CHAPTER XIV.

Marie Antoinette Married to the French Dauphin Louis--Unsuspected Conditions--Joseph II.--Reforms by a Progressive Hapsburg are a Failure--Romanticism Replaces Sentimentalism in Literature--_Sturm und Drang_ Period--Luther's Influence upon Letters--Frederick Succeeded by his Nephew--Effect of Prussia's Ascendancy in the German Empire--Its Coming Dissolution--Why Patriotism Could Not Exist--The Calm before the Hurricane