Chapter 33

Those strenuous times are long over, and if strenuous times have yet to come they will find the Emperor alert and knowing better how to deal with them. He has, one may be sure, no thoughts of well-earned rest or dignified repose--he probably never will, with his strong conception of duty and his interest in the fortunes of his Empire. Still, he is a good deal changed. Time has taught him more than his early tutor, worthy Dr. Hinzpeter, ever taught him; and if his spring was boisterous, and his summer gusty and uncertain, a mellow autumn gives promise of a hale and kindly winter.

INDEX

Abdul Aziz, 259.

Absolutism, 2, 295, 368 _seq_.

Accession, date, I; period, 69 _seq_.

Achilleion, 317.

Aegir, Song to, 224.

Agadir, 264 _seq_.

Alexandra, Queen, 327.

Algeciras Conference, 261 _seq_.; Act of, 262.

Alsace-Lorraine, 84 _seq_.

America, art exhibition, 222; Germany and, 238; Frederick the Great and, 242; squadron at Kiel, 244; commercial relations with, 331, 380 _seq_.

Anarchism, 42 _seq_.

Anglo-French Agreement, 1904, 259 _seq_.

Anglo-German Agreement, 1890, 140; 1904, 335; relations, 4-7, 243, 282, 335 _seq_.

Anglo-Japanese Agreement, 201.

Anti-Semites, 178.

Arbitration, compulsory, 340.

Aristocracy, German, 114.

Armament, limitation of, 340.

Army, accession speech to, 69; importance of, 71; true character of, 285; Emperor and, 294.

Art, Emperor on, 202, 205 _seq_.; speech to sculptors, 207; German ideals, 218.

Attempt on, Emperor, 202; on William I, 42.

Augusta, Empress, wife of William I, 43, 45.

Auguste, Victoria, present Empress, 37 _seq_.

"Babel und Bibel," 246.

Baghdad railway, 200.

Balkans, 339.

Ballin, 367.

Battenberg affair, 55.

Bebel, August, 58, 90, 359. _See_ Social Democracy

Bennigsen, von, 13.

Berlin palace (Schloss), 114.

Bethmann Hollweg, 322 _seq_.

Biedermeier time, 167.

Bismarck, 13; Empress Fred. and, 44; William I and, 43 _seq_.; on Divine Right, 60 _seq_.; on foreign policy, 76; resignation, 104,133; Emperor and, 49, 131; "blood and iron" speech, 128; Emperor's account of quarrel with, 135; journey to Vienna, 141; death, 143.

"Bloc" party, 281, 288, 322.

Boer war, German policy and, 156, 303.

Bonn, Emperor at, 29; address at, 203.

Borussia, 30, 36, 203.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 329.

Boulanger, 52, 76.

Boxer troubles, 46, 194 _seq_.

Brandon, 338.

"Brilliant second" speech, 279.

Brooks, Sydney, 361.

Bülow, Prince von, 47; succeeds Hohenlohe, 187; fainting fit, 322; resignation, 322.

Burgess, Prof., 241.

Butler, Dr. Nicholas Murray, 272.

Byzantinism, 121 _seq_.

Cadinen, 334.

Camarilla, 277

Caprivi, von, 141; treaties, 141, 152 _seq_.; chancellorship, 151.

Caroline Islands, 151.

Casablanca, 264.

Centrum, 3, 280.

Chamberlain, Mr., 158, 258.

Chamberlain, Stewart, 348.

Chancellor, "responsibility," 289 _seq_.

China, relations with, 193; Boxer indemnity, 197.

Chun, Prince, 197 _seq_.

Churchill, Winston, 337.

Colonial development, 148 _seq_.

Commercial treaties, 152; American, 331.

Conscription, 191.

Constitution, German and British compared, 57.

Corps, student, 30 _seq_.

Crefeld, 278.

Crown Prince, 14, 18; income, 112; marriage, 270; Indian tour, 328; at English coronation, 339; in aeroplane, 359.

