accidental patch of water; ruffled bog-water, in sad twilight, and
with sedges and twigs intervening; but under these conditions we
do look with our own eyes!

Could not one, by any conceivable method, interpret into
legibility this abstruse dull Document; and so pick out here and
there a glimpse, actual face-to-face view, of Crown-Prince
Friedrich in his light-gray frock with the narrow silver tresses,
in his eclipsed condition there in the Custrin region? All is very
mysterious about him; his inward opinion about all manner of
matters, from the GNADENWAHL to the late Double-Marriage Question.
Even his outward manner of life, in its flesh-and-blood
physiognomy,--we search in vain through tons of dusty lucubration
totally without interest, to catch here and there the corner of a
feature of it. Let us try Schulenburg. We shall know at any rate
that to Grumkow, in the Autumn 1731, these words were luculent and
significant: consciously they tell us something of young
Friedrich; unconsciously a good deal of Lieutenant-General
Schulenburg, who with his strict theologies, his military
stiffnesses, his reticent, pipe-clayed, rigorous and yet human
ways, is worth looking at, as an antique species extinct in our
time. He is just home from Vienna, getting towards his own
domicile from Berlin, from Custrin, and has seen the Prince.
He writes in a wretched wayside tavern, or post-house, between
Custrin and Landsberg,--dates his letter "WIEN (Vienna)," as if he
were still in the imperial City, so off-hand is he.

No. 1. TO HIS EXCELLENZ (add a shovelful of other titles)
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL HERR BARON VON GRUMKOW, PRESIDENT OF THE
KRIEGES- UND DOMANEN-DIRECTORIUM, OF THE (in fact, Vice-President