Translated from the German by Peter Langley

CONTENTS

FOREWORD
OLD FRITZ AND THE NEW ERA.
BOOK I. OLD FRITZ.
CHAPTER I. THE LONELY KING.
CHAPTER II. WILHELMINE ENKE.
CHAPTER III. FREDERICK WILLIAM.
CHAPTER IV. THE DRIVE TO BERLIN.
CHAPTER V. THE OATH OF FIDELITY.
CHAPTER VI. THE PARADE.
CHAPTER VII. THE MIRACULOUS ELIXIR.
CHAPTER VIII. THE GOLDEN RAIN.
CHAPTER IX. GERMAN LITERATURE AND THE KING.

BOOK II.ROSICRUCIANS AND POWERFUL GENIUSES
CHAPTER X. GOETHE IN BERLIN.
CHAPTER XI. THE INNER AND THE MIDDLE TEMPLE.
CHAPTER XII. THE JESUIT GENERAL
CHAPTER XIII. A PENSIONED GENERAL.
CHAPTER XIV. THE KING’S LETTER.
CHAPTER XV. HATE AND LOVE
CHAPTER XVI. CHARLES AUGUSTUS AND GOETHE.
CHAPTER XVII. GOETHE’S VISITS.
CHAPTER XVIII. FAREWELL TO BERLIN.

BOOK III. STORM AND PRESSURE
CHAPTER XIX. THE KING AND THE AUSTRIAN DIPLOMAT.
CHAPTER XX. THE KING AND THE LOVER.
CHAPTER XXI. IN WEIMAR.
CHAPTER XXII. THE READING.
CHAPTER XXIII. WITCHCRAFT
CHAPTER XXIV. THE PURSE-PROUD MAN.
CHAPTER XXV. THE ELOPEMENT.
CHAPTER XXVI. UNDER THE STARRY HEAVENS.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SACRIFICE.

BOOK IV. THE VISIBLES AND THE INVISIBLES.
CHAPTER XXVIII. OLD FRITZ.
CHAPTER XXIX. CAGLIOSTRO’S RETURN.
CHAPTER XXX. THE TRIUMVIRATE.
CHAPTER XXXI. FUTURE PLANS.
CHAPTER XXXII. MIRACLES AND SPIRITS.
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE RETURN HOME.
CHAPTER XXXIV. BEHIND THE MASK.
CHAPTER XXXV. THE CURSE.
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE KING AND THE ROSICRUCIANS.
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE ESPOUSALS.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. REVENGE FULFILLED.