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He was more of a soldier than a statesman had contributed very successfully to the formation of "United Italy" and the suppression of the Pope's temporal power, and was naturally not exactly persona grata to the Catholics in France. Prince and Princess Hohenlohe had succeeded Arnim at the German embassy.

But Arnim is still negative, still keeps the Bridge up. 'Your obstinate Town can be bombarded, then, cannot it? observed the Russian Messenger. 'Give us Free Withdrawal! proposes Amim. 'Go, oh, for the love of Heaven, go! cry all Official people.

So that all the people might know who you were and not say awful things about the 'infecte gouvernement' and the Republic, 'which no gentleman could serve." Arnim was an unfortunate appointment not at all the man for such a delicate situation. We had known him in Rome in the old days of Pio Nono's reign, where he had a great position as Prussian minister to the Vatican.

In him patriotism becomes chauvinism; love, philandering; and his age of chivalry, a thinly veiled and sentimental picture of his own times. The strength and the indigenousness of Arnim are gone, and that power to throw a Romantic glamor over life which Tieck and Hoffmann had, is lacking. Only in his charming fairy-tale, Undine , does Fouqué rise above his milieu.

"Sire," replied the Baron von Arnim, "they are the four persons who personate the role of court ladies and maids of honor to the queens and princesses. They beg your majesty to secure to them a fixed income." "Indeed! Go to my writing-table and bring paper and pencil; I will dictate a reply to them," said the king.

But one day she asked him why he never dedicated any of his compositions to her, whereupon he replied, "Why should I? Are not all my compositions dedicated to you?" This was as neat a compliment as Beethoven once made Frau von Arnim an incident which also gives us a glimpse of his manner of composing.

Within the Town stood Major Arnim, a Veteran of those parts, with 400 militia; these, with their muskets and with two cannon, are the only defence of Frankfurt, The Town has Gates; but its walls, I doubt, are mainly garden-walls and house-walls.

So it is known then that my soldiers will enter the great theatre of war, and that we are about to fight real battles." "It is known, sire," replied Von Arnim, bowing. "Then what I am about to communicate to you will not surprise you. The present juncture of affairs leads us to await very grave scenes we can well dispense with comedy.

His scholarly zeal, however, and his ability to sit for hours in close study, show how completely his mentality was adjustable to the German manner. In Berlin he was accepted by the younger Romantic group and was a member of the famous North Star Club with Arnim and his set. In 1815-18 he made a trip around the world, and in later years devoted himself especially to the study of botany.

The only great minister with whom he can be compared, Richelieu, was at least frank and open towards friend and foe. Bismarck has never negotiated with any man, nor charged any man with an important measure, without becoming their ruin, or changed them into implacable enemies Savigny, Usedom, Arnim, Gortschakoff.