8vo.]--and this, of what flighty uncertain nature it is, the world partly knows.

A human Book, however, not a pedant one: there is a most shrill female soul busy with intense earnestness here; looking, and teaching us to look.

We find it a VERACIOUS Book, done with heart, and from eyesight and insight; of a veracity deeper than the superficial sort.

It is full of mistakes, indeed; and exaggerates dreadfully, in its shrill female way; but is above intending to deceive: deduct the due subtrahend,--say perhaps twenty-five per cent, or in extreme cases as high as seventy-five,--you will get some human image of credible actualities from Wilhelmina.
Practically she is our one resource on this matter.

Of the strange King Friedrich Wilhelm and his strange Court, with such an Heir-Apparent growing up in it, there is no real light to be had, except what Wilhelmina gives,--or kindles dark Books of others into giving.