d one day get printed, and wander into these latitudes to be scanned
and scrutinized! Undoubtedly an intricate crabbed Document to us; but
then an indubitable one. Crown-Prince, Schulenburg himself, and the
actual figure of Time and Place, are here mirrored for us, with a
business sincerity, in the mind of Schulenburg,--as from an accidental
patch of water; ruffled bog-water, in sad twilight, and with sedges and
twigs intervening; but under these conditions we do look with our own
eyes!

Could not one, by any conceivable method, interpret into legibility this
abstruse dull Document; and so pick out here and there a glimpse, actual
face-to-face view, of Crown-Prince Friedrich in his light-gray frock
with the narrow silver tresses, in his eclipsed condition there in the
Custrin region? All is very mysterious about him; his inward
opinion about all manner of matters, from the GNADENWAHL to the late
Double-Marriage Question. Even his outward manner of life, in its
flesh-and-blood physiognomy,--we search in vain through tons of dusty
lucubration totally without interest, to catch here and there the corner
of a feature of it. Let us try Schulenburg. We shall know at any rate
that to Grumkow, in the Autumn 1731, these words were luculent and
significant: consciously they tell us something of young Friedrich;
unconsciously a good deal of Lieutenant-General Schulenburg, who
with his strict theologies, his military stiffnesses, his reticent,
pipe-clayed, rigorous and yet human ways, is worth looking at, as
an antique species extinct in our time. He is just home from Vienna,
getting towards his own domicile from Berlin, from Custrin, and has
seen the Prince. He writes in a wretched wayside tavern, or post-house,
between Custrin and Landsberg,--dates his letter "WIEN (Vienna)," as if
he were still in the imperial City, so off-hand is he.

No. 1. TO HIS EXCELLENZ (add a shovelful of other titles)
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL HERR BARON VON GRUMKOW, PRESIDENT OF THE KRIEGES-UND
DOMANEN-DIRECTORIUM, OF THE (in fact, Vice-President of the
Tobacco-Parliament) IN BERLIN.

"WIEN [properly Berlin-Landsberg Highway, other side of Custrin], 4th
October, 1731.

"I regret much to have missed the pleasure of seeing your Excellency
again before I left Berlin. I set off between seven and eight in the
morning yesterday, and got to Custrin [seventy miles or so] before
seven at night. But the Prince had gone, that day, to the Bailliage of
Himmelstadt" (u