Bassoons and violins, striking up, whirl it off in universal dancing,--in "supper of above two hundred and sixty persons," princely or otherwise sublime in rank, with "spouses and noble ladies there" in the due proportion.

[Fassmann, pp.

432, 433.] Here is fraction of another Note from the Crown-Prince to his Sister at Baireuth, a fortnight after that event:-- BERLIN, 24th MARCH, 1732 (to Princess Wilhelmina) .-- ...

"God be praised that you are better, dearest Sister! For nobody can love you more tenderly than I do .-- As to the Princess of Bevern [my Betrothed], the Queen [Mamma, whom you have been consulting on these etiquettes] bids me answer, That you need not style her `Highness,' and that you may write to her quite as to an indifferent Princess.

As to 'kissing of the hands,' I assure you I have not kissed them, nor will kiss them; they are not pretty enough to tempt one that way.