Part 42

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.