Court, comparison with English, 109; nobility, 113.

Cowes, 75.

_Daily Telegraph_, interview, 302 _seq_.; text of, 304; Bülow and, 311 _seq_.; Emperor's undertaking, 310.

Delcassé, 261, 282.

Delitzsch, Prof., 246.

Dewey, Admiral, 170.

Dictator Paragraph, 86.

Diedrich, Admiral, 170.

Dingley tariff, 331.

Disarmament, 317.

Divine Right, 331 _seq_.

Dreibund, _see_ Triple Alliance.

Dreyfus case, 178.

Dual Alliance. (Germany and Austria), 79; (Russia and France), 141.

Duel, _see_ Mensur.

Dynasty, _see_ Hohenzollern.

Education, Emperor on, 98 _seq_.

Edward VII, at Kiel, 253; visits Berlin, 323; funeral, 327.

Elector, Great, 64, 72.

Emperor, birth, 12; marriage, 37; brothers and sisters, 18; offspring, 40; first visit England, 20; at Bonn, 29; on Art, 207; and theatre, 355; on religion, 246; character, 363 _seq_.; and people, 368, 372.

Empress, present, marriage, 37; character, 39.

Farmer, Emperor as, 334.

Finance reform, 321.

Fleet, English, at Kiel, 253; American, 244. _See_ Navy.

Flora bust, 324 _seq_.

Foreign policy, in Orient, 199 _seq_.; Emperor's, 269.

France, and Germany, 51; Franco-German Agreement, 1911, 266.

Frankfort, treaty of, 153.

Frederick the Great, death, 120; tomb, 121; and navy, 167; statue, 242; Emperor and, 251.

Frederick III, 14; as Crown Prince, 45; last illness, 54.

Frederick, Empress, 15 _seq_.; Bismarck and, 44; death, 204.

Future, "Our future lies on the water," 203.

General Elections, 280, 333.

"Germans to the Front," 245.

Germany, "Greater," 146; to-day, 366; foreign policy, 199, 269.

George V, 174, 237, 339.

George, Lloyd, speech, 336.

Goluchowski, Count, 279.

Goschen, Lord, 160.

Government, dynastic not democratic, 56 _seq_.

Great Elector, Emperor and, 72; German navy and, 166.

Grey, Sir Edward, 338.

Grieg, composer, 225; death, 287.

Griscom, ambassador, 319.

Guelphs, 333.

Guildhall, speech at, 1891, 75; 1907, 283.

Hamburg-Amerika line, 367.

Hannover, 333.

Harvard University, 272.

Heine, 13, 374.

Heligoland, 150.

Henry, Prince, 18; sent Kiautschau, 165; visits America, 241.

Highcliffe Castle, 285.

Hill, Dr. D.J., 318 _seq_.

Hinzpeter, Dr., 287.

Hödel, attempt, 43.

Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prince, 47; character, 153; chancellor, 185; resigns, 187.

Hohenzollern, 2, 11, 17, 23, 41, 56, 72; Divine Right and, 62 _seq_., 332.

Iltis, gunboat, 195.

Italy, 261 _seq_.

Jameson raid, Emperor's telegram on, 154; date of, 159.

Jews, Emperor and, 378.

Journalists, attack on, 329.

Junker, 123.

Ketteler, von, murder of, 195.

Kiautschau, 145, 150.

Kiel, canal, 144; first regatta, do.; harbour, 168; American squadron at, 244; Edward VII at, 253.

Koenigsberg, speech at, 332.

Kruger, telegram, the, 154 _seq_.; European tour, 155.

_Kulturkampf_, Emperor and, 50.

Labourdonnais, 167.

Labour Party, 93.

Leoncavallo, 253.

Liberalism, Emperor and, 126.

Liman, Dr. Paul, 62, 360.

Limitation of armaments, 340.

List, Prof., 168.

Lloyd George, speech, 336.

Louise, Queen, 41.

Luderitz, 149.

Mackenzie, Sir Morell, 16, 54.

Madrid Convention, 263.

