And does actually accomplish it, in the course of this Year 1751,--with a great deal of punctuality and severe painstaking; which readers of our day, fallen careless of the subject, are little aware of, on Voltaire's behalf.

Voltaire's reward was, that he did NOT go mad in that Berlin element, but had throughout a bower-anchor to ride by.

"The King of France continues me as Gentleman of the Chamber, say you; but has taken away my Title of Historiographer?
That latter, however, shall still be my function.

'My present independence has given weight to my verdicts on matters.

Probably I never could have written this Book at Paris.' A consolation for one's exile, MON ENFANT." [To Niece Denis (-- OEuvres,--lxxiv.