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German Problems and Personalities

BY

CHARLES SAROLEA

LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1917

_All rights reserved_


[Illustration: Charles Sarolea]


CONTENTS


CHAPTER                                                   PAGE

INTRODUCTION                                                1

I. AN AMERICAN PREFACE                                      7

II. MY FORECASTS OF 1906 AND 1912                          12

III. THE CURSE OF THE HOHENZOLLERN                         53

IV. THE GERMAN WAR-TRIUMVIRATE                             85
  (i.) Nietzsche.
  (ii.) Montaigne and Nietzsche.
  (iii.) Treitschke.
  (iv.) Bernhardi.

V. FREDERICK THE GREAT                                    136

VI. THE APOTHEOSIS OF GOETHE                              142

VII. THE SERVICE OF THE CITY IN GERMANY                   148

VIII. THE NEGLECT OF GERMAN                               159

IX. MECKLENBURG, THE PARADISE OF PRUSSIAN JUNKERTHUM      164

X. THE GERMAN RACE HERESY AND THE WAR                     169

XI. A SLUMP IN GERMAN THEOLOGY                            183

XII. THE GERMAN ENIGMA                                    189

XIII. THE TRAGIC ISOLATION OF GERMANY                     196

XIV. RUSSIA AND GERMANY                                   203

XV. THE PEACEMAKER OF GERMANY: PRINCE VON BUeLOW           218

XVI. THE SILENCE OF HERR V