Excerpt from The Real Crown Prince: A Record and an Indictment Some painters are fond Of depicting in a sym bolio fashion the fatal fascination Of military glory. We are shown the Spirit of Conquest, with a mocking smile on her lips, speeding on ahead, while there stumbles painfully behind her a motley crowd representing the varied elements of a great nation - labourers, poets, artists, savants, traders - all lured from their proper pur suits to follow this will-o'-the-wisp. Such a picture might well stand for modern Germany, and foremost among the pursuing host would assuredly be striding the strange, ominous figure of the heir to the Throne. The Crown Prince's face is almost that of a moral degenerate. The caricaturists have naturally seized on its ridiculous aspect, but this is misleading; it is really the sinister, predatory side which dominates the whole countenance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.