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MORE OR LESS ILLUMINATIVE WHEN REDUCED TO ORDER Chapter X. DEMON NEWSWRITER, OF 1752 A DEMON NEWSWRITER GIVES AN "IDEA" OF FRIEDRICH; INTELLIGIBLE TO THE KNOWING CLASSES IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE Chapter XI. THIRD ACT AND CATASTROPHE OF THE VOLTAIRE VISIT "ANSWER FROM [VERY PRIVATELY VOLTAIRE, CALLING HIMSELF] A BERLIN ACADEMICIAN TO A PARIS ONE. Chapter XII. OF THE AFTERPIECE, WHICH PROVED STILL MORE TRAGICAL PART I. FREDERSDORF SENDS INSTRUCTIONS; THE "OEUVRE DE POESIE" IS GOT; BUT-- PART II. VOLTAIRE, IN SPITE OF HIS EFFORTS, DOES GET AWAY (June 20th-July 7th) Chapter XIII. ROMISH-KING QUESTION; ENGLISH-PRIVATEER QUESTION Chapter XIV. THERE IS LIKE TO BE ANOTHER WAR AHEAD Chapter XV.--ANTI-PRUSSIAN WAR-SYMPTOMS: FRIEDRICH VISIBLE FOR A MOMENT "EXTRACTUS PROTOCOLLORUM IN INQUISITIONS-SACHEN,"--THAT IS TO SAY, EXTRACT OF PROTOCOLS IN INQUEST "CONTRA FRIEDRICH WILHELM MENZEL AND JOHANN BENJAMIN ERFURTH." FRIEDRICH IS VISIBLE, IN HOLLAND, TO THE NAKED EYE, FOR SOME MINUTES (June 23d, 1755). Book XVII--THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR: FIRST CAMPAIGN--1756-1757. Chapter I.--WHAT FRIEDRICH HAD READ IN THE MENZEL DOCUMENTS. HOW FRIEDRICH DISCOVERED THE MYSTERY. CONCERNING MENZEL AND WEINGARTEN. Chapter II.--ENGLISH DIPLOMACIES ABROAD, IN PROSPECT OF A FRENCH WAR. THE TRIUMPHANT HANBURY TREATY BECOMES, ITSELF, NOTHING OR LESS;--BUT PRODUCES A FRIEDRICH TREATY, FOLLOWED BY RESULTS WHICH SURPRISE EVERYBODY. THERE HAS BEEN A COUNTER-TREATY GOING ON AT VERSAILLES IN THE INTERIM; WHICH HEREUPON STARTS OUT, AND TUMBLES THE WHOLLY ASTONISHED EUROPEAN DIPLOMACIES HEELS-OVER-HEAD. Chapter III.--FRENCH-ENGLISH WAR BREAKS OUT. KING FRIEDRICH'S ENIGMA GETS MORE AND MORE STRINGENT. Chapter IV.--FRIEDRICH PUTS A QUESTION AT VIENNA, TWICE OVER. THE MARCH INTO SAXONY, IN THREE COLUMNS. Chapter V.--FRIEDRICH BLOCKADES THE SAXONS IN PIRNA COUNTRY. Chapter VI.--BATTLE OF LOBOSITZ. Chapter VII.--THE SAXONS GET OUT OF PIRNA ON DISMAL TERMS. Chapter VIII.--WINTER IN DRESDEN. BOOK XVIII.--SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT.--1757-1759. Chapter I.--THE CAMPAIGN OPENS. REICH'S THUNDER, SLIGHT SURVEY OF IT; WITH QUESTION, WHITHERWARD, IF ANY-WHITHER. FRIEDRICH SUDDENLY MARCHES ON PRAG. Chapter II.--BATTLE OF PRAG. Chapter III.--PRAG CANNOT BE GOT AT ONCE. COLONEL MAYER WITH HIS "FREE- CORPS" PARTY MAKES A VISIT, OF DIDACTIC NATURE, TO THE REICH. OF THE SINGULAR QUASI-BEWITCHED CONDITION OF ENGLAND; AND WHAT
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