[Ib.

i.
108, 109; Pollnitz, ii.

254; Fassman, p.

374.] In those days, Carnival means "Fashionable Season," rural nobility rallying to head-quarters for a while, and social gayeties going on; and in Protestant Countries it means nothing more.
This, in substance, was the real origin of Friedrich Wilhelm's sudden visit to Dresden, which astonished the world, in January next.

It makes a great figure in the old Books.