57 n.] We learn vaguely that the price of horse-flesh in Prag has risen to double; famine very sore: but still one hears nothing of surrender.

And again there is vague rumor that the City may be as it will; but that the Garrison has meal, after all we have ruined, which will last till October.

Such a Problem has this King: soluble within the time; or not soluble?
Such a question for the whole world, and for himself more than any.
MAP GOES IN HERE--fACING PAGE 446, BOOK xviii.