Freytag, _Neue Bilder aus dem Leben des deutschen Volkes_ (Leipzig, 1862), pp.

397-408.] These statements and pencillings of Freytag, apart from here and there a flourish of poetic sentiment, I believe my readers can accept as essentially true, and a correct portrait of the fact.

And therewith, CON LA BOCCA DOLCE, we will rise from this Supper of Horrors.

That Friedrich fortified the Country, that he built an impregnable Graudentz, and two other Fortresses, rendering the Country, and himself on that Eastern side, impregnable henceforth, all readers can believe.

Friedrich has been building various Fortresses in this interim, though we have taken no notice of them; building and repairing many things;--trimming up his Military quite to the old pitch, as the most particular thing of all.