1736.
Chapter I. -- PRINCESS ELIZABETH CHRISTINA OF BRUNSWICK-BEVERN. WHO HIS
MAJESTY'S CHOICE IS; AND WHAT THE CROWN-PRINCE THINKS OF IT. DUKE OF
LORRAINE ARRIVES IN POTSDAM AND IN BERLIN. BETROTHAL OF THE CROWN-PRINCE
TO THE BRUNSWICK CHARMER, NIECE OF IMPERIAL MAJESTY, MONDAY EVENING,
10th MARCH, 1732.
Chapter II. -- SMALL INCIDENTS AT RUPPIN.
Chapter III. -- THE SALZBURGERS.
Chapter IV. -- PRUSSIAN MAJESTY VISITS THE KAISER.
Chapter V. -- GHOST OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE RISES; TO NO PURPOSE. SESSION
OF TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT, 6th DECEMBER, 1732.
Chapter VI. -- KING AUGUST MEDITATING GREAT THINGS FOR POLAND.
Chapter VII. -- CROWN-PRINCE'S MARRIAGE.
Chapter VIII. -- KING AUGUST DIES; AND POLAND TAKES FIRE. POLAND HAS TO
FIND A NEW KING. OF THE CANDIDATES; OF THE CONDITIONS. HOW THE ELECTION
WENT. POLAND ON FIRE; DANTZIG STANDS SIEGE.
Chapter IX. -- KAISER'S SHADOW-HUNT HAS CAUGHT FIRE. SUBSEQUENT COURSE
OF THE WAR, IN THE ITALIAN PART OF IT. COURSE OF THE WAR, IN THE GERMAN
PART OF IT.
Chapter X. -- CROWN-PRINCE GOES TO THE RHINE CAMPAIGN. GLIMPSE OF
LIEUTENANT CHASOT, AND OF OTHER ACQUISITIONS. CROWN-PRINCE'S VISIT TO
BAIREUTH ON THE WAY HOME.
Chapter XI. -- IN PAPA'S SICK-ROOM; PRUSSIAN INSPECTIONS: END OF WAR.
BOOK X. -- AT REINSBERG. - 1736-1740.
Chapter I. -- MANSION OF REINSBERG. OF MONSIEUR JORDAN AND THE LITERARY
SET.
Chapter II. -- OF VOLTAIRE AND THE LITERARY CORRESPONDENCES.
Chapter III. -- CROWN-PRINCE MAKES A MORNING CALL.
Chapter IV. -- NEWS OF THE DAY. OF BERG AND JULICH AGAIN; AND OF
LUISCIUS WITH THE ONE RAZOR.
Chapter V. -- VISIT AT LOO. CROWN-PRINCE BECOMES A FREEMASON; AND IS
HARANGUED BY MONSIEUR DE BIELFELD. SECKENDORF GETS LODGED IN GRATZ. THE
EAR OF JENKINS RE-EMERGES.
Chapter VI. -- LAST YEAR OF REINSBERG; JOURNEY TO PREUSSEN. PINE'S
HORACE; AND THE ANTI-MACHIAVEL. FRIEDRICH IN PREUSSEN AGAIN; AT THE STUD
OF TRAKEHNEN. A TRAGICALLY GREAT EVENT COMING ON.
Chapter VII. -- LAST YEAR OF REINSBERG: TRANSIT OF BALTIMORE AND OTHER
PERSONS AND THINGS. BIELFELD, WHAT HE SAW AT REINSBERG AND AROUND. TURK
WAR ENDS; SPANISH WAR BEGINS. A WEDDING IN PETERSBURG.
Chapter VIII. -- DEATH OF FRIEDRICH WILHELM.
BOOK XI. -- FRIEDRICH TAKES THE REINS IN HAND. -- June-December, 1740.
Chapter I. -- PHENOMENA OF FRIEDRICH'S ACCESSION. FRIEDRICH WILL MAKE
MEN HAPPY: CORN-MAGAZINES. ABOLITION OF LEGAL TORTURE. WILL HAVE
PHILOSOPHERS ABOUT HIM, AND A REAL ACADEMY OF SCI
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