APPENDIX.




This Piece, it would seem, was translated sixteen years ago;
some four or five years before any part of the present HISTORY OF
FRIEDRICH got to paper. The intercalated bits of Commentary were,
as is evident, all or mostly written at the same time:--these also,
though they are now become, in parts, SUPERFLUOUS to a reader that
has been diligent, I have not thought of changing, where not
compelled. Here and there, especially in the Introductory Part,
some slight additions have crept in;--which the above kind of
reader will possibly enough detect; and may even have, for friendly
reasons, some vestige of interest in assigning to their new date
and comparing with the old. (NOTE OF 1868.)



A DAY WITH FRIEDRICH.
(23d July, 1779.)

"OBERAMTMANN (Head-Manager) Fromme" was a sister's son of Poet,
Gleim,--Gleim Canon of Halberstadt, who wrote Prussian "grenadier-
songs" in, or in reference to, the Seven-Years War, songs still
printed, but worth little; who begged once, after Friedrich's
death, an OLD HAT of his, and took it with him to Halberstadt
(where I hope it still is); who had a "Temple-of-Honor," or little
Garden-house so named, with Portraits of his Friends hung in it;
who put Jean Paul VERY SOON there, with a great explosion of