The trouble Friedrich took with his Opera, with his Dancing-Apparatus, French Comedy, and the rest of that affair, was very great.

Much greater, surely, than this Editor would have thought of taking; though, on reflection, he does not presume to blame.

The world is dreadfully scant of worshipable objects: and if your Theatre is your own, to sweep away intrusive nonsense continually from the gates of it?
Friedrich's Opera costs him heavy sums (surely I once knew approximately what, but the sibylline leaf is gone again upon the winds!)--and he admits gratis a select public, and that only.

[Preuss, i.

277; and Preuss, _Buch fur Jedermann,_ i.