She was much respected by her Husband, much loved indeed; and greatly mourned for by the poor man: the village Lutzelburg (Little-town), close by Berlin, where she had built a mansion for herself, he fondly named _ Charlottenburg _ (Charlotte's-town), after her death, which name both House and Village still bear.

Leibnitz found her of an almost troublesome sharpness of intellect; "wants to know the why even of the why," says Leibnitz.

That is the way of female intellects when they are good; nothing equals their acuteness, and their rapidity is almost excessive.

Samuel Johnson, too, had a young-lady friend once "with the acutest intellect I have ever known." On the whole, we may pronounce her clearly a superior woman, this Sophie Charlotte; notable not for her Grandson alone, though now pretty much forgotten by the world,--as indeed all things and persons have, one day or other, to be! A LIFE of her, in feeble watery style, and distracted arrangement, by one _ Erman,_ [Monsieur Erman, Historiographe de Brandebourg, _ Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire de Sophie Charlotte, Reine de Preusse, las dans les Seances, &c.

_ (1 vol.8vo, Berlin, 1801.)] a Berlin Frenchman, is in existence, and will repay a cursory perusal; curious traits of her, in still looser form, are also to be found in _ Pollnitz: _[Carl Ludwig Freiherr von Pollnitz, _ Memoiren zur Lebens-und Regierungs-Geschichte der vier letzten Regenten des Preussischen Staats _ (was published in French also), 2 vols.