OR
BAIREUTH-ANSPACH: THE GERA BOND OF 1598. THE ELDER LINE OF CULMBACH:
FRIEDRICH AND HIS THREE NOTABLE SONS THERE. FRIEDRICH'S SECOND SON,
MARGRAF GEORGE OF ANSPACH.

Chapter VI. -- HOCHMEISTER ALBERT, THIRD NOTABLE SON OF FRIEDRICH.

Chapter VII. -- ALBERT ALCIBIADES.

Chapter VIII. -- HISTORICAL MEANING OF THE REFORMATION.

Chapter IX. -- KURFURST JOACHIM I.

Chapter X. -- KURFURST JOACHIM II. JOACHIM GETS CO-INVESTMENT IN
PREUSSEN. JOACHIM MAKES "HERITAGE-BROTHERHOOD" WITH THE DUKE OF
LIEGNITZ.

Chapter XI. -- SEVENTH KURFURST, JOHANN GEORGE.

Chapter XII. -- OF ALBERT FRIEDRICH, THE SECOND DUKE OF PREUSSEN. OF
DUKE ALBERT FRIEDRICH'S MARRIAGE: WHO HIS WIFE WAS, AND WHAT HER
POSSIBLE DOWRY. MARGRAF GEORGE FRIEDRICH COMES TO PREUSSEN TO
ADMINISTER.

Chapter XIII. -- NINTH KURFURST, JOHANN SIGISMUND. HOW THE CLEVE
HERITAGE DROPPED, AND MANY SPRANG TO PICK IT UP. THE KAISER'S THOUGHTS
ABOUT IT, AND THE WORLD'S.

Chapter XIV. -- SYMPTOMS OF A GREAT WAR COMING. FIRST SYMPTOM;
DONAUWORTH, 1608. SYMPTOM THIRD: A DINNER-SCENE AT DUSSELDORF, 1613:
SPANIARDS AND DUTCH SHOULDER ARMS IN CLEVE. S