# The Young Emperor, William II of Germany A Study in Character Development on a Throne

Author: Frederic, Harold, 1856-1898

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54989

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## Summary

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 assembled in National Convention, to select the twenty-third President of a great Republic, which also stood upon the threshold of its hundredth birthday. These were both suggestive facts, full of hopeful and inspiring thoughts to the serious mind. Considered together by themselves they seemed very eloquent proofs of the progress which Liberty, Enlightenment, the Rights of Man, and other admira...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XI--A YEAR WITHOUT BISMARCK](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-emperor-william-ii-of-germany-a-study-in-character-de-3ba8ace8/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.--THE FALL OF THE BISMARCKS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-emperor-william-ii-of-germany-a-study-in-character-de-3ba8ace8/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.--PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-emperor-william-ii-of-germany-a-study-in-character-de-3ba8ace8/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.--THE BEGINNINGS OF A BENEFICENT CHANGE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-emperor-william-ii-of-germany-a-study-in-character-de-3ba8ace8/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.--THROUGH THE SHADOWS TO THE THRONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-emperor-william-ii-of-germany-a-study-in-character-de-3ba8ace8/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.--UNDER THE SWAY OF THE BISMARCKS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-emperor-william-ii-of-germany-a-study-in-character-de-3ba8ace8/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.--THE TIDINGS OF FREDERIC’S DOOM](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-emperor-william-ii-of-germany-a-study-in-character-de-3ba8ace8/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.--THE SUPREMACY OF THE HOHENZOLLERNS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-emperor-william-ii-of-germany-a-study-in-character-de-3ba8ace8/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.--UNDER CHANGED INFLUENCES AT BONN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-emperor-william-ii-of-germany-a-study-in-character-de-3ba8ace8/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.--WILLIAM’S BOYHOOD](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-emperor-william-ii-of-germany-a-study-in-character-de-3ba8ace8/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.--A YEAR OF HELPFUL LESSONS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-emperor-william-ii-of-germany-a-study-in-character-de-3ba8ace8/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.--A YEAR OF EXPERIMENTAL ABSOLUTISM](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-emperor-william-ii-of-germany-a-study-in-character-de-3ba8ace8/chapters/8/index.md)