Introduction: on the writing of history.--Frederick, the Great.--Baron vom Stein.--Bismarck.-- Stanley.--Peters.--Rhodes.--Wilson.-- Rathenau.--Lenin.--Leonardo da Vinci.--Shakespeare.--Rembrandt's self-portrait.--Voltaire in eighteen tableaux.--Lord Byron and Lassalle.--Goethe and Schiller.--Dehmel.--Balzac.--Portrait of an officer [Karl Gangolph von Sendler].
Introduction: on the writing of history.--Frederick, the Great.--Baron vom Stein.--Bismarck.-- Stanley.--Peters.--Rhodes.--Wilson.-- Rathenau.--Lenin.--Leonardo da Vinci.--Shakespeare.--Rembrandt's self-portrait.--Voltaire in eighteen tableaux.--Lord Byron and Lassalle.--Goethe and Schiller.--Deh...