Consider what that peat is made of, O celebrated or uncelebrated reader, and take a moral from Jordan's Book! Other merit, except indeed clearness and commendable brevity, the _Voyage Litteraire_ or other little Books of Jordan's have not now.

A few of his Letters to Friedrich, which exist, are the only writings with the least life left in them, and this an accidental life, not momentous to him or us.

Dryasdust informs me, "Abbe Jordan, alone of the Crown-Prince's cavaliers, sleeps in the Town of Reinsberg, not in the Schloss:" and if I ask, Why ?--there is no answer.

Probably his poor little Daughterkin was beside him there ?-- We have to say of Friedrich's Associates, that generally they were of intelligent type, each of them master of something or other, and capable of rational discourse upon that at least.

Integrity, loyalty of character, was indispensable; good humor, wit if it could be had, were much in request.