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.