being a quarter past seven, Duhan and the
domestics enter, there is family prayer,
Duhan reads a chapter, and all sing some
proper psalm or hymn. At a quarter to
eight all the domestics withdraw, and for the
next hour and a quarter Duhan is to read
with Fritz the gospel of the day; expounding
it a little, adducing the main points of
Christianity, questioning from Noltenius's
Catechism." At nine he brings my son down to
me; who goes to church, and dines along
with me," (at noon) " the rest of the day is
then his own. At half-past nine in the evening
he shall come and bid me good night.
Shall then go directly to his room; very
rapidly get off his clothes" (it is again and
again urged that he learn to dress and
undress with the utmost human speed) "wash
his hands, and so soon as that is done, Duhan
makes a prayer on his knees and sings a
hymn; all the servants being again there.
Instantly after which, my son shall get into
bed; shall be in bed at half-past ten."

On Monday, as on all week-days, he shall
be called at six; rise briskly, pray as on
Sunday, as rapidly as possible get on his
shoes and spatterdashes; also wash his face
and hands, but not with soap. Have his hair
combed out and queued, but not powdered;
breakfasting meanwhile on tea. All to be ended
before halt-past six. Then family prayers
until seven. From seven till nine history
with Duhan. Christian religion with
Noltenius till a quarter to eleven. Then Fritz
rapidly washes his face with water— hands
with soap and water; clean shirt, powders,
and puts on his coat; about eleven comes to
the king and stays with him till two,— dining
meanwhile. The king at Wusterhausen dines
under one of the four lime-trees set at the
four corners under the terraces, and falling
asleep afterwards bakes in the sun. At two
Fritz is in his own room, where Duhan takes
him upon the maps and geography till three
o'clock. From three to four Duhan treats of
morality. From four to five Duhan shall write
German letters with him, and see that he gets
a good style (which he never in the least did).
About five, Fritz shall wash his hands and go
to the king; ride out; divert himself in the
air and not in his room; and do what he
likes, if it is not against God. Subjects of
study varied with the days, but the days
were alike, except nearly a whole holiday on
Wednesday and a half-holiday on Saturday,
if the morning's repetition then showed
that the lessons of the week were properly
remembered.

The boy was volatile and had tastes of his
own. The ban upon Latin caused him to take
secret lessons, upon one of which his father
broke in big with wrath. The king bade his
tutors not to let him be so dirty, and as he grew
up to the German flute— on which also with his
mother's help he obtained secret lessons,
liked verses and story-books, disliked hunting,
and combed his hair in the French
fashion, like a cockatoo, the father became
stern. The cockatoo locks he inexorably
stood by to see clipped to the military
standard, as soon as the boy had received his
first commission in the Potsdam Grenadiers,—
small officer over the sons of Anak, diligently
gathered from all parts of Europe. The Czar
Peter sent one hundred and fifty man-
mountains yearly as Potsdam recruits, in exchange
for German manufacturers and traders. Then,
to the piping, fiddling, and belles lettres,
Fritz added light tendencies in the direction
of the free-thinker. Discrepancy of character
between the Crown Prince and his father,
became, every year, more painful in its
consequences. Yet, though the youth, who was
more familiar with French than German
books and thoughts, spelt à cette heure,
asteure, and displayed other ignorances, he
had really stored his mind with the results of
much lively perception, and even his worst
teaching had contained so much of the fact
that he was a realist even in his romance. He
had no fancy for clouds and nothingnesses. And
among the confused, hurtful elements of his
schooling, there was always, as we say, this
eminently salutary and most potent one, of
its being, in the gross, an apprenticeship to
Friedrich Wilhelm, the Rhadamanthine
Spartan king, who hates from his heart all
empty nonsense, and unveracity most of all.
Which one element, well aided by docility,
by openness and loyalty of mind, on the
pupil's part, proved at length sufficient to
conquer the others; as it were to burn up all
the others, and reduce their sour, dark smoke,
abounding everywhere, into flame and
illumination mostly. This radiant, swift-paced
son owed much to the surly, irascible, sure-
footed father that bred him.

Now, while Frederick was still very young,
a family scheme, dear to his mother's heart,
had been resolved upon by all parties
concerned — namely, a double marriage of
himself and his sister Wilhelmina, to a young
princess and prince of the House of Hanover,
and children of those parents who afterwards
became our George the Second and Queen
Caroline. To this project of marriage the
mother of Fritz clung with all a woman's
pertinacity; but the father of Fritz, dogged
man as he was, suffered much fooling upon
the subject. What discussion Friedrich
Wilhelm indulged in upon state affairs he
held with the men whom he admitted to
share with him his evening pipe and bitter
beer, in what Mr. Carlyle calls his Tobacco
Parliament. His Imperial Majesty, Kaiser
Karl the Sixth, head of the holy Romish
empire, was then leading a life of laborious
futility, stirring Europe with efforts, schemes
and adventures, that were not only profitless,
but for which he had, in the end, a heavy bill
to pay. These great abortive designs were
the shadows that he hunted, and the Kaiser's
Shadow Hunt occupies, from time to time, a
spectral place m Mr. Carlyle's history, for