• Chapter I. — PHENOMENA OF FRIEDRICH'S ACCESSION.
• FRIEDRICH WILL MAKE MEN HAPPY: CORN-MAGAZINES.
• ABOLITION OF LEGAL TORTURE.
• WILL HAVE PHILOSOPHERS ABOUT HIM, AND A REAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
• AND EVERY ONE SHALL GET TO HEAVEN IN HIS OWN WAY.
• FREE PRESS, AND NEWSPAPERS THE BEST INSTRUCTORS.
• INTENDS TO BE PRACTICAL WITHAL, AND EVERY INCH A KING.
• BEHAVIOR TO HIS MOTHER; TO HIS WIFE.
• NO CHANGE IN HIS FATHER'S METHODS OR MINISTRIES.
• Chapter II. — THE HOMAGINGS.
• FRIEDRICH ACCEPTS THE HOMAGES, PERSONALLY, IN THREE PLACES.
• Chapter III. — FRIEDRICH MAKES AN EXCURSION, NOT OF DIRECT SORT INTO THE CLEVE COUNTRIES.
• FRIEDRICH STRIKES OFF TO THE LEFT, AND HAS A VIEW OF STRASBURG FOR TWO DAYS.
• FRIEDRICH FINDS M. DE MAUPERTUIS; NOT YET M. DE VOLTAIRE.
• Chapter IV. — VOLTAIRE'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH FRIEDRICH.
• PARTICULARS OF FIRST INTERVIEW, ON SEVERE SCRUTINY.
• WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF THE INTERVIEW TWENTY YEARS AFTERWARDS
• WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF THE INTERVIEW AT THE TIME.
• Chapter V. — AFFAIR OF HERSTAL.
• HOW THE HERSTALLERS HAD BEHAVED TO FRIEDRICH WILHELM.
• FRIEDRICH TAKES THE ROD OUT OF PICKLE.
• WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF HERSTAL.
• Chapter VI. — RETURNS BY HANOVER; DOES NOT CALL ON HIS ROYAL UNCLE THERE.
• Chapter VII. — WITHDRAWS TO REINSBERG, HOPING A PEACEABLE WINTER.
• WILHELMINA'S RETURN-VISIT.
• UNEXPECTED NEWS AT REINSBERG.
• Chapter VIII. — THE KAISER'S DEATH.
• Chapter IX. — RESOLUTION FORMED AT REINSBERG IN CONSEQUENCE.
• MYSTERY IN BERLIN, FOR SEVEN WEEKS, WHILE THE PREPARATIONS GO ON; VOLTAIRE VISITS FRIEDRICH TO DECIPHER IT, BUT CANNOT.
• VIEW OF FRIEDRICH BEHIND THE VEIL.
• EXCELLENCY BOTTA HAS AUDIENCE; THEN EXCELLENCY DICKENS, AND OTHERS: DECEMBER 6th, THE MYSTERY IS OUT.
• MASKED BALL, AT BERLIN, 12th-13th DECEMBER.