[ 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. ]

[ KING FRIEDRICH'S ENIGMA GETS MORE AND MORE STRINGENT. ]

[ THE MARCH INTO SAXONY, IN THREE COLUMNS. ]


[ 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. ]

[ 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 IS TO BE HOPED FROM IT FOR THE COMMON CAUSE, IF PRAG GO AMISS. ]
[ PHENOMENA OF PRAG SIEGE:—PRAG SIEGE IS INTERRUPTED. ]

[ THE MARIA-THERESA ORDER, NEW KNIGHTHOOD FOR AUSTRIA. ]

[ PRINCE AUGUST WILHELM FINDS A BAD PROBLEM AT JUNG-BUNZLAU; AND DOES IT BADLY: FRIEDRICH THEREUPON HAS TO RISE FROM LEITMERITZ, AND TAKE THE FIELD ELSEWHERE, IN BITTER HASTE AND IMPATIENCE, WITH OUTLOOKS WORSE THAN EVER. ]