Prince von Mirow was here yesterday; and tried shooting at the popinjay with us; he cannot see rightly, and shoots always with help of an opera-glass." "RUPPIN, 20th OCTOBER, 1737.

The Prince of Mirow was with us last Friday; and babbled much in his high way; among other things, white-lied to us, that the Kaiserinn gave him a certain porcelain snuff-box he was handling; but on being questioned more tightly, he confessed to me he had bought it in Vienna." [_Briefe an Vater,_ p.

71 (CARET in _OEuvres_ ); pp.

85-114 .-- See Ib.

6th November, 1737, for faint trace of a visit; and 25th September, 1739, for another still fainter, the last there is.] And so let him somnambulate yonder, till the two Queens, like winged Psyches, one after the other, manage to emerge from him.
Friedrich's Letters to his Father are described by some Prussian Editors as "very attractive, SEHR ANZIEHENDE BRIEFE;" which, to a Foreign reader, seems a strange account of them.