Chapter II: Book IV: Friedrich's Apprenticeship, First Stage. - 1713-1728

Chapter I. -- CHILDHOOD: DOUBLE EDUCATIONAL ELEMENT. FIRST EDUCATIONAL ELEMENT, THE FRENCH ONE.

Chapter II. -- THE GERMAN ELEMENT. OF THE DESSAUER, NOT YET "OLD."

Chapter III. -- FRIEDRICH WILHELM IS KING.

Chapter IV. -- HIS MAJESTY'S WAYS.

Chapter V. -- FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S ONE WAR. THE DEVIL IN HARNESS: CREUTZ THE FINANCE-MINISTER.

Chapter VI. -- THE LITTLE DRUMMER.

Chapter VII. -- TRANSIT OF CZAR PETER.

Chapter VIII. -- THE CROWN-PRINCE IS PUT TO HIS SCHOOLING.

Chapter IX. -- WUSTERHAUSEN.

Chapter X. -- THE HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS. OF KUR-PFALZ KARL PHILIP: HOW HE GOT A WIFE LONG SINCE, AND DID FEATS IN THE WORLD. KARL PHILIP AND HIS HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS. FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S METHOD;--PROVES REMEDIAL IN HEIDELBERG. PRUSSIAN MAJESTY HAS DISPLEASED THE KAISER AND THE KING OF POLAND.

Chapter XI. -- ON THE CROWN-PRINCE'S PROGRESS IN HIS SCHOOLING. THE NOLTENIUS-AND-PANZENDORF DRILL-EXERCISE.

Chapter XII. -- CROWN-PRINCE FALLS INTO DISFAVOR WITH PAPA.

Chapter XIII. -- RESULTS OF THE CROWN-PRINCE'S SCHOOLING.