may almost safely be pronounced that he never failed to
see or to profit by the slip of his adversary; to say that he never,
seldom, made slips himself, would be very wide of the truth. In fact, he
was not always a safe leader. Circumspect enough to see when his
antagonist failed, he took a very narrow, or very one-sided, view of his
own risks. Bold to rashness, hasty in his resolutions, quick in all his
thoughts and all his movements, he was often in dangers wholly needless to
be encountered; and though he would occasionally, by desperate courses,
escape beyond all calculation from risks, both inevitable and of his own
seeking, he could not be called a successful advocate."--_Article on_ LORD
WYNFORD, _No. III., Law Review._

[16] Correspondence between Count MUeNSTER and the Baron VON STEIN, in vol.
ii. of the _Lebensbilder aus dem Befreiungskriege_, Jena: 1841.

Letters of Baron STEIN to Baron GAGERN, in Von Gagern's _Antheil an der
Politik_, vol. iv. Stuttgart and Tuebingen: 1833.

[17] Besides the correspondence of Muenster and Gagern, which refer only to
the latter part of Stein's life, from 1811 to his death, we have only a
notice in the _Conversations Lexikon_, and a short biographical sketch by
Arndt, (the Baron's secretary,) appended to his _Erinnerungen_, (Leipsig,
1840,) to guide us in the early part of Stein's career. There are some
notices in the body of _Arndt's Reminiscences_, in Varnhagen's Memoirs,
and in some others, none of which, however, go further back than the year
1811.

[18] _In Prag halten sich die staerksten Maechte und Autriche zum Hassen
gegen Napoleon Zugammengehaeuft._--VARNHAGEN VON ENSE, iii. 195, first
edition.

[19] "_Donnerschwangere Fulgurationer._"--HORMAYR, in the _Lebensbilder_,
i. 63.

[20] SCHARNHORST, Count DOHNA, and President VON SCHOEN, mentioned by
Stein in a previous letter not translated.

[21] _Essai sur les Fictions._

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