It appears, this New Palace had been determined on before the War broke out; and Friedrich said to himself: "We will build it now, to help the mechanical classes in Berlin,--perhaps also, in part [think some, and why should not they, a little ?] to show mankind that we have still ready money; and are nothing like so ruined as they fancy." "This NEUE PALAIS," says one recent Tourist, "is a pleasant quaint object, nowadays, to the stranger.

It has the air DEGAGE POCOCURANTE; pleasantly fine in aspect and in posture;--spacious expanses round it, not in a waste, but still less in a strict condition; and (in its deserted state) has a silence, especially a total absence of needless flunkies and of gaping fellow-loungers, which is charming.

Stands mute there, in its solitude, in its stately silence and negligence, like some Tadmor of the Wilderness in small.

The big square of Stables, Coach-houses, near by, was locked up,--probably one sleeping groom in it.

The very CUSTOS of the grand Edifice (such the rarity of fees to him) I could not awaken without difficulty.