Austrians, and gradually by all the world." [Seyfarth, ii. 543.]

The second fact is: That Herr Guichard (Author of that fine Book on
the War-methods of the Greeks and Romans) is still about Friedrich,
as he has been for above a year past, if readers remember;
and, during those tedious weeks, is admitted to a great deal of
conversation with the King. Readers will consent to this Note on
Guichard; and this shall be our ultimatum on the wearisome Three
Months at Landshut.

MAJOR QUINTUS ICILIUS. "Guichard is by birth a Magdeburger, age now
thirty-four; a solid staid man, with a good deal of hard faculty in
him, and of culture unusual for a soldier. A handy, sagacious,
learned and intelligent man; whom Friedrich, in the course of a
year's experience, has grown to see willingly about him. There is
something of positive in Guichard, of stiff and, as it were,
GRITTY, which might have offended a weaker taste; but Friedrich
likes the rugged sense of the man; his real knowledge on certain
interesting heads; and the precision with which the known and the
not rightly known are divided from one another, in Guichard.

"Guichard's business about the King has been miscellaneous, not
worth mention hitherto; but to appearance was well done. Of talk
they are beginning to have more and more; especially at Landshut
here, in these days of waiting; a great deal of talk on the Wars of
the Ancients, Guichard's Book naturally leading to that subject.
One night, datable accidentally about the end of May, the topic
happened to be Pharsalia, and the excellent conduct of a certain
Centurion of the Tenth Legion, who, seeing Pompey's people about to
take him in flank, suddenly flung himself into oblique order