REICHENBACH AND GORLITZ; TO DAUN'S
ASTONISHMENT. FELDMARSCHALL DAUN AND THE REICHS ARMY TRY SOME SIEGE OF
DRESDEN (9th-16th November).

BOOK XIX.--FRIEDRICH LIKE TO BE OVERWHELMED IN THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR.--1759-
1760.

Chapter I.--PRELIMINARIES TO A FOURTH CAMPAIGN. OF THE SMALL-WAR IN
SPRING, 1759. THERE ARE FIVE DISRUPTIONS OF THAT GRAND CORDON (February-
April); AND FERDINAND OF BRUNSWICK FIGHTS HIS BATTLE OF BERGEN (April
13th).

Chapter II.--GENERAL DOHNA; DICTATOR WEDELL: BATTLE OF ZULLICHAU.
DICTATOR WEDELL FIGHTS HIS BATTLE (Monday, 23d July, 1759), WITHOUT
SUCCESS.

Chapter III.--FRIEDRICH IN PERSON ATTEMPTS THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM; NOT WITH
SUCCESS.

Chapter IV.--BATTLE OF KUNERSDORF.

Chapter V.--SAXONY WITHOUT DEFENCE: SCHMETTAU SURRENDERS DRESDEN. THE
"REICHS ARMY" 80 CALLED HAS ENTERED SAXONY, UNDER FINE OMENS; DOES SOME
FEATS OF SIEGING (August 7th-23d),--WITH AN EYE ON DRESDEN AS THE
CROWNING ONE. AUSTRIAN REICHS ARMY DOES ITS CROWNING FEAT (August 26th-
September 4th): DIARY OF WHAT IS CALLED THE "SIEGE" OF DRESDEN.

Chapter VI.--PRINCE HENRI MAKES A MARCH OF FIFTY HOURS; THE RUSSIANS
CANNOT FIND LODGING IN SILESIA. DAUN, SOLTIKOF AND COMPANY AGAIN HAVE A
COLLOQUY (Bautzen, September 15th); AFTER WHICH EVERYBODY STARTS ON HIS
SPECIAL COURSE OF ACTION. FRIEDRICH MANAGES (September 24th-October
24th) TO GET THE RUSSIANS SENT HOME; AND HIMSELF FALLS LAMED WITH GOUT.

Chapter VII.--FRIEDRICH REAPPEARS ON THE FIELD, AND IN SEVEN DAYS AFTER
COMES THE CATASTROPHE OF MAXEN.

Chapter VIII.--MISCELLANEA IN WINTER-QUARTERS, 1759-1760. SERENE HIGHNESS
OF WURTEMBERG, AT FULDA (November 30th, 1759), IS JUST ABOUT "FIRING
VICTORIA," AND GIVING A BALL TO BEAUTY AND FASHION, IN HONOR OF A
CERTAIN EVENT;--BUT IS UNPLEASANTLY INTERRUPTED. WHAT IS PERPETUAL
PRESIDENT MAUPERTUIS DOING, ALL THIS WHILE? IS HE STILL IN BERLIN; OR
WHERE IN THE UNIVERSE IS HE? ALAS, POOR MAUPERTUIS! GRAND FRENCH
INVASION-SCHEME COMES ENTIRELY TO WRECK (Quiberon Bay, 20th November,
1759): OF CONTROLLER-GENERAL SILHOUETTE, AND THE OUTLOOKS OF FRANCE,
FINANCIAL AND OTHER. FRIEDRICH, STRANGE TO SAY, PUBLISHES (March-June,
1760) AN EDITION OF HIS POEMS. QUESTION, "WHO WROTE Matinees du Roi de
Prusse?"--FOR THE SECOND, AND POSITIVELY THE LAST TIME. PEACE-
NEGOTIATIONS HOPEFUL TO FRIEDRICH ALL THROUGH WINTER; BUT THE FRENCH
WON'T. VOLTAIRE, AND HIS STYLE OF CORRESPONDING. VOLTAIRE ON FRIEDRICH,
TO DIFFERENT THIRD-PARTIES, DURING THIS