Chapter I: Book III: The Hohenzollerns in Brandenburg. - 1412-1718

Chapter I. -- KURFURST FRIEDRICH I.

Chapter II. -- MATINEES DU ROI DE PRUSSE.

Chapter III. -- KURFURST FRIEDRICH II.

Chapter IV. -- KURFURST ALBERT ACHILLES, AND HIS SUCCESSOR. JOHANN THE CICERO IS FOURTH KURFURST, AND LEAVES TWO NOTABLE SONS.

Chapter V. -- OF THE BAIREUTH-ANSPACH BRANCH. TWO LINES IN CULMBACH OR BAIREUTH-ANSPACH: THE GERA BOND OF 1598. THE ELDER LINE OF CULMBACH: FRIEDRICH AND HIS THREE NOTABLE SONS THERE. FRIEDRICH'S SECOND SON, MARGRAF GEORGE OF ANSPACH.

Chapter VI. -- HOCHMEISTER ALBERT, THIRD NOTABLE SON OF FRIEDRICH.

Chapter VII. -- ALBERT ALCIBIADES.

Chapter VIII. -- HISTORICAL MEANING OF THE REFORMATION.

Chapter IX. -- KURFURST JOACHIM I.

Chapter X. -- KURFURST JOACHIM II. JOACHIM GETS CO-INVESTMENT IN PREUSSEN. JOACHIM MAKES "HERITAGE-BROTHERHOOD" WITH THE DUKE OF LIEGNITZ.

Chapter XI. -- SEVENTH KURFURST, JOHANN GEORGE.

Chapter XII. -- OF ALBERT FRIEDRICH, THE SECOND DUKE OF PREUSSEN. OF DUKE ALBERT FRIEDRICH'S MARRIAGE: WHO HIS WIFE WAS, AND WHAT HER POSSIBLE DOWRY. MARGRAF GEORGE FRIEDRICH COMES TO PREUSSEN TO ADMINISTER.

Chapter XIII. -- NINTH KURFURST, JOHANN SIGISMUND. HOW THE CLEVE HERITAGE DROPPED, AND MANY SPRANG TO PICK IT UP. THE KAISER'S THOUGHTS ABOUT IT, AND THE WORLD'S.

Chapter XIV. -- SYMPTOMS OF A GREAT WAR COMING. FIRST SYMPTOM; DONAUWORTH, 1608. SYMPTOM THIRD: A DINNER-SCENE AT DUSSELDORF, 1613: SPANIARDS AND DUTCH SHOULDER ARMS IN CLEVE. SYMPTOM FOURTH, AND CATASTROPHE UPON THE HEELS OF IT. WHAT BECAME OF THE CLEVE-JULICH HERITAGE, AND OF THE PREUSSEN ONE.

Chapter XV. -- TENTH KURFURST, GEORGE WILHELM.