Magna Charta, Germany's, 1.

Mahan, Captain, 164.

Manila, 170.

Marakesch, 264.

Marble Palace, 118.

"March Days," 128 _seq_.

Mensur, 29 _seq_.

Menzel, painter, 179; death, 255.

Moabit riots, 329.

Mommsen, Emperor and, 251.

Monroe doctrine, 240.

Morocco, 255 _seq_.

Navy, German, First Navy Law, 145; Prince William and, 163; early history of, 166; auctioned, 168; early proposals, 169 _seq_.; legislative stages, 171; Grey's proposal, 317.

New Palace, Potsdam, 116.

Nobiling, attempt, 42, 90. "November Storm," 289 _seq_.

Open door, The, 257.

"Our future lies on the water," 203.

Oxford university, 284.

Palestine, 145; journey to, 176.

Panther, 264.

Parliament, introduction; parliamentary rule, 58; chancellor and, 291; Emperor and, 294; _See_ Reichstag.

"Personal regiment," 289, 296, 371.

Peters, Carl, 149.

"Place in the sun," 204.

Polypus, removed, 250.

Potsdam, 199.

Prussia, at Emperor's birth, 12; Diet, 293; electoral reform in, 316.

Quinquennat, 152.

Raid, Jameson, 159.

Rationalism, 344, 369.

Reaction, 123.

_Realpolitik_, see _Weltpolitik_; in sport, 357.

_Rechtstaat_, 369 _seq_.

Reichstag, introduction, 280, 292 333, 377.

Reinsurance treaty, 133.

Religion, Emperor on, 246.

Rhodes, Cecil, 284.

Richard, Prof., 370.

"Roland von Berlin," 253.

Roosevelt, Alice, 241; president, 253; visits Berlin, 325 _seq_.; professorships, 272.

Russia and Germany, relations, 80.

Russo-Japanese war, 252.

Saladin, 177.

Samoa, 151.

Sans Souci, 119, 179.

Sardanapalus, 235.

Septennat, 53, 152.

Seymour, Admiral, 195.

Shimonoseki, treaty of, 193.

"Shining armour," 328.

Social Democracy, introduction; Emperor and, 87; history of, 89; programme, 91; causes of, 94. Socialist laws, 103, 279 _seq_.

Socialism, 92; _See_ Social Democracy.

Sport, in Germany, 357.

"Star of commerce," phrase, 165.

State, German interpretation of, 292.

Stein, Dr. Adolf, 158.

Stoessel, General, 195, 253.

Stone, Melville, 242.

Suffragettes, Emperor and, 332.

Sultan, promise to, 145, 177.

Swinemunde despatch, 244.

Taku Forts, 195.

Tangier, 256, 259; Emperor's speech at, 260, 268.

Theatre, Emperor on, 230; Germans and the, 254.

"Times," the, 297, 299, 301, 324.

Tirpitz, von, Admiral, 338.

Tower, ambassador, 318.

Trade Unionism, 92 _seq_.

Transvaal, 156 _seq_.; 303.

Tree, Sir Beerbohm, 287.

Treitschke, von, on Divine Right, 59; on Bismarck, 125.

Trench, Captain, 338.

Triple Alliance, Emperor on, 77; history of, 78; provisions, 79; renewals, 38, 339.

"Urias Letter," 142.

Universities, England and Germany compared, 98.

"Unser Fritz," 14.

Venezuela, 158, 239.

Victoria Louise, Princess, 333.

Victoria, Queen, 167; death, 201.

"Von Gottes Gnaden," 56 _seq_.;. doctrine to-day, 68.

Waldersee, Countess, 45; Count, 46, 196.

Weihaiwei, 194.

_Weltpolitik_, 51, 144; Bülow on, 147; open door and, 201; foreign policy and, 201, 192, 201, 203.

William I, career, 42; character, 43; death, 54; parliament and, 294.

Williams, George Valentine, 232.

Wyberg, Frank, 383.

Zeppelin, Count, 358.