His only newspaper, beside the little local one, is the Kreuzzentung, he is learned in the Army List, and the writing-table at which I am sitting is strewed with volumes of the Almanac de Gotha.

He looks after his subjects--for I think he calls his workmen his subjects--in a truly fatherly or feudal manner, but I do not doubt that he would drive the best of them off the estate with dogs, if, even in the depth of winter, they did not stand hat in hand the whole time they were talking to him.

The sole problem of the universe which has any sort of interest for him is the outlook of the weather for the harvest.

The course of human or superhuman events arouses his wonder, his doubts, or his anxiety only in proportion as it affects the price of corn.

He cannot grasp that one should have any other aim in life than to become a successful agriculturist.