Note 26 — Chapter III · GERMANS BECOME INTERESTED IN THE NEAR EAST

Cf. E. Lamy, “La France du Levant: Voyage de l’Empereur Guillaume II,” in Revue des deux mondes, Volume 150 (1898), pp. 880–911, Volume 151 (1899), pp. 315–348; E. Lewin, The German Road to the East (New York, 1917), pp. 105 et seq.; C. S. Hurgronje, The Holy War, Made in Germany (New York, 1915), pp. 70–71; The All Highest Goes to Jerusalem, being an English translation of a series of articles published in Le Rire (Paris) during 1898 (New York, 1917). In Germany the royal pilgrimage was intended to be taken seriously. Herr Heine, of the Munich Simplicissimus, was convicted of lèse majesté and imprisoned for six months for having published humorous cartoons of the Kaiser and his party on their travels. The Annual Register, 1898, pp. 255–258.