73-90, 91-109.]--altogether pleasant reading, should there still be curiosity upon it.

There is something of flowingly eloquent in Friedrich's account of this Battle waged against the inanimate Chaos; something of exultant and triumphant, not noticeable of him in regard to his other Victories.

On the Leuthens, Rossbachs, he is always cold as water, and nobody could gather that he had the least pleasure in recording them.

Not so here.

And indeed here he is as beautiful as anywhere; and the reader, as a general son of Adam,--proud to see human intellect and heroism slaying that kind of lions, and doing what in certain sad epochs is unanimously voted to be impossible and unattemptable,--exults along with him; and perhaps whispers to his own poor heart, nearly choked by the immeasurable imbroglio of Blue-books and Parliamentary Eloquences which for the present encumber Heaven and Earth, "MELIORA SPERO." To Mirabeau, the following details, from first-hand, but already of twenty-three years distance, were not known, [Appeared first in Tome v.