by George Rawlinson Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford Canon of Canterbury Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of

PREFACE. The author of this series has made it his special object to confine himself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records, to historic truth. The na

Contents BOOK XXI.—AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF FRIEDRICH'S LIFE—1763-1786. Chapter I.—PREFATORY. Chapter II.—REPAIRING OF A RUINED PRUSSIA. LANDRATH NUSSLER

Contents BOOK XX.—FRIEDRICH IS NOT TO BE OVERWHELMED: THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR GRADUALLY ENDS—25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763. Chapter I.—FIFTH CAMPAIGN

Contents BOOK XIX.—FRIEDRICH LIKE TO BE OVERWHELMED IN THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR.—1759-1760. Chapter I.—PRELIMINARIES TO A FOURTH CAMPAIGN. OF THE SMALL-W

Contents BOOK XVIII.—SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT.—1757-1759. Chapter I.—THE CAMPAIGN OPENS. REICH'S THUNDER, SLIGHT SURVEY OF IT; WITH QUESTI

Contents Book XVII—THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR: FIRST CAMPAIGN.—1756-1757. Chapter I.—WHAT FRIEDRICH HAD READ IN THE MENZEL DOCUMENTS. HOW FRIEDRICH DISCOVER

Contents BOOK XVI.—THE TEN YEARS OF PEACE.—1746-1756 Chapter I.—SANS-SOUCI FRIEDRICH DECLINES THE CAREER OF CONQUERING HERO; GOES INTO LAW-REFORM; AND G

Contents BOOK XV.—SECOND SILESIAN WAR, IMPORTANT EPISODE IN THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE.—15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745. Chapter I.—PRELIMINARY: HOW TH

Contents BOOK XIV.—THE SURROUNDING EUROPEAN WAR DOES NOT END.—August, 1742-July, 1744. Chapter I.—FRIEDRICH RESUMES HIS PEACEABLE PURSUITS. SETTLES

Contents BOOK XIII. — FIRST SILESIAN WAR, LEAVING THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE ABLAZE ALL ROUND, GETS ENDED. — May, 1741-July, 1742. Chapter I. — BRITANNIC

Contents BOOK XII. — FIRST SILESIAN WAR, AWAKENING A GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE, BEGINS. — December, 1740-May, 1741. Chapter I. — OF SCHLESIEN, OR SILES

Contents BOOK XI. — FRIEDRICH TAKES THE REINS IN HAND. — June-December, 1740. Chapter I. — PHENOMENA OF FRIEDRICH'S ACCESSION. FRIEDRICH WILL MAKE ME

Contents BOOK X. — AT REINSBERG. - 1736-1740. Chapter I. — MANSION OF REINSBERG. OF MONSIEUR JORDAN AND THE LITERARY SET. Chapter II. — OF VOLT

Contents BOOK IX. — LAST STAGE OF FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP: LIFE IN RUPPIN. — 1732-1736. Chapter I. — PRINCESS ELIZABETH CHRISTINA OF BRUNSWICK-BEVERN.

Contents BOOK VIII. — CROWN-PRINCE REPRIEVED: LIFE AT CUSTRIN — November, 1730-February, 1732. Chapter I. — CHAPLAIN MULLER WAITS ON THE CROWN-PRINCE.

Contents BOOK VII. — FEARFUL SHIPWRECK OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT. — Feb.-Nov., 1730. Chapter I. — ENGLAND SENDS THE EXCELLENCY HOTHAM TO BERLIN.

Contents BOOK VI. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND CROWN-PRINCE, GOING ADRIFT UNDER THE STORM-WINDS. — 1727-1730. Chapter I. — FIFTH CRISIS IN THE KA

Contents BOOK V. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO. — 1723-1726. Chapter I. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE IS DECIDED ON. QUEEN SOPHIE DO

CHAPTER I. — CHILDHOOD: DOUBLE EDUCATIONAL ELEMENT. Of Friedrich's childhood, there is not, after all our reading, much that it would interest the English pub

Chapter I. — KURFURST FRIEDRICH I. Burggraf Friedrich, on his first coming to Brandenburg, found but a cool reception as Statthalter. ["Johannistage" (24 June

Contents BOOK II. — OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS. - 928-1417. Chapter I. — BRANNIBOR: HENRY THE FOWLER. Chapter II. — PREUSSEN: SAINT ADALBERT.

Chapter I. — PROEM: FRIEDRICH'S HISTORY FROM THE DISTANCE WE ARE AT. About fourscore years ago, there used to be seen sauntering on the terraces of Sans Souci